brad m<p>“In <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/running" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>running</span></a>, unlike in team <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sports</span></a>, there are no substitutes for exhausted players. Nor are there machines to assist an aching body, as there are in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cycling</span></a>, or pauses built into the game. A <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/runner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>runner</span></a> must stay in constant motion, pushing her body to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/run" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>run</span></a> farther than the average person can fathom” <br>“The successful distance <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/runner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>runner</span></a> is thus a paradox: a person blessed with godlike <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/endurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endurance</span></a> and a baffling insensitivity to pain, who nonetheless … is just like us” <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/185452/paradox-distance-runner-women-books" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/185452</span><span class="invisible">/paradox-distance-runner-women-books</span></a></p>