There’s a moment right when you walk into Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first time where you just stop. I’ve been in rooms with movie premieres, film festival crowds, comic con floors packed shoulder to shoulder — but nothing quite prepares you for the scale of that stadium and the buzz radiating off 20,000 people who all showed up for the same reason: they wanted to see something they’d remember. This was my first US […]
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The Prefontaine Classic, From the Finish Line
I ran cross country in high school, along with the mile and the 800 on the track side. Nothing that made anybody’s highlight reel — just miles of pushing through the kind of pain that teaches you patience, and two distances that demand you know exactly how much of yourself to spend and exactly when to spend it. Go out too hot in the 800 and you’re paying for it the whole back half. Hold […]
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