You Don't Have To Be Fast. But

...there Was Some Kind Of Connection Between The Capacity To Love And The Capacity To Love *running*. The Engineering Was Certainly The Same: Both Depended On Loosening Your Grip On Your Own Desires, Putting Aside What You Wanted And Appreciating What You've Got, Being Patient And Forgiving And... Undemanding...maybe We Shouldn't Be Surprised That Getting Better At One Could Make You Better At The Other.

Only Recently Have We Come Up With The Technology To Turn Lazing Around Into A Way Of Life. We've Taken Our Sinewy, Durable, Hunter-gatherer Bodies And Plunked Them Into An Artificial World Of Leisure.

We Run When We're Scared, We Run When We're Ecstatic, We Run Away From Our Problems And Run Around For A Good Time.

In 'tarahumara' Land, There Was No Crime, War Or Theft. There Was No Corruption, Obesity, Drug Addiction, Greed, Wife-beating, Child Abuse, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Or Carbon Emissions. They Didn't Get Diabetes, Or Depressed, Or Even Old: 50-year-olds Outran Teenagers.

We Are The Biggest Sissies In The Jungle. Every Other Animal Is Stronger Than We Are - They Have Fangs, They Have Claws, They Have Nimbleness, They Have Speed. We Think Usain Bolt Is Fast - Usain Bolt Can Get His Ass Kicked By A Squirrel.