“No one can say ‘you must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.”
(Sir Roger Bannister, first person to run a sub 4-min mile)
They say the greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. There’re so many examples of that in running – of people who’ve set their goals higher than people have thought possible, and dared to achieve them.
Over the next while I’ll be profiling famous trail runners who’ve achieved seemingly impossible things and shown that by believing they could, they did.