A sprinter’s life is lived to a repetitive soundtrack. Tick, tick, tick. Human against clock. Feet versus time. They toil and grind and sweat because their life is devoted to a singular idea: Finding shards of a second. Flickers of time.
Like 0.01 of a second, says Shanti Pereira.
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