That is a really interesting thought. To me, this: > desperately running from some profound dislike of themselves sounds awfully close to a human universal. T

That is a really interesting thought. To me, this: > desperately running from some profound dislike of themselves sounds awfully close to a human universal. The folks in the article are literally running from the ordinary and I think part of what author is getting at here: > To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance. are the similarities they saw in the outlandish act of running around a city block for 52 days, 18 hours a day, and the ordinary experience of being alive and how the one illumines our understanding of the other.