In his foreword to Alex Hutchinson’s Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Endurance, the best-selling author and running enthusiast Malcolm Gladwell recounts two “superb” races he has run—one as a thirteen-year-old against boys two years older, and a personal-best five-kilometre race he ran at age fifty-one. He writes that in both…
Margaret Webb
Margaret Webb is a journalist, screenwriter, and author. Her recent book is a running memoir, Older, Faster, Stronger, published by Rodale Books.