Edition 127

A long while ago, I wrote about how I look up to the Kenyan runner, Josephat Menjo, who ran 5K, 10K records on his own, without pacers, in one magical phase in 2010. Menjo is the sort of story that can lift me on quite dark days.

Last week on a run, my buddy H told him about this tennis player, Matija Pecotic, who realised a long-held dream of winning just 1 match on the ATP Tour. Here’s the amazing story. Read both the Feb 16th and Feb 15th articles by Peter Bodo.

There’s just no shortage of inspiration, if you look around, is there? What’s your favourite such story?

This week is a bonus and I am sending out 2 pieces within a week, as I can’t wait to tell you about this till next week. In any case, I am likely to be resting next week and off my computer as much as I can.