For all the finely engineered shoes they might wear, perhaps the special athlete also owns an explorer's mad spirit. Or at least a version of it. In Edward J. Larson's book, To The Edges Of The Earth, he writes about the great Arctic explorer Robert Peary who, even as his toes were amputated with "crude tools", wrote on a wall in Latin: "I shall find a way or make one."
It is what Kipchoge did.
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