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Think your brightroom photos are bad?  Check out this one:

That’s Jim Ryun in 1964 breaking the high school mile record with a time of 3:58.3 (click the image for more detail).  He later broke the world record in the mile and his high school record stood for 36 years.  In this month’s issue, Runner’s World did a piece on the “best of running,” in which they selected this as the best photo.  Running is a sport that doesn’t change much through the years and you don’t have to be a world class athlete to draw inspiration from the amazing feats of runners past.  There are a lot of classic moments in the history of the sport that capture the range of human emotion.  I’ll post some of my favorites (and feel free to post yours) but I thought I’d start with this one – pure agony, pure ecstacy.

-Matt

PS, if you are wondering where your IT band is, it’s that triangular one coming down from his shorts.