Lighting Fires

Check out the above photograph from the Kenyan town of Iten, just sent to me by Dr. Randy Wilber, a senior sport physiologist at the U.S. Olympic Committee Performance Lab. In it, two elite Kenyan runners trailed by a little kid who's running to school.  It's a tiny moment, and yet one that helps explain why this relatively small place produces the vast majority of the world's great runners. As Wilber writes,

…it captures the "passing of the torch" from one generation of great runners to the...