Running isn’t always a learned and practiced activity. Some people just have an innate talent for running. For those that are not quite so lucky practice, practice, and more practice are really the only things that can shorten a mile time. Read the full article here.

In the article “Running with the Gods” that Kit Fox wrote for the popular running magazine Runners’ World Fox explains that running with Olympians went from being a dream to a reality for some runners. If someone has enough passion and works adamantly achieving goals that seem incredibly far out of reach become attainable over time. This story follows ordinary people that managed to train hard and long and qualify for the Olympic trials.

This is important because it shows that anyone can achieve what most people would say is impossible. Very few people ever get their mile time down to an hour and 20 minutes for men and two hours and 45 minutes for women. The people that this article follows lead pretty normal everyday lives aside from running every chance that they get. The group contains an engineer, a professor, a mother, a video game designer, a geographic specialist and a medical director.

This article is especially inspiring because it makes examples out of each of these exemplary people set. They show that it is a choice they make every day to be extraordinary and chase their dream until they come across a new goal to conquer. Every day people can run with the gods if only they choose to lace up their shoes.

Read more about training for the olympics here.