Athletes
Subjects in the film include:
- Jenny Hinshaw: 38-year-old Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer survivor; Team in Training member
- Artie Elefant: 61-year-old blind athlete (retinitis pigmentosa); Achilles Track Club member
- Carrie Neveldine / Kellie Smirnoff: 35-year-old twins training for their first Ironman triathlon
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“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)