The Joy of Zigzags

Mike Downey: I think one of the things that we miss as athletes is the simple joys of why are we doing this in the first place, right? If we all got in this just to win, none of us at this table would be in sport anymore. When I adopted these training practices, just going out and having a run, not having any predefined path, running over grass, running through trees, going through mud, it was so much fun," he says. "It became easy to be doing two-hour runs without even thinking about it or being unduly fatigued"