Is There a Global or a Local Vision for Running?

I think about this a lot just based on my own trajectory through the sport of running and it is just like kind of global national and local kind of lens that we sometimes view ourselves in throughout. I was never good enough to be anywhere near an Olympic caliber runner so had I ever thought that that was a potential or someone had put that seat in my head at an early age it might have been so overwhelming that I gave up on the sport altogether versus kind of taking my experiences as they came then ultimately find ultra running. We've moved from a local world where like you when I was in middle school like I had no idea like all I knew was like here's how I compared to my buddies