Archive For June 14, 2026
When sports scientists first heard about the Tendai Marathon Monks, they assumed the reports was exaggerated folklore. [The way sports scientists do.] So, in 2011, a team from Stanford flew to Mount Hiei to document the damage. They expected to find knees ground down to bone. Hips riddled with arthritis. Ankles held together by scar tissue.
She’s on the sixth floor and I am visiting every day, forced to park by the homeless camp on the edge of the lot and limp across the hot pavement past numerous empty spots reserved for the disabled. Flowers wilted before I could get to her private room.