Reflection: a marathon won barefoot, sixty-six years on

Sixty-six years ago Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon running barefoot through Rome. He didn't wait for the right shoes. We spend so much of a life waiting to be properly equipped — but sometimes the thing you have to give is best given exactly as you are.

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