SPARTATHLON 2019
If you believe in god(s), if you believe in love, if you believe in the need to tell stories to live to our fullest, then you need to experience the Spartathlon. It is magic because you become the story and the story becomes you. The view of Ancient and modern Corinth from Acrocorinth, a castle on a hill made of the stuff from my childhood dreams. 11 of 17 of Team USA at the start in the shadow of the Acropolis. King Leonidas waiting for our arrival in Sparta. One of my absolute favorite classes in undergrad was a Sports Literature class taught by a woman. We had just read Don DeLillo’s End Zone and our Professor had us focus on the novel’s none-too-subtle theme of football as war. The perhaps inherent desire for violence, she challenged us, is captured on the playing field for us all – the players, the band creating the soundtrack, the strategy and implementation, and (perhaps most of all) the spectators. It is a replacement for our warmongering tende