People's faces looked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through the last lap of a race already lost.
And we come to understand that ours is just one leg of a relay, and we hand off that baton to a new runner, fresh to take our effort further than we ever could.
His eyes fell on the still, upright, and rigid form of the " Indian runner, " who had borne to the camp the unwelcome tidings of the preceding evening.
Exercise raises levels of serotonin and also increases levels of endorphins, which are responsible for " runner's high" and have been shown to fight depression.