But as contorted as some of their bodies were, most of the firewood carriers I saw moved with extraordinary strength and grace. For less than a dollar a day." The torturous work can permanently cripple them from a very young age, bending their torsos ninety degrees even as they remain nimble. "These women hike up and down Mount Entoto every day, dawn to dusk, collecting eucalyptus branches to be sold in the marketplace.
"A firewood carrier," Dan explained from one position ahead. I made out a woman's silhouette beneath the patterned cloak, a headpiece covering her hair but nothing between her bare feet and the rough carpet of earth below her. A brightly clothed figure, a bundle of branches on her back, was also trekking up the mountain, not at our pace but much quicker than our earlier hike. As the six of us continued our ascent up Mount Entoto, my focus shifted from the incline ahead to a flash of movement in the forest to our right. Wade's 7 lessons from running around worldīut now, ten Ethiopian runs deep, I stopped hoping for smooth routes, and treated every snap as a red flag.Sensing my shock, she said, "Maybe one hundred?") Editor's Picks ("Twenty miles?" Banchi had responded when I asked her how many miles or kilometers she typically runs in one week. The girls were unable even to estimate their weekly volume. It didn't help to ask for specifics in advance rarely was the distance or speed predetermined - as I learned on my very first day when the thirty-minute run I'd requested lasted over an hour and no one but Dan and I seemed to notice. The captain of the day - today, Derartu - would take off into the forest like a mother duck with her chicks in a single-file line behind her, choosing any pace and any route, no matter how serpentine or perilous. "I'd been in Ethiopia only a week but had run enough (once or twice per day) to know what to expect.
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