Sidelined by bad knees that haven’t responded to the usual
therapies, a longtime runner launches a last-ditch effort to get
back on the road—and winds up at a high-tech lab to see if
retooling his stride might resuscitate his running life. Only one
thing is certain about his quest: It’s not going to be pretty
“Can you go faster?”the kindly doctoral student Becky wants to know.
[ BY TODD BALF ]
Photographs by Michael Lewis