Watching runners on TV sparked a new ambition, though, and with self training and later a professional coach, he reinvented his life as a marathon runner, first for his own satisfaction, and then to show a prejudiced world the dignity and accomplishment of the poorly understood Sikh community. Marriage, children, and what seemed like a very full life later, eighty-one-year-old Fauja moved to England to be near family, and he was miserable. The miles-long walk to school was too much for him, so he stayed on the family farm, worked hard, and grew stronger.
Nobody in Fauja's Punjab village understood why he took so long to walk, and nobody expected that even when he did-ever so weakly-he'd amount to much.
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