fittest

We’re in a game of survival of the fittest, where surviving itself feels akin to luxuriating in what should be hostile territory, mastering an environment we have come together to ravage.

“You’re going to have a minimum of 12 hours of pain. There’s no other sport where you get to the start line the fittest you’ve ever been and, if all goes well, you can’t walk properly the next day.”

She is one of the fittest cricketers on the domestic circuit, but was still visibly exhausted and struggling to run twos towards the end of her knock.

This movement seemed to yearn for a specific conception of Western culture - a Nietzschean world in which the fittest survive, where disruption and chaos give birth to greatness.

In my attempt at flirting I asked him, “How does it like to be the fittest guy at the gym?”