Anguish, beauty or both?

Earlier this year, I posted a few photos to one of my regular online forums and a user asked "what on earth possessed me to post photographs of folks in distress?" Clearly, the respondant wasn't any kind of athlete because what he found disturbing I found awesome and exciting. It isn't distress, it is effort - competitors train to race and when you race you let it all hang out and when you cross the line you want to make sure that you left nothing on the course or field of play, nothing; and to do that you have to give it everything, absolutely everything. It is the job of a sports photographer is to capture both the beauty and anguish - but to me anguish is simply a different flavor of beauty. This shot should simply be called 'Competition': awesome.This photograph was published in New England Runner magazine.