![]() Except, of course, when the outside world encroaches, dumping drugs and importing murder … but that’s a different story. 95-year-old Tarahumaru run effortlessly because no one ever told them they couldn’t! They’re a near utopian group of superathletes able to survive extreme physical conditions, who eat a virtually perfect diet (of chia seeds, pinole, and homegrown booze) that enables them to glide up and down mountains 20-30-40-plus miles at a time, living in harmony with each other and the land around them. ![]() The man – or whoever/whatever he is – can run.Ĭaballo lives among Mexico’s near-invisible Tarahumaru tribe, known to be the fastest endurance runners in the world. He might be a killer or at the very least a fugitive. Looking at endless cortisone shots to ease his runner’s pain, Christopher McDougall – a former war correspondent! – stumbles on the ghostly legend of a gringo living in Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyon who goes by the name of Caballo Blanco. Part memoir, part adventure story, Born to Run is pure, adrenaline-pumping entertainment. ![]() If you’re not inspired to go out and move, move, move, I want to hear about that, too! If, at the end of reading (or, as in my case, listening to Fred Sanders read addictively out loud) this book, you are not completely and utterly convinced that human beings were born to run, I want to hear about it for sure. ![]()
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