We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known. At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons. We were born to run we were born because we run. And like everyhing else we ove-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires' it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's Journal, and New York, and was a contributing editor for Men's Health.

You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. Christopher McDougall is an American author and journalist best known for his 2009 best-selling book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together.

And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.ĭistance running was revered because it was indispensable it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. Its impact on the running world has been considerable. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. Journalist Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen hit bookstore shelves on May 5, 2009. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. “That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running.

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