Chi Running

Checked Chi Running book and DVD out from the library. I am preparing for my 50 mile run physically and mentally. The mental training is almost more important than the physical training. Every day I repeat to my self:

I am able to run the Wild Idaho 50 mile run faster than
anyone else without any pain or discomfort.

Mentally I know that the Tarahumara Indians are able to run 100 miles without any signs of fatigue or pain. This book has really helped me understand how they are able to do that.

Focusing on my running form is extremely important to my success in this upcoming 50 mile run. I want to run this 50 mile run without any pain or discomfort.

Check this book out if you are interested in learning some great secrets to pain free running. More people are getting running injuries now than ever before in the history of running.

The Tarahumara run distances of 200 miles or more and experience zero running injuries.

Tarahumara Indians - The Men Who Live Forever

Tarahumara Indians - The Men Who Live Forever - Men's Health article about the men who live forever. Why spend our whole lives working just to end up dying prematurely before we get to enjoy retirement? Why not just live simple like the Tarahumara and enjoy an entire lifetime instead of just a portion of one.

“In Tarahumara Land, there was no crime, war, or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn’t get diabetes, or depressed, or even old; fifty year-olds could outrun teenagers and eighty-year-old great-granddads could hike marathon distances up mountainsides. Their cancer rates were barely detectable…According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit. Other Tarahumara runners reportedly went three hundred miles at a pop.”
-Born To Run by Christopher McDougall