“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
-Born To Run by Christopher McDougall
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