Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Distance running should not wreck your body. For most of human history it didn’t. Your anatomy was shaped by persistence hunting—chasing animals across open ground until they dropped from heat exhaustion—which means the body is engineered to cover long distances. So why do 65 to 80 percent of modern runners get hurt every year, with doctors telling the injured to simply stop? Christopher McDougall’s answer is that the fault isn’t in running. It’s in the cushioned shoes that numb the feedback your feet need, and in treating running as a chore instead of the pleasure it was born to be.

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen