Ryan Boquist
Author: Chistopher McDougal
Pages:272
Born to run is about the authors main quest is to find the answer to his running aliments. The book starts with the main author’s trip to Mexico. In Mexico he finds these Indians called Tarahumara Indians. They live in the Copper Canyons in Chihuahua state, Mexico. It is not a very easy journey getting to be able to meet the tribe but once he does it is well worth it. He finds out that the tribes people were pretty much born to run.
As children the Tarahumara have running games and it is not uncommon for the 80 year old men in the tribe to go for an all day run up to or over 50 miles a day. He also found out that the tribe members lived very long lives and also had no foot problems even though they only ran in sandals on the rocky mountain trails they had to run on. The key to their success was there foot wear and running technique. Naturally we were made to run from toe to heel but with modern day running shoes they change your stride to an unnatural heel to toe stride. The answer to the authors running aliments had been fixed. With time McDougal’s running problems had slowly faded away.
This book also has tips for ultra marathon (50 mile races) runners and runners who just want to improve their time. The tips were from the Tarahumara Indians and other barefoot runners. Even if you don’t run this is a very interesting book just to find out about the history and mechanics of running.
I would recommend this book to anyone. This book deserves a nice 10 out of 10 rating. There wasn’t anything really wrong with the book and I really enjoyed reading it. Born to run stared the “toe shoe movement” which shows that this book can be very influential.
I am by far the worst runner on Earth and it sounds like this book might help me solve a few of my problems. I found it very interesting that humans run best without fancy running shoes. Great job on your post!
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of this before! i can't imagine an 80 year old man running though haha. I learned a lot just from reading this post but I would probably learn so much more about running from this book. What was the coolest fact you learned about running?
ReplyDeletewow, this book sounds like it is filled with facts! i am amazed by just the few facts in this post. i bet it was a very interesting read, mr. west should be featured in this!
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