“You don't stop running because you get old', said the Demon. 'You get old because you stop running.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“You’ve got this fancy machine, and it’s controlled by a pilot who’s thinking, ‘Okay, how can I run this baby without using… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Imagine your kid is running into the street and you have to sprint after her in bare feet," Eric told me when… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known. But the American approach -- ugh . Rotten at its core. It… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that’s all you get, that’s not so bad. Then work… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“Death Valley is the perfect flesh-grilling device, the Foreman Grill in Mother Nature’s cupboard. It’s a big, shimmering sea of salt ringed by mountains… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“that it took him nearly the entire walk to notice what was happening: his back didn’t hurt. Didn’t hurt a bit. Heyyy … Ted… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“Ultra god Scott Jurek summed up the Young Guns’ unofficial creed with a quote from William James he stuck on the end of every… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
“The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
