High blood pressure Quotes by Christopher McDougall

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

“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

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

“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

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

— Christopher McDougall

“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

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

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

— Christopher McDougall

“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces”

— Christopher McDougall

...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

“You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.”

— Christopher McDougall

“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.”

— Christopher McDougall