“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.” — 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… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“You don't stop running because you get old', said the Demon. 'You get old because you stop running.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one… — 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
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
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
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
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
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated soley by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your… — 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
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through.… — 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
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
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“...in all the Kalahari Desert, only six true hunters remained. The renegades agreed to let Louis hang around, an offer he took… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training… — 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
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
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
“Ask nothing from running and you'll get more than you ever imagined” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“I just don’t think I’m built for running fifty miles,” I said. “Everyone is built for running,” he said.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined! — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
...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 Image
“You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image