“...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that… — 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 don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them. — 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
“You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you… — 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
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard… — 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
There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our… — 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
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living… — 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
“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
“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
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and… — 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
