“You don't stop running because you get old', said the Demon. 'You get old because you stop running.” — 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
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
He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we… — 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
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
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
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
“Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it.… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
-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
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
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
“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
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
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