Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it. — 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
Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But…” quote by Christopher McDougall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/182/christopher-mcdougall-2557_baths_but-yeah-ann-trason-insisted-running-was_385829.jpg)
