Christopher McDougall

“there was never anything wrong with Jenni that couldn’t be fixed by what’s right with Jenni.”

— Christopher McDougall

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total…

— Christopher McDougall

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

There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is…

— Christopher McDougall

“laughin’ about it.”

— Christopher McDougall

If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and…

— Christopher McDougall

“Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was…

— Christopher McDougall

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

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to…

— Christopher McDougall

“Living on the edge wasn’t about danger, he realized. It was about curiosity; audacious curiosity, like”

— Christopher McDougall

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

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into…

— Christopher McDougall

“[He] coluldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between…

— Christopher McDougall

“When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence…

— Christopher McDougall

We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have…

— Christopher McDougall

Running should be free, man.

— Christopher McDougall

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

— Christopher McDougall

“If you keep just close enough for it to see you, it will keep sprinting away. After about ten or fifteen kilometers’…

— Christopher McDougall

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, but to be with each other. It's easy to get outside…

— Christopher McDougall

“I just don’t think I’m built for running fifty miles,” I said. “Everyone is built for running,” he said.”

— Christopher McDougall

“Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their…

— Christopher McDougall

“an hour in running shoes, I got almost instantly from these Kangoo boots,” Ted says. “My worldview of what I needed was…

— Christopher McDougall

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

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,…

— Christopher McDougall

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

— Christopher McDougall