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- That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
- Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and…
- The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
- Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
- Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were…
- 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 to…
- Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People.…
- There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we…
- Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat…
- But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until…
- Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind…
- 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…
- Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies…
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