Truth Seeking Quote by Christopher McDougall

““to the tarahumara, asking direct questions is a show of force, a demand for a possession inside their head.””

Christopher McDougall

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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.

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“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble. Young Gun ultrarunners were like Lost Generation writers in the ’20s, Beat poets in the ’50s, and rock musicians in the ’60s: they were poor…

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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 burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer…

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“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 that bottle up the heat and force it right back down on your skull. The average air temperature hovers around 125 degrees, but once the sun rises and begins broiling the desert floor, the ground beneath…

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We were born to run; we were born because we run.

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“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…

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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,…

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You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

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“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces”

Christopher McDougall

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...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make…

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“You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.”

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“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.”

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