Part adventure story, part extreme sports, Born to Run is a riveting story about one journalist\'s quest to discover the secrets of the world\'s Greatest distance runners--a reclusive Indian Tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.
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McDougall\'s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were Born to run.
In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic Race in the Copper Canyons that pits America\'s best ultra-runners against the tribe.
In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher Mcdougall sets out to discover their secrets. -- Outside Magazine Isolated by Mexico\'s deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury.
It simply makes you want to run.
The climactic Race reads like a sprint....
An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history....
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run.
Part adventure story, part extreme sports, Born to Run is a riveting story about one journalist\'s quest to discover the secrets of the world\'s Greatest distance runners--a reclusive Indian Tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico
