Born To Run
Born To Run
Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run arrived on my desk with impeccable timing. I’d just finished a mammoth 19-hour climb and ski of California’s Mount Tyndall, and while nursing my wounds I began asking hard questions about my physical limits.
If your experience is anything like mine, you’ve been conditioned over your entire life to believe that human beings were not meant to run.
Give us tools, weapons, or wheels—anything but our own two feet. We are the slowest, most awkward creatures in nature, conventional wisdom goes, and while a very few of us engage in marathons or ‘ultra’ marathons, such refusals to accept one’s destiny inevitably end in injury (more…)
The Bridge to Nowhere
Mt. Whitney: The East Face
PCT: Onion Valley to Cottonwood Pass
North Palisade: the U-Notch
Mt. San Jacinto: Round Valley Trail
Mt. Shasta: Avalanche Gulch
Grand Canyon: Walter Powell Route
Mt. Langley: Cottonwood Lakes Loop
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
My question is, how much of this is because they only ran on trails and not asphalt/concrete? And how many of our runners suffer because of paved surfaces? Unpaved surfaces are much, much easier on a runner’s body than pavement, but most runners still spend their time on roads.