Born to Run
September 29th, 2009 | 
Author: Book Recommendation: If you want some inspiration about the marvelous capabilities of the human body and the importance of “the human spirit” in taking on life’s challenges, then read “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall. The book is mostly about an amazing people who live in Mexico’s Copper Canyons (the Tarahumara) and the Americans who take their inspiration from them. For those readers who like to know, the book would be PG-13 for language and a few episodes about the lusty and robust life of some ultrarunners. Fortunately, these few references do not overshadow the incredible energy and inspiration that is in the book.
Here’s the effect the book had on me. Yesterday, Sharon and I went on our morning walk/jog. Half-way through, I took off my shoes and ran the rest of the way home barefoot. I sat on our front steps admiring my incredible feet and realizing how constraining my “high-tech” running shoes are. I think I’ll buy a pair of Vibram Five Fingers, lose some weight, eliminate some more bad stuff from my diet, and run. After all, we were all born to run and this is not a metaphor. It’s true. Running came naturally when we were children. It can become natural again.
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Hooray! Go! The book will truly inspire you.
I am going to get the book and read as I can use some inspiration these days. I trained and ran a marathon and three half marathons about 8 years ago. I had never been a runner and wanted to become healthy and happy. So waht do I do but joined a marathon of all things at the age of 42 and about a hundred pounds overweight if you can beleive it. I lost 70 pounds and became an inspiration to my fellow training teammates who were half my age and weight. They showed up each week because I showed up each week. My coach at the time told me to just work on finishing and not on time. I started picturing myself coming in after the race was over and everyone had left. I was not going to let that happen because the first race I did during training was a half marathon with the most elite runners in Richmond and I came in last. The blog on the running website had comments from runners letting it be known that I took a runners spot and shouldn’t even be running at all because I was fat and slow. I worked twice as hard and pushed my body way beyond what it should have been able to take and came to the finish line 30 minutes under the time allowed for the marathon. Eight years later I am right back at the starting line and would love to become inspired to run again. Thank you Darby for constantly being an inspiration, I am going to get my happy feet out there again!
Wow. A New Year but where are the new posts? Please write something new :) – Bill
What is it about running? I love it too.
I wrote that book on my “to read” list… thanks