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Born to Run

"So simple ... just move your legs.
Because if you do not think You Were Born to Run, you're not only
Denying history,
're Denying who you are."
Dennis Bramble

Funny, exciting, ancient, awesome!

Published in 2009, this is a best-selling American book focuses on the act of travel, a movement that once allowed a man to becoming a successful long distance runners to tire and reach its prey ( more comprehensive discussion ) .

Born to run, born to run. Our body is born to run. The direction of movement.
to remember our anatomy, our biomechanical and some cultures like those of Rarámuri (those with light feet) and in the Copper Canyon today, to survive in a harsh and wild, they run hundreds of miles wearing only a pair of sandals.

The book is the story of the Tarahumara but also the history of man and the same author, Christopher McDougall , a correspondent for the Associated Press journalist and editor of Men's Health.

Christopher could not run for his injuries.
Until the meeting in a Caballo Blanco ultrarunner who for years lived in Colorado and Mexico in the Sierra Tarahumara with divided his life with Rarámuri.

Hence the rediscovery of natural gesture the race and the human body.
We were born barefoot and we do not need a pair of shoes superammortizzanti with motion control, protection, pronation, supination, integrated chips, etc etc.
The best shoes are the worst , the best shoes are the worst.
The human body is designed to run without shoes.
A shoe offers support and propulsion protected completely unnatural relation to the structure of our feet. Calls for the use of heel and knee with greater force increases the risk of injury.
The arch of the foot is a high strength net consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, 12 tendons and 18 extensible elastic muscles.
Put your feet in shoes is similar to put in a plaster cast. In
shoes the tendons of the muscles become rigid, they wilt and do not provide the natural movement.
The foot loses that touch that connects us to mother earth.
You lose the moment, you lose the attention of the moment, you lose the perception.
Christopher collects information from athletic trainers, athletes, scholars and doctors discovered a world race now lost in time.
fails, try on himself to solve the physical problems and be able to run free.

In the book's amusing anecdotes are interwoven with the stories of many characters, including the aforementioned Caballo Blanco, Barefoot Ted , Jenn Shelton , Billy "Bonehead" Barnett, Scott Jurek , Ann Trasona , Luis Escobar, Joe Vigil, Eric Orton, Arnulfo Quim, Manuel Luna ...


A book intriguing, moving, dedicated to the Tarahumara, the ultrarunners but also to people who simply want to run in the middle of nature in a spontaneous way.

Conference author Christopher McDougall

I think the book has not yet been translated and published in Italy.

is available in English at amazon.com:



Caballo Blanco organizes each year, the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon to help families Tarahumara. It is also spokesman for the nonprofit Noraway Rarámuri-de Amigos de Tarahumara that supports the culture of this extraordinary people of the Sierra del Cobre Mexico.

"The best runner leaves no tracks" Tao Te Ching

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seeds Chía

We had a rather cold and rainy winter here in Mexico (the unusual rain in this period). With the arrival of the month March is beginning to feel hot. You sleep with the windows open at night and by day turns into Bermuda. The hottest months here in the central areas are those of April and May. In June, the rains begin to get that cool afternoon. The heat is dry you sweat a little or nothing but it is so suffocating that seems to be missing my breath as my throat feels dry. During the warm months

always prefer to refresh and losing in the shade of some raspado consuming a kiosk, a sort of Mexican granita made with natural ingredients.

At home there is always el agua de sabor , the taste of water, a tradition of any Mexican home.
taste of drinking water in qualasiasi year and at any time of day. Refreshes and softens your thirst.
Pearl prepares water tastes every day. They can be orange, tangerine, melon, watermelon, lime, guava, mango, barley, cucumbers, sapote, guanabana, strawberry, papaya ... So there 'gives sbizzarrisi here in Mexico for this type of drink!

There 's also a Mexican seed that is used to prepare water very refreshing. A tiny seed of an herbaceous plant called Chia (Salvia hispanica)

Prepare a water-seed Chia is simple: the seeds are added to the almost natural with a little sugar and juice files.

Raramuris I call this drink or Tarahumara iSki .


Besides being refreshing un'eccezzionale Chia seeds have a high nutritional value. For centuries this tiny seed has been used as a staple food by indigenous groups in the south-west of the current United States and Mexico.
Its use as a food of strength and high energy has been known since ancient times of the ancient Aztec. The indigenous ingested a little more than a spoon to deal with long walks or runs as in the case of the Tarahumara, Navajo and Hopi.
The natives of the Southwest who walked from the Rio Colorado to the shores of California interchange for turquoise stones for shells, carrying with them seeds of Chia to feed.

If you mix in a glass of water a spoon of Chia and allowed to rest for half an hour you will notice that the glass contains water and seeds, but an almost solid gelatin. This reaction is due to soluble fiber present in this seed.


Information is learned that this gel once in the stomach creates a physical barrier between carbohydrates and digestive enzymes so that slows the conversion of carbohydrates into sugar. This slowdown in the conversion of carbohydrates into sugar can be a boon for people suffering from diabetes. The
Carbohydrates are the fuel for energy in our bodies. The
extend the transformation of sugar stabilizes metabolic changes: reducing the waves of ups and downs, you increase the creation of a longer duration of its effects in the generation of energy.

Chia seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, linoleic acid, which the body is able to generate. Contain long-chain triglycerides (LCT), which can reduce cholesterol in the artery walls.

wool is a seed, water can absorb more than 12 times its weight.
The ability to stay in the water offers the ability to prolong hydration.

fluids and electrolytes nourish our cells. Their composition is regulated so as to remain as constant as possible. With Chia seeds, you retain moisture more efficiently by gradually adjusting the body's absorption of nutrients and fluids.

is the key source of protein, calcium, iron, zinc, fiber and is an excellent antioxidant.

is very easily digested and assimilated. The
easy assimilation makes efficient and rapid growth and regeneration of muscle tissue.

Chía A nice glass of fresh!

Another unique quality of the seeds of the Chia is its high content of oils (omega-3 and omega-6). They are rich in short
of unsaturated fatty acids, linoleic acid, which the body is not able to generate. Unsaturated fatty acids are important for respiration of vital organs and make it easier to transport oxygen to cells, tissues and organs. They also help to maintain the lubrication between the cells and combining the protein and cholesterol to form living membranes that hold cells together.

Unsaturated fatty acids are essential for normal glandular activity, especially those of the thyroid and adrenal glands. They nourish the skin cells and are essential for healthy nerves and mucous membranes.

The role of fatty acids acids in the body is also to work together with vitamin D, which allows it to be available in the calcium in bones, helping the absorption of phosphorus and to stimulate the conversion of carotene into vitamin A.

It's amazing how a tiny seed has all these benefits for our body. True?


Curiosity: it seems that the key gave the name to the state of Chiapas ( Chía -pan Río de la Chía ).