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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