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"Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else. And like everything else we love — everything we sentimentally call our “passions” and “desires” — it’s really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run. We’re all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known."
You would think that I’m on Christopher McDougall’s payroll, the amount I plug Born to Run on this blog. But I’m not. If you are a runner, you absolutely HAVE to read this book. It doesn’t matter what you think about the barefoot running debate — this book will make you love running again. Even if you never stopped loving it in the first place.
Seriously, the other day I was bothering Justin to read it again and I said, “it’s the only thing I think about now when I’m running. That and what I’m going to blog about.”
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