Endurance, After All, Is The Only Reason

Perhaps All Our Troubles - All The Violence, Obesity, Illness, Depression, And Greed We Can't Overcome - Began When We Stopped Living As Running People. Deny Your Nature, And It Will Erupt In Some Other, Uglier Way.

For Nearly 2 Million Years, Our Ancestors Survived And Thrived And Spread Across The Planet Because They Could Run Other Mammals Into Heat Exhaustion.

The Tarahumara Would Party Like This All Night, Then Rouse Themselves The Next Morning To Face Off In A Running Race That Could Last Not Two Miles, Not Two Hours, But Two Full Days. According To The Mexican Historian Francisco Almada, A Tarahumara Champion Once Ran 435 Miles, The Equivalent Of Setting Out For A Jog In New York City And Not Stopping Till You Were Closing In On Detroit.

Make Friends With Pain, And You Will Never Be Alone.~ken Chlouber, Colorado Miner And Creator Of The Leadville Trail 100 Mile Race

Only Recently Have We Come Up With The Technology To Turn Lazing Around Into A Way Of Life. We've Taken Our Sinewy, Durable, Hunter-gatherer Bodies And Plunked Them Into An Artificial World Of Leisure.