Know Why People Run Marathons? …because Running

In 'tarahumara' Land, There Was No Crime, War Or Theft. There Was No Corruption, Obesity, Drug Addiction, Greed, Wife-beating, Child Abuse, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Or Carbon Emissions. They Didn't Get Diabetes, Or Depressed, Or Even Old: 50-year-olds Outran Teenagers.

We've Created An Unnatural Form Of Running. It's Not Just The Shoes, But We Run On Artificial Surfaces - Straight Ahead, Hard And Steady - Instead Of Speeding Up And Slowing Down, Reacting To The Terrain With Changes Of Pace And Rhythm.

If You Don't Have Answers To Your Problems After A Four-hour Run, You Ain't Getting Them.

If You Don't Think You Were Born To Run You're Not Only Denying History. You're Denying Who You Are.

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.