The Tarahumara Would Party Like This All

When I'm Out On A Long Run," She Continued, "the Only Thing In Life That Matters Is Finishing The Run. For Once, My Brain Isn't Going Blehblehbleh All The Time. Everything Quiets Down, And The Only Thing Going On Is Pure Flow. It's Jus Time And The Movement And The Motion.that's What Love--just Being A Barbarian, Running Through The Woods.

But Yeah, Ann [trason] Insisted, Running Was Romantic; And No, Of Course Her Friends Didn't Get It Because They'd Never Broken Through. For Them, Running Was A Miserable Two Miles Motivated Solely By Size 6 Jeans: Get On The Scale, Get Depressed, Get Your Headphones On, And Get It Over With. But You Can't Muscle Through A Five-hour Run That Way; You Have To Relax Into It, Like Easing Your Body Into A Hot Bath, Until It No Longer Resists The Shock And Begins To Enjoy It.

The Only Way To Truly Conquer Something, As Every Great Philosopher And Geneticist Will Tell You, Is To Love It.

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

Humans Are Built For Endurance, Not Speed. We're Awful Sprinters Compared To Every Other Animal. We Try To Run Our Races As If They Were Speed Races, But They Are Not. They're Endurance Races. Even A Marathon, The Way It's Run Now, It's Not An Endurance Contest.