How do you say... "Running is strange and unproductive!", "Why run for 2 hours if you can drive everything in the gym in half an hour?", "Running is bad for the knees!", "When I was running, everything hurt me. I won't do it again!", "I bought the best sneakers for $300 and my heels and tendons still hurt." These are the words of those who did not understand the main thing — in modern society we are so far from our essence that we buy all unnecessary rubbish, run in expensive and harmful shoes, for which we have earned for a long time on a worthless hateful job, we do not believe in instincts and do not want to learn to run. We break down as devices and hate our essence even more.
And our essence is, according to the research of the author of the book "Born to Run", that we are the only creatures on Earth with almost limitless endurance, very fancy legs and a brain that controls all this. Today we do not need to run to drive a deer to complete fatigue, as the bushmen do, or to get to a nearby remote village, as the famous tarumara do. But our essence remains unchanged — we love to run and therefore 30,000 people gather for one marathon, because children run tirelessly, because many of us love running for its minimalism and simplicity.
The book has a main storyline about the Tarumara tribe, which has preserved the incredible skill of running and Westerners, with whom this legend has grown. In parallel, the author talks about what shoe companies do with runners and how they continue to generate shoes that cripple runners and what employees themselves think about it inside companies. You will learn from the book about the evolution of man as a running animal and how our subspecies of man displaced a powerful subspecies of Neanderthals from the face of the Earth, which had every chance to dominate the Earth, as Homo sapiens does today.
If you are thinking about participating in ultramarathons (races over 42 km) and want to get into the rebellious subculture of these extremely inspiring people, do not miss this book.
At the moment, Born to Run exists in English in all the leading stores in the world — Apple Store, Amazon Kindle Store, BARNES&NOBLE. I read the book in Russian in the usual excellent translation of the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber". The book is currently available on pre-order.
Don't miss "Born to Run" if you love running or feel like you want to love it! When I read this book, I broke down several times and ran digesting what I read. Which is what I wish you.
And don't miss Chris McDougle's TED talk:
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