BORN TO RUN

Born To Run - No, it's not my favorite song by one of my favorite musicians, this is a great book by Christopher McDougall about ultra-running. It's great that all these thousands of people run marathons, and not to minimize that accomplishment, but there are people in the world who run races that are two to eight times the marathon distance in rugged conditions, for days at a time, and can't not do it. This book is about them, and also about the Tarahumara people in Mexico who run similar races as part of their culture. McDougall writes with a chatty, easy to read style, and includes all kinds of information about running that is free and natural rather than sponsored and practiced. Not that the ultra-runners don't practice, but they don't really practice. They just run. and run. and run some more. Some of them run barefoot. They run for days. They run no matter what.