The Tarahumara Would Party Like This All

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

Nearly All Runners Do Their Slow Runs Too Fast, And Their Fast Runs Too Slow." Ken Mierke Says. "so They're Just Training Their Bodies To Burn Sugar, Which Is The Last Thing A Distance Runner Wants. You've Got Enough Fat Stored To Run To California, So The More You Train Your Body To Burn Fat Instead Of Sugar, The Longer Your Limited Sugar Tank Is Going To Last." -the Way To Activate Your Fat-burning Furnace Is By Staying Below Your Aerobic Threshold--your Hard-breathing Point--during Your Endurance Runs.

That Was The Real Secret Of The Tarahumara: They'd Never Forgotten What It Felt Like To Love Running. They Remembered That Running Was Mankind's First Fine Art, Our Original Act Of Inspired Creation. Way Before We Were Scratching Pictures On Caves Or Beating Rhythms On Hollow Trees, We Were Perfecting The Art Of Combining Our Breath And Mind And Muscles Into Fluid Self-propulsion Over Wild Terrain. And When Our Ancestors Finally Did Make Their First Cave Paintings, What Were The First Designs? A Downward Slash, Lightning Bolts Through The Bottom And Middle-behold, The Running Man.

Every Morning In Africa, A Gazelle Wakes Up, It Knows It Must Outrun The Fastest Lion Or It Will Be Killed. Every Morning In Africa, A Lion Wakes Up. It Knows It Must Run Faster Than The Slowest Gazelle, Or It Will Starve. It Doesn't Matter Whether You're The Lion Or A Gazelle-when The Sun Comes Up, You'd Better Be Running.

If You Read Folklore And Mythology, Any Kind Of Myths, Any Kind Of Tall Tales, Running Is Always Associated With Freedom And Vitality And Youthfulness And Eternal Vigor. It's Only In Our Lifetime That Running Has Become Associated With Fear And Pain.