The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

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.

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.