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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, is a 2009 best-selling non-fiction book written by the American author and journalist Christopher McDougall. The book has sold over three million copies. [1]
Christopher McDougall (born 1962) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for his 2009 book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. [1] He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's Journal, and New York, and was a contributing editor for Men's ...
Micah True (November 10, 1953 – March 27, 2012), born Michael Randall Hickman and also known as Caballo Blanco (white horse), was an American ultrarunner from Boulder, Colorado, who received attention because of his depiction as a central character in Christopher McDougall's book Born to Run.
His 2004 paper with Dennis Bramble, “Endurance Running and the Evolution of Homo” [8] proposed that humans evolved to run long distances to scavenge and hunt. His research on running in general, especially barefoot running [ 9 ] [ 10 ] was popularized in Chris McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run . [ 11 ]
Born to Run (autobiography), a 2016 book by Bruce Springsteen; Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, a 2009 book about the Tarahumara Indians by Christopher McDougall; Born to Run, a 2008 novel by James Grippando; Born to Run, a 2007 novel by Michael Morpurgo
The practice saw a surge in popularity after the 2009 publication of Christopher McDougall's book, Born to Run, promoting the practice. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the United States , the Barefoot Runners Society was founded in November 2009 as a national club for unshod runners and grew quickly.
In Christopher McDougall's book Born to Run, the author describes the Rarámuri of the Mexican Copper Canyons teaching a fellow runner how to build huaraches. [ 1 ] There is also well-known model of Nike running shoes [ 2 ] of the same name, which however is not a huarache type of a shoe.
Born to Run (McDougall book) Born to Use Mics; Bowie: A Biography; Breaking the Spell (Stork book) Breakshot; The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama; The Broken Compass; Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word; Burning Down the House (memoir)