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The book has received attention in the sporting world for McDougall's description of how he overcame injuries by modeling his running after the Tarahumara. [ 3 ] He asserts that modern cushioned running shoes are a major cause of running injury, pointing to the thin sandals worn by Tarahumara runners, and the explosion of running-related ...
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.
John A. McDougall (May 17, 1947 – June 22, 2024) was an American physician and author. He wrote a number of diet books advocating the consumption of a low-fat vegan diet based on starchy foods and vegetables.
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
Jenn Shelton (born 1983) [1] is an American ultramarathoner. She has set course records in several of the most demanding American ultramarathons. Shelton attended the University of North Carolina where she played on the rugby team. [2] She dropped out to focus on writing poetry, [2] but later enrolled at Old Dominion University.
John L. Parker Jr. (born 1947) is an American writer and the author of the cult classic novel Once A Runner and the more recently published Again to Carthage and Racing the Rain. The trilogy chronicles the struggles of Quenton Cassidy, a middle-distance runner.
McDougall was educated at a number of schools, and was a student at Owens College, Manchester and St John's College, Cambridge. [5] He studied medicine and physiology in London and Göttingen . After teaching at University College London and Oxford , he was recruited to occupy the William James chair of psychology at Harvard University in 1920 ...