For runners, it’s on a must-read list of books that also includes, among others, “Once a Runner” by John L. Although it contains some hyperbole, the book has earned its keep (and rave reviews) because McDougall’s vivid story-telling, compelling character development and in-depth reporting appeal to everyone from new runners and veteran ultrarunners to non-runners and couch potatoes alike. McDougall’s 304-page autobiographical account of running almost-barefoot with the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico has sold more than a half million copies worldwide and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years. Here’s a quick glance at a few of the ways it influenced the running world and some additional developments that have happened in the past couple of years.ġ. Its impact on the running world has been considerable.
Journalist Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” hit bookstore shelves on May 5, 2009.
All of these skills, McDougall learns, are still practiced in far-flung pockets throughout the world today.Chris McDougall’s “Born to Run” was published in May 2009. On Crete, the birthplace of the classical Greek heroism that spawned the likes of Herakles and Odysseus, McDougall discovers the tools of the hero-natural movement, extraordinary endurance, and efficient nutrition. McDougall makes his way to the island to find the answer and retrace their steps, experiencing firsthand the extreme physical challenges the Resistance fighters and their local allies faced. How did a penniless artist, a young shepherd, and a playboy poet believe they could carry out such a remarkable feat of strength and endurance, smuggling the general past thousands of Nazi pursuers, with little more than their own wits and courage to guide them? The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere.Īfter running an ultramarathon through the Copper Canyons of Mexico, Christopher McDougall finds his next great adventure on the razor-sharp mountains of Crete, where a band of Resistance fighters in World War II plotted the daring abduction of a German general from the heart of the Nazi occupation.
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