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The Pain & Therapy Bibliography, Record ID 0581

Born to run: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen


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item type
a book
author
Christopher McDougall
 
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publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
year
2009

excerpt

McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans

related content

  1. “Endurance running and the evolution of Homo,” an article in Nature, 2004.
  2. “The evolution of marathon running: capabilities in humans,” an article in Sports Medicine, 2007.
  3. Born to run: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen, a book by Christopher McDougall. amazon.com

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