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Born to run: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
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item type
book
author
Christopher McDougall
publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
year
2009
publisher’s summary
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
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