Born to Run

Sorry no Birthday Photos, they just won't load. Hopefully the problem will fix it's self. In the mean time, check this out. Preston and I just read this book, and when I say read, I mean more like listen to on CD. Which I was really glad to do, because of all the Spanish in there. Before I tell you about the book, I feel like I need to clarify something, I am not a runner! It's hard, and it hurts. I am a much better runner then I ever have been, but I still have not found the joy in it...yet. This book, Born to Run, is about a bunch of Ultra Marathoners called the Tarahumara Indians. But the book is about so much more then just them. It talks about food & diet, running & ultra marathons, The Tarahumara and there amazing cultural. Born to Run falls under a fairly new category... Creative non-fiction. Extremely captivating book. Preston busted it out in about 3 to 4 days, I think I took about a week. (ultra-runners do 50-100 mile runs, all at once. They run all day and into the night.)

Excerpt from the Book:

For days, I'd been searching Mexico's Sierra Madre for the phantom known as Caballo Blanco- the White horse. I'd finally arrived at the end of the trail, in the last place I expected to find him- not deep in the wilderness he was said to haunt, but in the dim lobby of an old hotel on the edge of a dusty desert town.

When it comes to ultadistances, nothing can beat a Tarahumara runner- not a racehorse, not a cheetah, not a an olympic marathoner. Very few outsiders have ever seen the Tarahumara in action, but amazing stories of their superhuman toughness and tranquility have drifted out of the canyons for centuries. One explorer swore he saw a Tarahumara catch a deer with his bare hands, chasing the bounding animal until it finally dropped dead from exhaustion, "its hoofs falling off." Another adventurer spent ten hours climbing up and over a Copper Canyon mountain by mule; a Tarahumara runner made a the same trip in ninety minutes.

Very good, and exciting read.