Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

май 2009 г. · Продавец: Vintage

Об электронной книге

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside Magazine

Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe. McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

Look for Born to Run 2, out now!

Оценки и отзывы

Книга про спорт, которую, тем не менее, интересно читать. Оказывается, увлечение бегом может изменить не только жизнь человека, но и его личность. Бег требует усилий воли, не меньших, чем требуют единоборства, и бегать, оказывается, совсем не скучно! Книга рассказывает о том, как судьбы нескольких бегунов по пересеченной местности пересеклись на некоммерческом забеге сверхдлинную дистанцию. Кроме того, в книге содержится значительное количество научного материала и практического знания.

This is a book of an incredebul dog that had two lives. And how different they are. I think this book is a little sad, but it has it own buity

Очень интересная и мотивирующая книга.

Об авторе

CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL is the author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen and Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance.  He began his career as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, covering wars in Rwanda and Angola. He now lives and writes (and runs, swims, climbs, and bear-crawls) among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.