Reading Response 2: Born to Run

I started another book this week. I started reading probably one of the best books ever written, it's most definitely the best running book ever written. This book has inspired millions of runners and people. This book is about a group of superhuman athletes called the Tarhumara Indians. These people can run hundreds of miles a day, yes I did say in one day, without a single hint of an injury. I've learned that every year during their harvest they have a giant party where they consume large amounts of their home brewed corn beer and they do this all night. Then, the next day they all line up and run for 2 days straight, I couldn't run for more than 3 hours straight. The most any of the Tarhumara have ran during the 2 days was 435 miles, that's equivalent to running from New York to Detroit. This Indians live off the bare minimum, they wear homemade skirts, togas and sandals. They live invisible, you could pass and entire village without even noticing a hint of human life around. This is how they like to keep things, they only show themseslves when they want to. They have been through so much in last 400 years, from explorers enslavinng them to men killing them for the scalps just to make money. These reason are why they live so far in the Barracas del Cobre or Copper Canyon. This book is written by a reporter who is a doing a story or more of an investigation on why he has problems running and how he can fix them. His name is Christopher McDougall, he's an award winning journalist and often injured runner.