When It Comes To Mentors,

When I'm Out On A Long Run," She Continued, "the Only Thing In Life That Matters Is Finishing The Run. For Once, My Brain Isn't Going Blehblehbleh All The Time. Everything Quiets Down, And The Only Thing Going On Is Pure Flow. It's Jus Time And The Movement And The Motion.that's What Love--just Being A Barbarian, Running Through The Woods.

Blaming The Running Injury Epidemic On Big, Bad Nike Seems Too Easy - But That's Okay, Because It's Largely Their Fault.

Know Why People Run Marathons? …because Running Is Rooted In Our Collective Imagination, And Our Imagination Is Rooted In Running. Language, Art, Science; Space Shuttles, Starry Night, Intravascular Surgery; They All Had Their Roots In Our Ability To Run. Running Was The Superpower That Made Us Human — Which Means Its A Superpower All Humans Posses.

Way Before We Were Scratching Pictures On Caves Or Beating Rhythms On Hollow Trees We Were Perfecting The Art Of Combining Our Breath And Mind And Muscles Into Fluid Self-propulsion Over Wild Terrain.

That Was The Real Secret Of The Tarahumara: They'd Never Forgotten What It Felt Like To Love Running. They Remembered That Running Was Mankind's First Fine Art, Our Original Act Of Inspired Creation.