Running Is The Heart Of What It

Humans Are Built For Endurance, Not Speed. We're Awful Sprinters Compared To Every Other Animal. We Try To Run Our Races As If They Were Speed Races, But They Are Not. They're Endurance Races. Even A Marathon, The Way It's Run Now, It's Not An Endurance Contest.

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.

Nearly All Runners Do Their Slow Runs Too Fast, And Their Fast Runs Too Slow." Ken Mierke Says. "so They're Just Training Their Bodies To Burn Sugar, Which Is The Last Thing A Distance Runner Wants. You've Got Enough Fat Stored To Run To California, So The More You Train Your Body To Burn Fat Instead Of Sugar, The Longer Your Limited Sugar Tank Is Going To Last." -the Way To Activate Your Fat-burning Furnace Is By Staying Below Your Aerobic Threshold--your Hard-breathing Point--during Your Endurance Runs.

I Have The Idea That Running Shoes Are Based On A Kind Of Cult Idea - That Our Feet Are Flawed And We Need Shoes To Correct Those Flaws. The Shoe Companies Are In The Business Of Selling Shoes. But There's No Evidence From Running Shoe Manufacturers That They're Right. There's No Scientific Data That Running Shoes Reduce Injury.

The 'tarahumara' Use Their Legs 'as Designed.' By Running At A Young Age With Minimal Footwear, They Naturally Develop The Best Biomechanical Use Of Their Legs. Cushioned Shoes Restrict Foot Movements And Allow For Over-striding. Short Strides Are Natural.