Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

by Christopher McDougall

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”

Coach Vigil believed you had to become a strong person before you could become a strong runner.

You don’t stop running because you get old, the Dipsea Demon always said. You get old because you stop running…

“If it feels like work, you’re working too hard”—so