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November 1 - November 20, 2024
To endure a challenge like that, you had to possess all the Tarahumara virtues—strength, patience, cooperation, dedication, and persistence. Most of all, you had to love to run.
You don’t have to be fast. But you’d better be fearless.
“You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when to back off,”
“To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence,” Roger Bannister once noted. “But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.”
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they’d never forgotten what it felt like to love running.
Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.
Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked,” Caballo said.
“Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast.
instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get to know it so well, you’re not afraid of it anymore.
the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
“They know how to train, not strain.”
“Humans didn’t invent rough surfaces, Oso,” Ted said. “We invented the smooth ones. Your foot is perfectly happy molding itself around rocks.
when you can’t answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast—what makes it slow down?
Running was the superpower that made us human—which means it’s a superpower all humans possess.
You don’t stop running because you get old, the Dipsea Demon always said. You get old because you stop running….
“Just move your legs. Because if you don’t think you were born to run, you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.”
The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.
If it feels like work, you’re working too hard”—so
