Quotes from Christopher McDougall

Ken estaba convencido de que había redescubierto un arte milenario, así que llamó a su estilo Running Evolution

Mira, tengo malas noticias —dijo—. No vas a ganar. Sin importar lo que hagas, vas a estar ahí fuera todo el día. Así que lo mejor será que te relajes, te tomes tu tiempo y lo disfrutes. Quédate con esto en la cabeza: si sientes que requiere demasiado esfuerzo, es que estás esforzándote más de la cuenta.

We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim, and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet.

Ultrarunners had no reason to cheat, because they had nothing to gain: no fame, no wealth, no medals. No one knew who they were, or cared who won their strange rambles through the woods.

Guadajuko," Martimano said. Cool by me.

When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'

Every summer, he leaves his hut and rides buses

Eric me había recomendado que iniciara mi viaje a la prehistoria yendo a Virginia para aprender bajo la tutela de Ken Mierke, un fisiólogo del ejercicio además de triatleta campeón mundial, a quien su distrofia muscular obligaba a reducir al mínimo, a la esencia misma, su estilo de correr. «Soy la prueba viviente del sentido del humor de Dios —le gusta decir a Ken—.

Pentru ca noi am reusit sa ne creem chiar aici, pe pamant, un clopot de sticla cu gravitatie zero. Am eliminat sarcinile pentru care corpul nostru a fost creat, iar acum platim pentru asta. Toti marii ucigasi ai lumii occidentale - bolile de inima, atacul cerebral, diabetul, hipertensiunea si nenumaratele forme de cancer - erau complet necunoscute stramosilor nostri. Nu aveau acces la medicina, dar cunoasteau cateva pasiente magice care o inlocuiau cu succes.

Eric creía que lo peor que uno podía hacer con un corredor a media carrera era darle falsas esperanzas. Lo que te hace tensar los músculos es aquello que no esperas; pero mientras sepas a qué atenerte, puedes relajarte y reducir o aumentar la intensidad según lo requiera el esfuerzo.

Caballo was content to just sit alone under a tree, smiling and sipping a beer,

Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, even other teams were delighted.

Como deporte, la mayoría de los entrenadores de atletismo colocaban a las ultramaratones en algún lugar entre las competencias de glotones y el sadomasoquismo recreativo.

Kairos was young and wing-footed and forever gorgeous, despite having no hair except a single shock over his forehead. Kairos is the god of golden opportunities and guardian of outlaws, and he could work wonders for you if you were quick enough to grab him by the forelock.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

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.

Kairos is the inspiration for the Cretan chestnut "Opportunity makes thieves." What matters is the timing, not the target—seize any opportunity, even if it's not the one you planned.

Relax enough, and your body becomes so familiar with the cradle-rocking rhythm that you almost forget you're moving. And once you break through to that soft, half-levitating flow, that's when the moonlight and champagne show up: "You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when to back off," Ann would explain.

We say the rarájipari is the game of life," Ángel said. "You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

La manera de activar tu quemador de grasa es manteniéndote por debajo de tu umbral aeróbico —el punto en que empiezas a respirar aceleradamente— a lo largo de la carrera. Antes del nacimiento de las zapatillas acolchadas y los caminos pavimentados era mucho más fácil respetar ese límite de velocidad.

Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

Practica la abundancia mediante la generosidad», y «Mejora tus relaciones personales», y «Demuestra que posees un sistema de valores íntegro». La dieta recomendada por Vigil era igual de escueta, deportiva o científicamente hablando. Su estrategia de nutrición para un aspirante a maratonista olímpico era: «Come como si fueras una persona pobre».

Look how they point their toes down, not up, like gymnasts doing the floor exercise. And their backs! They could carry water buckets on their heads without spilling a drop! How many years have I been telling my kids to straighten up and run from the gut like that?).

Running is just a controlled fall, so how do you steer and keep from smacking down on your face without a weighted rudder, like a kangaroo's tail?