{"id":5277,"date":"2009-12-21T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2009-12-08T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:16:09","slug":"marathon-how-adorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/marathon-how-adorable\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon? How adorable."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Imagine a race of superhumans capable of tearing off 300-mile jaunts on foot in fits of blinding speed than span days on end with little sustenance.\u00a0 They exist in a remote region of the planet Earth away from all human beings.\u00a0 They are impervious to most disease and live to an extraordinary age.\u00a0 Oh yeah, they don’t wear shoes.<\/p>\n

Now, stop imagining.\u00a0 They are the Tarahumara tribe from Mexico’s Copper Canyons.\u00a0 Perhaps the secret to their powers is their geographic remoteness or lack of roads to their hidden homes carved out of rock.\u00a0 To get even somewhat close to the Tarahumara requires traversing perilous terrain guarded by bands of murderous drug cartels.<\/p>\n

The author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, Christopher McDougall, is an aspiring runner plagued by injury.\u00a0 He seeks out this mythical people to learn of their secrets.\u00a0 He discovers a peaceful and protectively withdrawn people that crosstrains for their multimarathon races with gallons of corn beer and nightlong dancing jags.\u00a0 What’s amazing about this New York Times bestseller is that isn’t fantasy at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine a race of superhumans capable of tearing off 300-mile jaunts on foot in fits of blinding speed than span days on end with little sustenance.\u00a0 They exist in a remote region of the planet Earth away from all human beings.\u00a0 They are impervious to most disease and live to[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[946,948,947,945,233],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-endurance","tag-long-distance-running","tag-marathon","tag-runners","tag-running"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1n7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}