2025-03-28
27 分钟In the first chapter of your book, you say that you went to visit the Native American tribe.
And I'm going to try and pronounce this the Tarahuma.
Tarahumara.
And they're famous for their long running?
Yes.
What did you learn about running from them?
Well, it's, you know, they have been famous for well over 100 years.
I mean,
many people have gone to study the Tarahumara and have commented on their amazing ability to run.
But what I really learned from them is that for them, physical activity is spiritual.
You know, there's this book, Born to Run,
that describes their running and calls them a hidden tribe of super athletes.
They're not hidden and they're not super athletes.
And the one thing that the book missed was
that the main impetus for the running they do these famous long distance races is
that it's a form of prayer.
It's really very beautiful and it's a metaphor for life and it's also an opportunity to bet and sports and all that.
It's all wrapped into one.
And what I've learned was
that this actually used to be almost universal among Native American populations.