TEDxPhoenixville - Christoper McDougall - Barefoot Running

Author of the New York Times Bestseller, "Born to Run," Chris shares his conviction that the secret to happiness is right at your feet with sharp wit and wild exuberance.


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[blayman92]

No, I don't think we would run everywhere.But we would to catch food. If the race is long enough a man can outrun a horse any day. We are way more efficient runners. It's possible for humans to run for days on end. A lot of other animals can't do that because they can't lose heat by sweating. Everything from specialized tendons in our neck to our foot structure suggests we we're built to run long distances.

[korvix]

@blayman92 really, u think humans did ran all day long ?

they did hike for hours at slow pace

[blayman92]

@korvix Evolutionary anthropologists would disagree.

[korvix]

Let the horse do the running, humans have never been endurance runnners.

They walked a lot, and sprinted occasionally to hunt down an animal or get a way from instant danger

[stubey32]

8:14 “For too much of our existence we’ve correlated running w/ fear & pain & injury. But there’s something else there, something much more powerful & that’s the motivation and the energy of pleasure and of fun.”

15:00 “[The Tarahumara] have stripped running back to first principles: bare feet & a sense of relaxation & pleasure.”

[BULLETXTC]

@ZarlanTheGreen STFU

[aikirunner]

Focus on Easy. We're always racing to get somewhere. You're right we all need to find the joy in running or life and focus on easy. An old time running coach, Ernst VanAaken, said: "Run slowly, run daily, drink moderately and don't eat like a pig." I think the run slowly was lost in translation. I think in German he said run easy.

[ZarlanTheGreen]

Nice.

I love the stuff about Barefoot Ted at Leadville :)

The tarahumara, didn't strip away stuff though.

You can't strip away what you didn't have in the first place.

Also, they may be barefoot a lot, but don't they generally wear sandals? (a very nice kind of sandals. Not as good as being barefoot, but...)

Also, doing something wise and knowing that it is wise and why (i.e. actually being wise), are two VERY separate things.

Oh, and the thing with panda reproduction has been solved.