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A Story About Running
Bard College Bard Digital Commons Senior Projects Spring 2018 Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects Spring 2018 Contact! A Story about Running Sara Bosworth Bard College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2018 Part of the Nonfiction Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Bosworth, Sara, "Contact! A Story about Running" (2018). Senior Projects Spring 2018. 305. https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2018/305 This Open Access work is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been provided to you by Bard College's Stevenson Library with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this work in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights- holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Contact! A Story about Running By Sara Bosworth Contact! A story about running Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College By Sara Bosworth Annandale-on-Hudson, New York May 2018 For Neno Acknowledgements SUSAN ROGERS, my beloved editor who always encouraged me to push more, go a bit further. Without you, this project never would have found its shape. Who knows, if I had you at the sidelines, maybe I could run a fifty-mile race after all. WYATT MASON, a dear mentor who has made me a better writer and a clearer thinker. -
Born to Run Summary
Born to Run Summary By Christopher McDougall 'The best runner leaves no tracks' (Tao Te Ching). Born to Run is an eclectic and deeply fascinating exploration of running. Weaving together folklore, cutting edge science, anthropology, investigative journalism, and lashings of bravery and determination, McDougall seeks to find out once and for all if humans are supposed to run. It all began with the simple question, 'How come my foot hurts?' In a bid to answer this, McDougall approached the best sports medicine specialists in the US, and asked the best brains in the field why incidents of running injuries are so high. Dr. Torg, who is in large part to thank for the field of sports medicine, proclaimed, 'Running is your problem.' When a world-renowned expert warns you off running, and backs this up with statistics that eight out of ten runners are injured or hurt every year, it's hard to argue. Nonetheless, our author went for a second opinion. The opinion was the same. In the world of running, the outliers are the ones who are injury-free. Still, this notion of humans "aren't supposed to run," nagged at McDougall, and he couldn't accept that something so natural should be so bad for us. And then, through a serendipitous act of good fortune, he came across the mysterious Tarahumara (or Rarámuri) and a group of other eccentric individuals who were throwing anything but caution to the wind when it came to pushing their bodies. We'll briefly explore one of the most captivating stories on endurance, humanity, empathy, and joy. -
Caballo Blanco's Final
Caballo BLANCO’S FINAL RUN A group of Canadian adventure racers helped search for Photos Heffernan/Aurora Ryan Photo: Micah True (“Caballo Blanco”), one of the stars of Born to Run. He disappeared on a trail run in New MExico. By Simon Donato » Micah True smiles while crossing the Urique River during the 2010 Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon in Urique, Chihuahua, Mexico 60 Canadian Running September & October 2012 Marcos Ferro/Aurora Photos Photo: » Micah True after finishing the 2009 Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon in Urique, Chihuahua, Mexico runningmagazine.ca 61 Top left » Micah True with girlfriend Maria Walton Above » Micah True and Scott Jurek in 1996 in the Copper Canyon, Mexico, holding a bag of Tarahumara pinole corn, a food for the Tarahumara Indians Far left » Micah True’s dog, Guadajuko Left and below » Micah True in Orcutt, California, in 2011 n Sunday morning, we decided to go rogue. Micah True had already been missing for over O 100 hours, and we were discouraged by the pace of the search and how we were being deployed. The previous day, Tim, Caleb and I had been assigned to spend the day with another search team, walking through territory that had already been searched the day before. Most of the trails in the area had been searched twice. With the chances of finding True alive dropping with every hour, we knew it was time to stop thinking like search-and-rescue commanders, and start thinking like trail runners. Micah True – better known as Caballo Blanco, or “white horse” in Spanish – had disappeared while out for a solo 12-mile trail run in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness on the morning of Tuesday, March 27. -
BORIS! to RUN Les Vrais Héros Du Livre Culte
AVRIL 13 BORIS! to RUN les vrais héros du livre culte Best-seller aux Etats-Unis, le livre culte à l'origine du développement du mouvement minimaliste est désormais disponible en version française. Ses incroyables personnages, dignes d'une fiction, Michael Randali Hickman sont bien réels. Suivez- fut boxeur avant de se mettre a courir a la mode nous sur les traces de ces tarafiumara, avec de pauvres sandales en héros singuliers de la caoutchouc Grâce a Bom course à pied. Et comme to run, un mythe est ne nous, dévorez le livre ! • PAR PATRICIA OUDIT arti sur les traces de la tri bu des Tarahumaras ultra runners naturels qui carburent a la biere et aux céréales sans jamais avoir la moindre lendl Starring travers monts et plages d Amerique centrale mieP, I auteur Christopher McDougall donne Coppei Canyon devient son refuge hiver vie a des personnages qu on croirait tout droit Caballo Blanco nal lorsqu'il fait la connaissance de Mar sortis de son imagination Alors, au début, tiamo Cervantes, un coureur tarahumara, on se pose la question, on googhse des noms Le Cheval blanc Alias Micah True Mi durant la Leadville 100 en 1994 C est a cette Ces gens délirants existent ils vraiment7 Et chael Randali Hickman de son vrai nom epoque, malgre des problèmes persistants ce bout de Mexique au relief impraticable, ou Presente au début du livre comme un de cheville, qu'il adopte les pratiques des se trouve t-il au juste? Et puis, non, tout est < fantôme >, une sorte de < version locale Tarahumaras en courant comme eux avec vrai La Barranca del Cobre et -
Mcdougall, Christopher
2 To John and Jean McDougall , my parents , who gave me everything and keep on giving 3 CHAPTER 1 To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE M ICHAELS , Fugitive Pieces FOR DAYS, I’d been searching Mexico’s Sierra Madre for the phantom known as Caballo Blanco—the White Horse. I’d finally arrived at the end of the trail, in the last place I expected to find him—not deep in the wilderness he was said to haunt, but in the dim lobby of an old hotel on the edge of a dusty desert town.! “Sí, El Caballo está ,” the desk clerk said, nodding. Yes, the Horse is here. “For real?” After hearing that I’d just missed him so many times, in so many bizarre locations, I’d begun to suspect that Caballo Blanco was nothing more than a fairy tale, a local Loch Ness mons-truo dreamed up to spook the kids and fool gullible gringos. “He’s always back by five,” the clerk added. “It’s like a ritual.” I didn’t know whether to hug her in relief or high-five her in triumph. I checked my watch. That meant I’d actually lay eyes on the ghost in less than … hang on. “But it’s already after six.” The clerk shrugged. “Maybe he’s gone away.” I sagged into an ancient sofa. I was filthy, famished, and defeated. I was exhausted, and so were my leads. Some said Caballo Blanco was a fugitive; others heard he was a boxer who’d run off to punish himself after beating a man to death in the ring. -
Endurance Running in the United States: a History of the 20Th and Early 21St Century Luke Francis Ponnet Concordia University - Portland
Concordia University - Portland CU Commons Undergraduate Theses Spring 2016 Endurance Running in the United States: A History of the 20th and Early 21st Century Luke Francis Ponnet Concordia University - Portland Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.cu-portland.edu/theses Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Ponnet, Luke Francis, "Endurance Running in the United States: A History of the 20th and Early 21st Century" (2016). Undergraduate Theses. 134. http://commons.cu-portland.edu/theses/134 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by CU Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Theses by an authorized administrator of CU Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Ponnet 2 Endurance Running in the United States: A History of the 20th and Early 21st Century A senior thesis submitted to The Department of Humanities College of Theology, Arts & Sciences In partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in History by Luke Francis Ponnet Faculty Supervisor W-Z,S-(lo Dr. Gerd Horten Date Department Chair Dr. Ceiridwen Terrill Date Dean, College of Theology, Arts, & Sciences 4/d-1/N, J I Dr. David Kluth Date Provost Dr. Mark Wahlers Date Concordia University Portland, Oregon April, 2015 Ponnet 3 Abstract Endurance running is a unique niche of American culture, with its own components and history. It has significantly increased in participation over the last half century, which is what sparked my curiosity and interest. I investigate the history of endurance running through three chapters. In order for the reader to get acquainted with the sport and running community, I first focus on the history of three races.