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Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. you ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. you had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. and like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. we were born to run; we were born because we run.
-Christopher McDougall
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Distance Running Was Revered Because It Was

Christopher McDougall
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. you ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. you had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. and like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. we were born to run; we were born because we run.
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