The first was a race the highest ultramarathon in the world the leadville 100 and the second is a book born to run by christopher mcdougall about that race.
Born to run tarahumara sandals.
True famously depicted in christopher mcdougall s bestselling 2009 book born to run wanted the race to help preserve the local culture of the tarahumara people who dress in sandals skirts.
The tarahumara are a tribe who live in the chihuahua state of mexico in the copper canyon of mexico and they became famous from two things.
Barefoot running sandals or minimalist sandals exploded alongside barefoot running after the bestselling book born to run was released by christopher mcdougall in 2009.
In recent years the story of the amazing tarahumara rarámuri runners from mexico exploded into international attention with the publication of christopher mcdougall s best selling 2009 book born to run.
Runners everywhere in 2009 naively tossed their shoes aside for a while and wanted to run like these ancient native americans from.
After observing the ancient and superhuman running culture of the tarahumara people in mexico mcdougall concluded that humans evolved running barefoot.
It s a beautiful thing caballo says and smiles.