Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2022-12-08
Books mentioned on Born To Run Free (For a Lifetime) with Christopher McDougall + Eric Orton
Reaching your athletic peak is a laudable goal. But ambition extracts a physical and mental cost.
Rich Roll discussed Born to Run by Christopher McDougall.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Born to Run
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is a celebrated exploration of endurance running, human evolution, and the remarkable Tarahumara tribe of Mexico.
Discussed“on the one hand obviously we have Christopher McDougall here I want to hear all his amazing stories from his journeys emanating from Born to Run a book that you know we all fell in love with several years ago”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Born to Run
“at the time I wrote Born to Run the running bookshelf was pretty thin it was ultra marathon man which was a great adventure and then a bunch of stuff about how not to get chafed”
Passing Born to Run
“I was recalling attending a book event it must have been Born to Run had been out a little bit so maybe it was 2010 it was a book soup in West Hollywood”
Passing Born to Run
“if you know for the people who have not read more in Iran it's a kind of contextualize it a little bit”
Plugged Born to Run
“and that was my total orientation for Born to Run was like the sports movies I love the most are sports I don't give a crap about you know like Bulldog”
Plugged Born to Run
“and at the time I wrote Born to Run the running bookshelf was pretty thin it was ultra marathon man which was a great adventure”