Make Friends With Pain, And You Will

Nearly All Runners Do Their Slow Runs Too Fast, And Their Fast Runs Too Slow." Ken Mierke Says. "so They're Just Training Their Bodies To Burn Sugar, Which Is The Last Thing A Distance Runner Wants. You've Got Enough Fat Stored To Run To California, So The More You Train Your Body To Burn Fat Instead Of Sugar, The Longer Your Limited Sugar Tank Is Going To Last." -the Way To Activate Your Fat-burning Furnace Is By Staying Below Your Aerobic Threshold--your Hard-breathing Point--during Your Endurance Runs.

Were Designed For Persistence Hunting, Which Is A Mix Of Running And Walking. Whats Built Into That Kind Of Running Is A Sense Of Pleasure. You Are Designed And Built And Perfect For This Activity, And It Should Be Enjoyable And Fun.

That Was The Real Secret Of The Tarahumara: They'd Never Forgotten What It Felt Like To Love Running. They Remembered That Running Was Mankind's First Fine Art, Our Original Act Of Inspired Creation. Way Before We Were Scratching Pictures On Caves Or Beating Rhythms On Hollow Trees, We Were Perfecting The Art Of Combining Our Breath And Mind And Muscles Into Fluid Self-propulsion Over Wild Terrain. And When Our Ancestors Finally Did Make Their First Cave Paintings, What Were The First Designs? A Downward Slash, Lightning Bolts Through The Bottom And Middle-behold, The Running Man.

Even Charles Darwin, That Human Decoder Ring Of Bizarre Behavior, Found The Idea Of Saving A Stranger's Life To Be A Total Head-scratcher.

Try The Meditation Of The Trail, Just Walk Along Looking At The Trail At Your Feet And Don't Look About And Just Fall Into A Trance As The Ground Zips By," Kerouac Wrote. "trails Are Like That: You're Floating Along In A Shakespearean Arden Paradise And Expect To See Nymphs And Fluteboys, Then Suddenly You're Struggling In A Hot Broiling Sun Of Hell In Dust And Nettles And Poison Oak... Just Like Life.