It s a beautiful thing caballo says and smiles.
Born to run tarahumara sandals.
After observing the ancient and superhuman running culture of the tarahumara people in mexico mcdougall concluded that humans evolved running barefoot.
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 this book it says a hidden tribe super athletes and the greatest race the world.
Just shorts sandals and a bag of piñole.
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.
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.