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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
(Christopher McDougall)

The Barefoot Running Book: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of Barefoot and Minimalist Shoe Running
(Jason Robillard)

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
(Haruki Murakami)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
07.17.2011
 (was 08.29.2010)

Everything you know about running is wrong. At least, that's the view right now according to some of the latest science in fitness and exercise. Think running is bad for your knees, that prescriptive running shoes tailored to your feet help avoid injury? That stretching is good for you before you run? New research is challenging some of our most trusted advice about running and exercise. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking running. Also, the barefoot revolution.

  1. Christopher McDougall on the Tarahumara tribe

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    The Tarahumara tribe of Mexico grow up running barefoot and live very long lives happily running into advanced old age...

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  2. Gretchen Reynolds on Running Myths

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    Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.

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  3. Jason Robillard on Barefoot Running

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    Jason Robillard is a barefoot ultramarathon runner and founder of Barefoot Running University.

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  4. Jim Fleming reads Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"

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    Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."

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