Born to Run Farther with Dr. Irene Davis and Chris McDougall
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The Importance of Shoes in Running
Doctors would say your body isn't designed for this. You're too big. The impact's bad. Then I could have the copper canyon and I had this bizarre. Copper Canyon in Mexico where you find the Tahara Humara tribe. Yes. Some down there. And I think I'm going to find a group of people that are genetically predisposed to this. But what I also find is a guy who looks just like me. He's my same height, he's my same shoe size. When he came down to the Copper Canyon 15 years earlier, he had also been chronically injured. He got him mica true. It ain't the shoes, it's not the genetics
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