Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

As a runner, I give this book a solid 10. By the end of it I was so inspired about running that I wanted to just go and run 50 miles right out the gate. I'm not even kidding (however, I thought better of that and decided to stick to my 5-mile jaunts). So, way to be super inspiring, Born to Run! But even if you're not a runner, there's fascinating stuff here: about the way we appear to have evolved to be the world's greatest distance-running species; about the way that modern, "advanced" running shoes tend to promote more injuries, not fewer injuries, than the cheapest shoes on the the market, than the shoes of yesteryear, than no shoes at all; about a tribe of people who--every single one of them--can achieve feats of endurance running that seem superhuman to us, but probably are in reach of all human beings.

~Katrina