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Speed Demons (February 2010)
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that the Tarahumara Indians are mind-blowing runners. The words "lightning," "endurance," and "?!?!?" spring to mind when we contemplate them. As Chad muses on page 23, "Could anyone learn to live this way? Or are these folks built differently from the rest of us?" Pwt races away without giving a satisfactory answer, so here's your turn to help out. Chad wants to know your opinion: could you learn to run for hundreds of miles on a diet of ground corn and barbequed mouse? Or are the Tarahumara a different, special kind of human being?
I think that maybe it would be possible to be able to run for a long distance like the Tarahumara people. But, even though it might work, it would take time to adapt to the new diet..
(February 4, 2010 - 9:43 pm)
i think one was a good runner, and they just ran and ran for geneations it became a genetic thing.
the apple never falls far from the tree!
(February 5, 2010 - 8:37 am)
i think we could all easily run like that if we got on their diet and trained with them, and if so many americans would get their eyes off of a screen and get outside.
(February 21, 2010 - 8:28 pm)
I would never be able to do that. I'm sure some people could, but I would die. I eat like a cow, and run about as fast as a toy hamster with low batteries (yet still I manage to be under weight, hmmm.) I tried out for school track team and came in two minutes after everyone else on the 400m (thats once around the track), and I practically fell down just looking at the Hurdles. But enough about me. The point is, these Tarahumara people are amzing, and I gotta say they do have something special. If anyone else thinks they can do what the Tarahumara do, please tell me so that I can praise your athletic abilities that I most certainly lack.
(February 24, 2010 - 5:58 pm)
Let me admit, I'm a pretty fast runner, but I need a gallon of water after the Cross Country Run we have at our school! (for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, and I'm in 4th grade) I got 3rd. But I just couldn't adjust to a diet like the Tahumara people! And barbequed mouse? Ground corn's okay, but that? GAG! It is also CRUEL! Unless the mouse was evil and was trying to destroy the earth. Or had rabies. But then, would you eat that? (And then Mariah calls me a picky eater. So do the Muses.)
(March 3, 2010 - 10:11 pm)
It must be something to do with their diet. Whenever I run fast for a long time, I get a cramp in my side. My record for running is 8 minute mile, I don't know how that happened as I got a 14 minute mile in 5th grade. So I think if we all lived in a remote area with no TV and a diet of barbecued rats, I'd say we would be better runners. Also those poeple have been running for a long time. It's not like they woke up one day and said, "Let's be the fastest runners in the world even though yesterday we all had 14 minute miles."
(March 20, 2010 - 11:14 am)
Cramp on your side- Sometimes, you can get cramps like that from not breathing out properly. At least, that's what it was for me. If you start slow and concentrate a bit, you get into a rhythm and the only problem would be fatigue.
Personally, I think I could do that- with the right training, and a slow start. On the other hand, my mother runs, my aunt even qualified for the american olympic team and I go running 3x a week (or try). I wish I could train more intensively, but otherwise I wouldn't have the time to do my homework and study (okay, I spend most of my free time on MB or procrastinating or watching tv shows).
The barbecued rats- It sounds kind of disgusting, but I'm that they helped. If you've ever tried to go jogging after an all-you-can-eat chinese buffet, you know what I mean. Fatty foods before running = nausea.
(March 20, 2010 - 12:04 pm)
In this magazine article, it talked about running an antelope to death. Well, I tried this with a neighborhood dog, and ... it didn't go so well. At ALL
(May 14, 2010 - 8:21 pm)
Not happening.
(June 14, 2010 - 2:31 pm)
I, being a vegetarian, start to cry when I think of those poor mice. But ground corn sounds yummy.
(June 15, 2010 - 7:23 pm)