Book Review: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Hello readers!

I've decided to do a bit different format for the blog from now on than how I used to do it. To be honest, my life is kind of boring and if I were to stumble onto the blog and read a few posts, I'd probably quickly click off. I figure if I get bored writing about it, you all probably get bored reading about it. Although, this format may be just as boring, but we'll see. 

If you remember back for my New Year's resolution, one of my goals was to read 40 books this year. I'm already eight books in but I thought it would be kind of fun to pass on suggestions of what I've read by doing a book review every time I finish a book (there will still be a little bit about my life if interesting stuff happens, don't worry). I figure people are always asking for suggestions on books so why not give them an honest review of ones I read.

The first book to hit this list is Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.

It probably helps that I am in a running phase right now but even if I wasn't, this book is really motivational. It took a lot of time, and a little research, to convince myself that this isn't a fiction book. It's based around a tribe called the Tarahumara who live in Mexico's Copper Canyons but also talks about other ultra running events that led up to a group of Americans racing the Tarahumara over 100 miles in the canyon. The Tarahumara pretty much live to run, they'll run for hundreds of miles just for the fun of it and one of the big things in the book was that they don't suffer injuries, even though they only run in sandal-like shoes.

One of the major things I took from this book (other than the motivation to try and figure out how people can get in shape to run 100 miles over "ultra" hard trails) is the science behind the gear modern day humans use for so many things and how it can also be hurting us. Lastly, the author took a look back at our caveman days and found that after the ice age, we were built to be marathoners. While I don't think I'll ever be able to run 100 miles in a few days (or even want to for that matter), it amazes me that there are people fit enough out there to go that far and motivates me to continue with my jogging even though I'm slowly working my way over humps that aren't making motivation easy.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. I will read it again at some point and couldn't put it down when I was reading it. Even if you aren't into running or even science, this book is an awesome story that you can definitely think of as a fictional tale. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a book to read.

In life news:
Like I said before, not much is going on. My life has massively settled down since the beginning of the month and that's a welcome sight. I am currently writing stories catching up with the Derby winners from the past 20 years that you can see on followhorseracing.com but that's about all I have for you right now.

Have a great day everyone. 
-Mel