Nice link!I don't understand what you mean about ambushed; unless the interviewer just made it all up, he seems to have said it pretty clearly. And there's more about it on the web here: http://www.janetober.com/2012/08/03/running-with-the-amish-and-christopher-mcdougall/
I like Chris McDougall but he got ambushed here on this about the Amish...they don't run. Chris probably just went along since he doesn't know squat about Amish people. I grew up around Amish and they would have to give up their native culture to do that... period.
I don't understand what you mean about ambushed; unless the interviewer just made it all up, he seems to have said it pretty clearly. And there's more about it on the web here: http://www.janetober.com/2012/08/03/running-with-the-amish-and-christopher-mcdougall/
Mokaman - CMcD lives in Amish country, and has for years, so I suspect he knows something of which he speaks.
Reading through those links it does seem as though there are different varieties of Anabaptists with the most reformed being the most likely to run. Perhaps you are more familiar with the ultra-conservative sects from your time growing up around them?
I've often wondered how this happened. After reading the book I went and made my first pair of sandals, I didn't go out there barefoot. That came a few months later.Good article. I'm glad to see that Mcdougall even admits "Born to Run" is not a book about barefoot running, and not sure how it even transformed into one.
See, I'm trying to remember exactly, but I think Ted runs in the book in vff's, not barefoot... I think his name is BAREFOOT Ted in the book, but I don't recall him actually going barefoot in the book.I think the book just makes such a case for 'running is not an artificial 'sport' it is a natural thing to do'. So even though Ted is the only barefooter, combined with the Raramuri running naturally in their huaraches, the overall impression is that 'this is something that human feet can do' so the shoes that others are wearing kind of fade into the background.
See, I'm trying to remember exactly, but I think Ted runs in the book in vff's, not barefoot... I think his name is BAREFOOT Ted in the book, but I don't recall him actually going barefoot in the book.
See, I'm trying to remember exactly, but I think Ted runs in the book in vff's, not barefoot... I think his name is BAREFOOT Ted in the book, but I don't recall him actually going barefoot in the book.