“We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

—  Christopher McDougall

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

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American journalist and writer 1962

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