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Born to Run

a Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
PAINFUL TRUTH No. 2: Feet Like a Good Beating AS FAR back as 1988, Dr. Barry Bates, the head of the University of Oregon’s Biomechanics/ Sports Medicine Laboratory, gathered data that suggested that beat-up running shoes are safer than newer ones. === The puzzling conclusion: the more cushioned the shoe, the less protection it provides. === FINAL PAINFUL TRUTH: Even Alan Webb Says “Human Beings Are Designed to Run Without Shoes” BEFORE Alan Webb became America’s greatest miler, he was a flat-footed frosh with awful form. === “I was a size twelve and flat-footed, and now I’m a nine or ten. As the muscles in my feet got stronger, my arch got higher.” === Hunkered in a valley two miles up in the Colorado Rockies, Leadville is the highest city in North America and, many days, the coldest (the fire company couldn’t ring its bell come winter, afraid it would shatter).