#8903

Clearing out my camera roll 8903/?

27.07.2016. Train num. 8902 (Sopron-Pécs) 28.07.2016. Train num. 8903 (Pécs-Sopron) Szombathely, Hungary

Encyclopedia of Badassery- Entry #8903: Acquaint yo’selfs with the Rarámuri people of the Copper Canyons region in NW Mexico - their name translates to ‘The Lightning-Footed People,’ and here’s why: when it comes to running shockingly long distances in shockingly short times, they’re pretty much unbeatable. Anthropologists in the 1800s reported that Rarámuri runners could ‘easily go 170 miles without stopping.’ In 1993, 55yr-old Victoriano Churro won the Leadville 100 ultramarathon in 20:03:33, wearing a pair of sandals he’d made from an old truck tire; the next year, a younger runner from his village did it again, but *his* time was 17:30:42 - shattering the previous course record by 25 MINUTES. Rarámuri runners crushed the Olympic marathon in 1928 and ‘68 - and complained that the race was too short. In 1971, a sports physiologist found that runners’ blood pressure *decreased* during a 5mi run, and that even when banging out consecutive 8min miles, Rarámuri men, women and children have a heart rate of around 130bpm. Subsisting on a high-starch, very low-protein diet, chainsmoking gnarly black tobacco cheroots, and drinking heroic amounts of cactus moonshine and beer (beer is actually the Rarámuri’s primary currency) ‘they defy every known rule of physical conditioning,’ yet speed along for literally hundreds of miles, and show almost no sign of fatigue or cumulative stress when they finish. Along with chronic health issues, crime, child abuse, and domestic violence are also unheard of among the Rarámuri - and they have responded to invasion, colonization, and most attempts to study their culture by retreating further and further into the remote canyon lands they’ve inhabited for centuries. Final fact: the Rarámuri largely disappeared from organized races in the mid-1990s - accounts differ as to why, but it seems that there is a cultural/philosophical disconnect between running as the people do at home vs. running like outsiders do - the Rarámuri had made their point, it seems, and that was that. #encyclopediaofbadassery https://www.instagram.com/p/B06SbJHlmT2/?igshid=149nkwv13h61z

sorry i didnt say more im just stunned