Born to Run? How Raramuri Runners Dominate Ultra-Marathons in Sandals | NBC Left Field 

Fun Forus fuck yea! You think I was just fooling?

She is a beast

Savage ? Not to PC

I’m Mexican. Lots of indigenous people don’t smile or celebrate in front of cameras and some not even in front of others.

I have ran 5 marathons, including boston. but she has the heart of a true runner.

The best answer.

I yelled "hell yes" when she said that.

In reality she said she runs for the money. Sorry to break your hearts people. Hahaha.

Now, mestizos-mexicanos invade their ancestral Homeland...

just laughed so hard hehe

That was so funny😂😂

lol

There is no way you can't walk up an 800 metre hill, or get tired faster than a 5 year old child (no matter how much he is accustomed to running/walking), when you have the capacity to run 100K's... or were you already extremely exhausted by that point and just had to pick the easier route?

@@sven-sandershestakov3294 Where did I say I "ran" 100 km races? First of all, I said I mountain bike, not I run, I'm a terrible runner, I'm not made for running. Second, it wasn't a "hill", I distinctly said it was a "canyon", somewhat steeper than a mere hill, but if you don't believe me, that's OK.

@@majalca03 Haha, sorry I messed up, I'm very tired today

I've been there and I can totally back you up on how steep it is. I used the road to go back up and had to take breaks every 5-10 min because I was totally out of breath

@@sven-sandershestakov3294 Don't forget altitude. I think Chihuahua is like 2k above sea level. Differences in altitude and oxygen levels can make even the fittest athletes look like whimps near the locals who lived all their lives in that altitude.

Caballo*

Agreed! Just started it yesterday. Cant put it down.

our marching show this year is based off of that book:)

The worst part about Born to Run is that you become so enamored with the story and so connected with the characters that when you finish, you generally wish one of two things: 1.) That you could read it for the first time all over again 2.) That there was a sequel to it; even though you know it needs no sequel, you just want more Absolutely fantastic book

thank you so much for sharing this book title with us! ❤️🥰

Yey these humble hardworking Mexicans.... until you live in East Los Angeles 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'll stand behind or infront of these people

Yo these are not Mexicans these are indigenous people untouched by Spain’s influences

@@dagger1572 so what am I if I live in America? American no? Somebody living in mexico is a ??? Mexican!! Good job

THOMAS DONALDSON you do realize there is no such thing as Mexicans it’s the native ppl mixed with 🇪🇸 read a book

hah gayyyyy!

The body always adapts itself, just build up moderately.

Yeah you don't need shoes, or clothing, matter fact you don't even need food.

I can run barefoot pretty easily. On concrete and some types of rocks. But thorns are bad if you run over those every time.

@@popeyesailor8744 they barely have any of those things

They're not playing basketball or something

@@garrysekelli6776 What an idiot.

Garry Sekelli don’t be an ass hole adonis

I don’t believe it was mentioned, but running while kicking a ‘ball’, is quite common while running up and down those mnts, for those distances.

Where the apaches as well are from native Mexicans there as well

Are you white?

​@@hectorquezada1331 yaqui, yavapai, apache, dine, hopi, k'miai, cochimi

Only the strongest survive and flourish.

@@pookiehoney well their whole ancestors got whipped out pf earth so indont see how they flourished. Still mad respect for these people.

@@jeanpierrepolnareff9919 We're still here. Plenty of Native Americans in Mexico. They did not get "whipped out".

Jean Pierre Polnareff nah these people would’ve fcked up Europeans if it weren’t for gun power. Period

@@jeanpierrepolnareff9919 if their ancestors got wiped out how the fuck are they still here then???

The idea of North America is also irrelevant. None of these people thought about the concept of North, Central or South America. Not historically at least. They didn't even know about the concept of America. So calling them Native North Americans is not accurate either. To them they are simply Raramuri. Other groups simply refer to themselves as the tribe or clan they are from.

Morfo1010 Was their land, you mean.

@@joeowenstalkingsense4439 It's their land, we are guests in their land....

People through out history have been invading each other land. Take land though war and conquest. It was their land now it's not. They did the same to other tribes. They wiped out each other before we got here. Native American should stop feeling bad for them selves and start moving forward.

@@alanfelix527 But it never happened in such a huge scale as it did in the Americas. It was the biggest genocide of all time.

Apoco es tu prima???

Asi es que Dios los guarde siempre yo no soy raramuri.pero como si lo fuera.mi abuela era india de michoacan.mi abuelo español.y orgullosamente raza cruzada

Greyson Wayne leave Susan alone. She got a fatass ;)

I’m Susan

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My family still wears those sandals 😂😂🤣🤣

no

@@jmacgregor1773 lol.. yes actually

Oscar Maidana uhm wasn’t this the exact point this video was trying to make?

Maybe, but they're shorter so they have shorter strides.

@@outsidechambaz too stout of a build

Let me just add that alcohol and drugs are not the answer. Never have, never will if it comes to mental issues they are only numbing agents, that is it.

I dont see any runners in high altitude Colorado running like the Ramarumi.

@@jomana4517 Tinman athletes are a great distance running group. Maybe you are talking about ultra. Middle to Marathon distance is where the fame is at and where the competition is at

I read long ago that Native Americans had been linked to Tibet through DNA, being originally from Asia. I am Native and once had to be fit-tested to wear a respirator at a biochemical plant where I was working. In the mobile unit, a woman after testing asked if I was American Indian, I said," Yes..how did you know?" She said that American Indians have a higher lung capacity than whites or blacks. I don't smoke now, but I smoked back then also. I think we that maybe because we are adapted to higher altitudes that our lungs have a higher capacity. I also ran cross- country in high school, but only to get in shape for basketball. I am now 63 years old and my resting heart rate is about 54 to 55 BPM.

I read aztec autumn almost 20 years ago. I want to buy the collection.

I know right its like how east Africans run barefoot in the woods and mountains

Yesuf Abdulhakim chill Abdul they are native Americans

@@mimililihijab4036 either way thy are Mexicans by citizenship..and I love everything about that country, the People,the culture the food, errything.

@@mimililihijab4036 Mexica - Indigenous

Just be respectful and refer to them as Raramurí. Their identity as a people predates the concept of "Mexico".

The man in the thumbnail is so handsome

Davis Mcintire lmao they are probably talking about diet and exercise though

I think it was puma that tried sponsoring them and it just made them slower

so the poors we can't have a cell phone?

Lea TL he’s talking about having a phone while living a traditional (simple) lifestyle, doesn’t have anything to do with money

You can't live a simple life and have a smartphone?

Keefe 👍🏼

Lol

+Keefe That makes no sense dumbass. Tony Ferguson isnt a Raramuri. All Mexicans are not Raramuri dummy.

@@sarahlewis8038 You must be fun at parties.

LMAO ok

Everything is purely genetic, change some genes and you get a different species.

Lol what this isn’t a game white boy

No the indegounous people of Mexico are native Americans and don’t consider themselves as Mexicans Mexicans are mestizos

Perhaps species survival was also due to foraging behaviours and an omnivorous diet? Having access to as wide a range of foods as possible, including insects, eggs, fruits, seeds, nuts and vegetables, may have provided access to a broader nutritional base more consistent in its availability and accessible at relatively low calorific expenditure, which in turn would decrease the chances of prolonged starvation. We may also have been opportunists who included scavenging, or forcibly stealing prey from other predators as survival strategies.

@@proximacentaur1654 many contributing factors. One being a gut that can process and even thrive on an exceptionally broad number of foods from almost all animal products in the far north Inuit tribes to massive amounts of fruits in tropical regions. One of the biggest contributions was likely the ability to cook protein. Allowed for massive brain expansion as many nutrients both macro and micro we're made easily available for the body to process.

@@BeGrizzlyStrong Yes many contributing factors. Apparently (at least according to some academic research) there is material evidence indicating that the increase of average brain size as a species occurs in relatively small incremental steps over a long period of time, suggesting perhaps complex interactions between multiple causal inputs shaping the course of our evolution. Amongst those may be speciation events between hominid clades as a vehicle for propagating genetic change.

I have learn so much from this comment lol

@@proximacentaur1654 Great comment. The omnivorous diet certainly played a large role in human survival. Aside from brain power and tool ingenuity, being able to process a wide variety of food was undoubtedly crucial to special survival. The size of the modern human brain actually requires a significant amount of nutrition and hydration to operate at optimal capacity. The brain needs sugars, especially during childhood and adolescent development, which is why children will get themselves sick on candy and fruit and seem to have no limit. They have a rapidly developing brain that's looking for as much fuel as possible. The body can only eat so much before the stomach distends, but the developing brain overrides all other cut-off switches. It's why sugary foods are so tasty to our palate. We're hard-wired to deliver nutrition to our primary organ at the expense of everything else. Go easy on a kid that has a stomach ache from gorging on their Halloween candy. They're a slave to a rapidly growing brain that's demanding limitless energy and will take any warehouse deal. I have my doubts about prey theft as sustainable strategy. I seems like more trouble than it's worth. Eating fresh raw meat from ruminant, herbivorous animals is relatively safe due to a low risk for parasitic infection, but once a wolf or bear tears into the carcass, they tend to do so in a bite and grab method without regard for splitting open the GI tract. Once the intestines and other lower organs are ruptured, the meat is basically tainted and you're rolling the dice on deadly food poisoning. Intestinal shit is incredibly pervasive, so even after rinsing and cooking, you're going to have some level of turd nuance embedded in the meat. Not to mention the bacteria that predators carry in their mouths. The idea of harvesting a kill by another predator would likely be a last resort scenario. It's a high risk move trying to claim a tainted carcass from any dangerous animal. It's probably the reason who Homo Sapiens became adept at trapping, animal husbandry and crop cultivation.

Chris McDougal first introduce Raramuri to me. Weird that they called them Tarahumura before.

I know of some studies of UAM (one of the universities of Mexico City) that found that there might be a relation between the native mexicans slow metabolism with theur running capabilities, sadly there might also be a relationship between their slow metabolism with being prone to get diabetes. Plus the Rarámuri have always ran everywhere and is a way of life since childhood.

@@danpt2000 Tarahumara is a despective term that was used by the Mexicas (Aztecs) to name the rarámuri. That is why a rarámuri will never name themselves as Tarahumara. The term Tarahumara is still used because when the spanish stablished their colonies they studied the other native cultures from the tipical names given by the mexica, such as the tarahumara.

@@sebastianestrada4690 Perhaps slow metabolism causes more of the glucose to build up in the blood stream, therefore high blood sugar.

@@sebastianestrada4690 Then it looks like Wikipedia have made the mistake of using the term 'Tarahumara' interchangeably with the term 'Raramuri' - with no mention of the origins of term. It sounds like their descendants were resistance fighters against Spanish slave raids and evangelization. Maybe their lives depended on how fast and far they could run.