Caballo Blanco Ultra Marathon (32)
Hundreds of amateur athletes set off at dawn Sunday for an ultramarathon through a sun-bleached canyon in northwestern Mexico, hoping to take their measure against legendary Indigenous runners in one of the world s most challenging distance events. The 20th Caballo Blanco Ultramarathon started in the village of Urique i...
The lessons they have learned from the Raramuri people Perhaps all our troubles all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can t overcome began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. Christopher Mcdougall Meet Sacramento residents Lorena...
Run Free The True Story of Caballo Blanco, a feature documentary directed by Sterling Noren, chronicles the life of American ultra running legend Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse) and his quest to create an ultra marathon in Mexico s Copper Canyon to promote and preserve Tarahumara running tradition.
(This article appeared in issue 38 of Trail Mag) If you re going through hell, keep going Winston Churchill. Wait, why exactly are you doing this again? , came the Nagging Voice, who sometimes joins me on my more adventurous runs. I d been running for more than seven hours under a merciless sun pelting down on me,
Travel Day 5: Urique, Mexico, Race Day I woke up at 4:15 am per the symphony of various alarm jingles in the tent grove. Being in a tent can be deceiving. You think you have your own little spot with privacy, but in fact you can hear each and every sound and movement from all the tents around you. Being in a little tent...