His mum: ‘you can be tough.’ His dad: ‘Do things. It’s about the relationship Jurek had with his parents and the lessons they gave him in life.
It’s about what makes a runner, and what makes the very best endurance runner.
The book is more than about running, though. Then for his third year, running with his friend Dusty, he won, in a time of 7hrs 10m. The first time he entered, Jurek came second, in 7hrs 44m. Then his friend Dusty won the Minnesota Voyageur race, and challenged Scott to enter. It was through skiing, and meeting his best friend, Dusty, that kept Scott fit through his adolescence and first years at university. Jurek was a self-confessed ‘red-neck’ growing up in the backwaters of Minnesota, hunting, meat-eating, chopping wood and cross-country skiing. When you pay a little more attention to the list, you note that at shorter distances (50k, 50m) he doesn’t always win his best successes come the harder/longer/hotter the race. At the back of Eat and Run, there’s a select list of his races and successes-many, although not all, of which Jurek won. He then went back and won the Copper Canyon ultra at the second attempt, and donated his winnings-paid in corn-to the tribe.īoth of those images-going back to win, and giving away his winnings-tell you a lot about Jurek the person. At the time Jurek was the runner the Indians most admired and respected, even though he came second in the first race. In the UK, Jurek came to fame as ‘the deer’ in Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, the NY Times bestseller telling the story about Caballo Blanco, the mysterious running Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, and the Copper Canyon ultramarathon race that pitted the Mexicans against invited Americans. Eat and Run is world class ultramarathoner Scott Jurek’s new half-autobiography, half-cookbook and tells the story of one of the greatest endurance athletes who has ever participated. V: vegan diet visions (hallucinations), vitamins, VO2 max, vomiting. A: Activate Isolate Stretching Technique addiction to running addicts, recovering as ultramarathoners aid stations. If you’re ever in doubt what a book’s going to be like, turn straight to the index. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
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