Troubling story in the New York Times about federal prosecutors’ full-court press to squash ultrarunner Charlie Engle while letting Countrywide Mortgages’ ultra-slime slide. Weirdest twist: the feds even sent Jessica Rabbit after Engle. Scariest: if you drive a nice car, you could be next. Charlie has been blogging from prison. You can also see his…

Eric is the coach who first persuaded me I could transform myself, and then he made it happen. He’ll be with me in Boise, San Fran and LA, leading naked runs and teaching the same technique that got me down to the Copper Canyons. Like this:

Keep an eye on BornToRunChris on Twitter for up-to-the-second details on The Naked Tour. I’ll be posting from the road to let you know where we are, who showed up, and what’s going on. For instance: **Scott Jurek just send word that he’ll be at both Boston events — Harvard on April 15 and Boston…

On Friday, April 8, we’ll be holding a Naked Run Party at Zombierunners, the world’s coolest & smartest running store (Seriously. The Zombies’ shop is a vintage movie theater; they were on to minimalism before anyone else; and the Zombies were the first running store in the country to carry Born to Run). All kinds…

Let me stress, Rocket was not harmed in the shooting of this video. He totally loved the attention. Fire in your answers to info@chrismcdougall.com ****UPDATE: Wow. Matt the Barefoot Joggler already has an answer: Amazing how easy today’s question was. The stumbling part for a lot of people will be the term “head”, not knowing…

My sentimental favorite for first place is E. Stewart Moritz, who not only got the answer, but really got it: Mark Twain just springs off the page, doesn’t he?  Nobody else writes quite like that. Alas, it’s google-able, and I only just checked my RSS feed, so I know I’m too late. Still, what a…

The paperback release for Born to Run is in 5 days on March 29. That calls for a little gift-giving. First to email in with the answer to this question gets a free signed copy. So let’s see, what do I need… something trivia-ish but not trivial. Get-able, but not Google-able. Okay, I think I’ve…

From David Aronson, who also knew the cave-dwelling ultrarunner and one-time mentor of Caballo Blanco: I met Smitty, mentioned in your book, on Maui back in the early 70’s. He was experimenting with different foot coverings at the time such as duct tape, gauze and Thorlo socks in addition to his barefoot running. I even…

It pains me to report we had to cancel the Chicago stop on the Naked Tour. My apologies, but delays securing a big enough venue made it too much of a last-minute scramble.

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.” — William Blake Nature can refresh the brain…“Our senses change. They kind of recalibrate — you notice sounds, like these crickets chirping; you hear the river, the sounds, the smells, you become more connected to the physical…