192: Luis Escobar | A Running Life

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Luis Escobar has made a life around distance running. He has run with the Tarahumara who run as a way of life and with homeless people using running to get "back on their feet." If his name sounds familiar, he's also the ultrarunning photographer featured in Born to Run, by Chris McDougall. In this episode we ask him what it is about ultra running that draws him, about his trip to Copper Canyon, Mexico, about the Tarahumara, and about the obstacles we all face in life.

Lessons:
1. Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. 
2. When it feels like it's over and you get up and keep moving, that's when the magic happens. 
3. People who still live steeped in tradition and culture and who don't espouse material values are not poor. They often live a rich life.  

Links:
Back on My Feet https://www.backonmyfeet.org/
All We Do Is Run http://www.allwedoisrun.com/
Luis Escobar on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luis_escobar/

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

Synopsis – Matt Baatz

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0:00.0	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Four Sigmaic.
0:04.0	Join the mushroom coffee revolution at four Sigmaic.com
0:08.0	forward slash Spartan.
0:10.0	Welcome to Spartan Up podcast. We've got an awesome one today, Louise Escobar. I'm pumped.
0:16.0	Yeah, Louis Escobar. This guy is an incredible ultra runner. Unbelievable photographer.
0:20.0	I think he was born to run. Well, you know what, that's actually where he became very well known, is the born to run. Well you know what that's actually where he became very well known is
0:23.6	the the born to run the race in 2006 in the Copper Canyon Mexico the Taramar
0:27.8	Indians he really was a driving force behind all that but he's become a real
0:32.3	driving force in the running
0:33.3	community and the cool thing we interviewed him in Tahoe where he came to see what
0:37.3	Spartan Racers all about and and really saw some amazing synergies with that in the running community so we're going to learn
0:44.0	about that I'm pumped let's do it we are here at the Spartan Race World
0:48.6	Championships in absolutely gorgeous Squaw Valley Lake Tahoe I'm with Lewis Escobar and we're going to get
0:54.5	into who you are in a minute but you're not unfamiliar with those hills
0:56.8	right behind us. I've had some of the best and the worst days of my life in those
1:00.2	mountains right back there. Yeah I've been here before. Cool, cool. So the first time I ever heard of you, I was reading the book Born to Run, and you were this
1:08.0	mythical larger-than-life figure like everyone in the book was.
1:10.4	And then you're disappointed. Not at all. What happened? No, I feel very, very fortunate to have met you and other people in that world. And, you know, our
1:19.5	podcast that we do, it's about grit and resilience and people finding their path and the
1:25.3	challenges they come up against. And so I just know that your experiences, your
1:29.2	own experiences and the experience you've shared with people, you've got to deal with
1:32.4	a lot of ups and downs and things along the way.
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