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From Outside magazine and PRX, these are dispatches.

Stories from our writers in the field.

It's possible that no one has had a greater influence on modern recreational running than writer Christopher McDougal.

Back in 2008, he began working on a story about a little-known American ultra-running fanatic named Micah True, also known as Cabayo Blanco.

And he was writing about True's quest to put together a race that would showcase the running

culture of Mexico's Tarahumara Indians. That story became a book and that book was

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