Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Tuesday Attitude: Choppin' a cherry tree.

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." -EJ Mohn
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Wakinyan4 said...

Endurance...Aztec relay runners brought their king, Montezuma, news of the Spaniard Cortez' landing at Chianiztlan, covering 260 miles in relay fashion within 24 hours...An adult Apache could travel over the roughest terrain from 50 to 75 miles a day and keep this up for several days at a stretch...In the 1860's a messenger runner of the Mesquakie tribe in his mid-fifties ran 400 miles from Green Bay to the Missouri River to warn of an emminent attack...Around 1866 eight Tarahumara women contested a 100-mile race around an oblong mountain on a loop of some 7.7 miles. Two villages selected there faster runners. Having started at 6:30am by mile 92 only three women were left. Wild betting was to be a feature of the contest over the last few miles. It was two women from the same village who finished together in a little over 12 hours...Like other Native American Ultrarunners, they had eaten parched corn in the form of gruel, sweetened with sugar...So, boys and girls eat your sweetened gruel before class to gain endurance...;) excerpted from: In The Begiining: Native American Ultrarunners....

July 13, 2010 at 12:26 PM

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