LAS CRUCES – Octavio Casillas runs 20 or 30 miles a week. “I’m not much of a runner,” he said Thursday with a laugh. About three weeks ago, Casillas got new running shoes — a pair of huaraches, or ...

Harvard evolutionary biologist and running-form expert Daniel Lieberman doesn’t mess around when it comes to studying the most fascinating running cultures. Several years ago he published a ...

A Tarahumara woman is going viral after a photo surfaced on Facebook of her at a podium after winning a 50 km. race. María Lorena Ramírez, 22, reportedly beat out 500 athletes from a dozen different ...

How about running 47 miles in shoe-melting heat with just tire rubber strapped to your feet? A top American ultramarathoner ventures deep into Mexico’s Copper Canyons to learn the secrets of the ...

Last August’s leadville trail 100, the grueling ultra-marathon waged mostly above 10,000 feet, wasn’t your typical media-free, footpath-less-traveled ultra. Scott Tinley was there, with microphone in ...

The indigenous Mexican running game rarajipari is shining a new light on what it means to run long distances for fun and community. For the indigenous people of Mexico made famous in the bestselling ...

SIERRA TARAHUMARA, Mexico -- This region in the southwest portion of the northern border state of Chihuahua is known for its natural beauty. Here, among canyons, forests and mountain peaks, the ...

Ever since the publication of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, a barefoot and minimalist running trend has swept America, based on the author’s examination of Mexico's Tarahumara people. In case ...