Cabollo Blanco is Missing!!!

As evidenced by the Trayshawn M. case, all whites, everywhere, are under attack.

If anyone knows about running in high desert areas it is him. I hope he is meditating in a cave somewhere.

It's hard to believe someone like him could get lost, but considering he was supposed to leave for Phoenix yesterday, you have to wonder what happened.

In all seriousness, didn't he say in BtR that when he was done he'd just go away.

This was in a commercial for the news tonight in Albuquerque.

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Micah True Where Are You!?

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_20282001/breaking-professional-runner-reported-missing-gila-wilderness

Apparently he was wearing running shoes.

I get it, everyone associated with Born to Run is a barefoot runner. Haha, hilarious! If you had brains enough to have read the book you'd know that he was not a barefoot runner. If you'd ever met Micah you'd know what he really thought of barefoot runners. Crawl back under your rock.

In the book, he comes across as a bit......unpredictable and very hard to pin down. Maybe he's perfectly OK and has everyone worried for nothing.

I read the book. I like the book. I'm not a BFR. I actually liked him the most because his portrayal is the most believable or at least I sympathize with his character the most. I can't meet everyone.

I can make a joke in a serious post. Sorry you can't get one.

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I read the book. I like the book. I'm not a BFR. I actually liked him the most because his portrayal is the most believable or at least I sympathize with his character the most. I can't meet everyone.

I can make a joke in a serious post. Sorry you can't get one.

You have truly proved what a complete idiot you are. Congrats.

Thanks for adding something relevant to the conversation.

As someone who has read Born to Run and knows several of the featured people and have met almost everyone (but not Micah True) I would suggest taking everything in the book with a grain of salt. It contains a large amount of exaggeration and aggrandizement.

huwtf wrote:

As someone who has read Born to Run and knows several of the featured people and have met almost everyone (but not Micah True) I would suggest taking everything in the book with a grain of salt. It contains a large amount of exaggeration and aggrandizement.

Congratulations! You've reached a new level of existence, in which you've realized that information streaming into your brain needs to be scrutinized. I had no idea that was the case.

Perhaps, BTR should be treated as an entertaining story. Wow. That's novel.

Have you guys read the book? There was only one barefoot runner in that story. The "others" had Indian style shoes that were minimalist. Does anyone here have a problem with using a light weight minimalist shoe for training?

I don't know the crowd here anymore but in college an post colliagate we used light fast shoes for long runs, road flats to work out in (that's a lot when you are pumping out 12k of work) and did barefoot strides once a eek or so.

I wish I would have done 1-2 cool downs a week running bare foot on that beautiful Stanford grass but I didn't know what I had until it was gone.

Within the trend of barefoot running, there is a sub-trend of not believing the exaggerations of the events in BtR. This is truly an elite segment of that elite group.

However, there is a little-known splinter of that group that actually believes every last word of the book, and only hides behind the guise of non-belief in order to keep out the come-laters and keep their ranks pure.

NEX UT SECUUTUS!!!!!

I hope he is OK! But if he is still gone...

BTW, I read BtR and loved it. I was a little disappointed to find out that all wasn't exactly true, but hey, I'm over it now and still felt inspiration from the book.

huwtf wrote:

As someone who has read Born to Run and knows several of the featured people and have met almost everyone (but not Micah True) I would suggest taking everything in the book with a grain of salt. It contains a large amount of exaggeration and aggrandizement.

That seems to be a consensus, esp. regarding Shelton.

I've had the fortune of meeting Micah, a few years back after the book came out but before it got huge. If anything, he was more friendly and sociable than the reclusive and elusive character described in the book.

...which makes it even more tragic...

I listened to Micah True when he was the guest speaker the night before the 2009 Javelina Jundred in Arizona. He showed slides and talked about his experiences with the Tarahumara. A very good man.

Here's a Denver Post article:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20282336/boulder-ultrarunner-micah-true-missing-after-going-run

I sure hope he's OK.

Any updates?