Are we born to run? | Christopher McDougall

Translator: Jordi Bosch Díez Reviewer: Rafel Marco i Molina

Running: it's basically just right, left, right, left, yeah?

Córrer és "ara dreta, ara esquerra", oi?

I mean, we've been doing it for two million years,

Ho hem fet durant 2 milions d'anys,

i potser és un pèl agosarat pensar

so it's kind of arrogant to assume that I've got something to say

que hi tinc res a dir,

that hasn't been said and performed better a long time ago.

que altres no hagin dit abans.

But the cool thing about running, as I've discovered,

El millor de córrer, per experiència,

és que hi passen

is that something bizarre happens in this activity all the time.

coses estranyes sovint. Un exemple:

Case in point: A couple months ago, if you saw the New York City Marathon,

Fa mesos, a la Marató de Nova York,

us asseguro que hi hauríeu vist

I guarantee you, you saw something that no one has ever seen before.

una cosa absolutament mai vista.

An Ethiopian woman named Derartu Tulu turns up at the starting line.

Una dona etíop, la Derartu Tulu,

es presenta a la línia de sortida.

Té 37 anys,

She's 37 years old.

She hasn't won a marathon of any kind in eight years,

i en fa 8 que no ha guanyat cap marató.

Uns mesos abans

and a few months previously,

she had almost died in childbirth.

gairebé va morir en donar a llum.

Derartu Tulu was ready to hang it up and retire from the sport,

La Derartu Tulu era a punt de retirar-se,

però va decidir apostar fort

but she decided she'd go for broke

and try for one last big payday in the marquee event,

per embutxacar-se una bona picossada

a la prova més important,

the New York City Marathon.

la Marató de Nova York.

Except -- bad news for Derartu Tulu -- some other people had the same idea,

Ves per on, la Derarta Tulu no era l'única.

També hi era la campiona olímpica,

including the Olympic gold medalist,

i la Paula Radcliffe, una fera,

and Paula Radcliffe, who is a monster,

la maratoniana més ràpida de la història.

the fastest woman marathoner in history by far.

Only 10 minutes off the men's world record,

A 10 minuts del rècord mundial masculí.

La Paula Radcliffe és invencible.

Paula Radcliffe is essentially unbeatable.

És la seva prova.

That's her competition.

En començar, la Derartu no és ni entre les aspirants,

The gun goes off, and -- I mean, she's not even an underdog;

ella en va al darrere.

she's, like, under the underdogs.

But the under-underdog hangs tough,

Però l'aspirant a aspirant resisteix.

I al km 35 d'una cursa de 42,

and 22 miles into a 26-mile race,

there is Derartu Tulu, up there with the lead pack.

la Derartu Tulu és allà,

amb el grup capdavanter.

Now, this is when something really bizarre happens.

Llavors passa una cosa ben estranya.

Paula Radcliffe, the one person who is sure to snatch the big paycheck

La Paula Radcliffe, que ben segur que li prendrà

el premi a l'aspirant Derartu Tulu,

from Derartu Tulu's under-underdog hands,

de sobte, s'agafa la cama i es va quedant enrere.

suddenly grabs her leg and starts to fall back.

So we all know what to do in this situation, right?

Tots sabem què cal fer, oi?

Clavar-li un cop de colze

You give her a quick crack in the teeth with your elbow

i sortir disparats cap a la meta.

and blaze for the finish line.

Derartu Tulu ruins the script.

Però la Derartu Tulu se salta el guió.

Instead of taking off,

En lloc d'accelerar,

she falls back and she grabs Paula Radcliffe,

espera la Paula Radcliffe,

and says, "Come on. Come with us. You can do it."

i l'anima: "Vinga. Vine. Tu pots".

So Paula Radcliffe, unfortunately, does it.

La Paula Radcliffe, per desgràcia, se'n surt.

Connecta amb les líders

She catches up with the lead pack

and is pushing toward the finish line.

i corre cap a la meta.

But then she falls back again.

Però, llavors es torna a quedar.

The second time, Derartu Tulu grabs her and tries to pull her.

La Derartu l'agafa i li marca el pas.

La Paula Radcliffe li diu:

And Paula Radcliffe, at that point, says, "I'm done. Go."

"No puc. Vés-te'n."

So that's a fantastic story, and we all know how it ends.

Quina gran història, tots en sabem el final.

She loses the check,

Ella perd el premi,

but she goes home with something bigger and more important.

però se'n torna amb una cosa més important.

Except Derartu Tulu ruins the script again.

Llavors, la Derartu Tulu es torna a saltar el guió.

Instead of losing, she blazes past the lead pack and wins.

En lloc de perdre, avança les líders com una fletxa

Wins the New York City Marathon,

i guanya la Marató de Nova York,

goes home with a big fat check.

i se'n torna a casa amb el xec.

It's a heartwarming story,

És una història encoratjadora,

but if you drill a little bit deeper,

però si us hi fixeu bé,

you've got to sort of wonder about what exactly was going on there.

el que va passar us hauria de sorprendre.

When you have two outliers in one organism,

Dos valors atípics en un organisme,

no és casualitat.

it's not a coincidence.

When you have someone who is more competitive and more compassionate

Que fos més competitiva i més compassiva

que les altres de la cursa, tampoc ho és.

than anybody else in the race, again, it's not a coincidence.

Si un animal és palmípede i té brànquies,

You show me a creature with webbed feet and gills;

somehow water's involved.

l'aigua hi té a veure.

Someone with that kind of heart, there's some kind of connection there.

Algú amb aquest cor... Hi ha d'haver una connexió.

And the answer to it, I think, can be found

I la resposta, crec que

es troba a les Barrancas del Cobre, a Mèxic,

down in the Copper Canyons of Mexico,

where there's a reclusive tribe, called the Tarahumara Indians.

on viu una tribu solitària,

els indis tarahumares.

Now, the Tarahumara are remarkable for three things.

Els tarahumares destaquen per tres coses.

La primera és

Number one is:

they have been living essentially unchanged for the past 400 years.

que han estat vivint igual

en els darrers 400 anys.

When the conquistadors arrived in North America you had two choices:

Els conqueridors d'Amèrica deixaven dues opcions:

plantar-los cara i lluitar o fugir.

you either fight back and engage or you could take off.

Els maies i els asteques hi van lluitar,

The Mayans and Aztecs engaged,

per això en queden ben pocs.

which is why there are very few Mayans and Aztecs.

The Tarahumara had a different strategy.

Els tarahumares tenien una altra estratègia.

They took off and hid

Van fugir i es van amagar

in this labyrinthine, networking, spider-webbing system of canyons

en una xarxa laberíntica,

una teranyina de canyons

anomenada Barrancas del Cobre,

called the Copper Canyons.

And there they've remained since the 1600s,

i s'hi van quedar cap al 1600,

i viuen gairebé igual des de llavors.

essentially the same way they've always been.

The second thing remarkable about the Tarahumara is:

El segon tret destacable és

deep into old age -- 70 to 80 years old --

que a edats avançades, 70, 80 anys,

these guys aren't running marathons;

aquests paios no fan maratons,

they're running mega-marathons.

corren megamaratons.

They're not doing 26 miles,

No corren 42 km,

they're doing 100, 150 miles at a time,

en fan 160 o 250 d'una tirada,

and apparently without injury, without problems.

i sense lesions ni problemes.

The last thing that's remarkable about the Tarahumara is:

El seu darrer tret destacable

all the things we're going to be talking about today,

és que dels problemes actuals,

tot allò que intentem solucionar

all the things we're trying to use all of our technology

fent ús de la tecnologia i del nostre cervell:

and brain power to solve --

things like heart disease and cholesterol and cancer;

malalties cardiovasculars, càncer,

el crim, la guerra, la violència i les depressions...

crime, warfare and violence; clinical depression -- all this stuff --

Els tarahumares no n'han sentit mai a parlar.

the Tarahumara don't know what you're talking about.

Estan alliberats

They are free from all of these modern ailments.

de les malalties modernes.

I doncs, quina és la connexió?

So what's the connection?

Un cop més, els valors atípics.

Again, we're talking about outliers;

Hi ha d'haver algun tipus de causa-efecte.

there's got to be some kind of cause and effect.

Hi ha equips de científics

Well, there are teams of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah

a Harvard i a la Universitat de Utah

trencant-se el cap per esbrinar

that are bending their brains and trying to figure out

el que els tarahumares sempre han sabut.

what the Tarahumara have known forever.

They're trying to solve those same kinds of mysteries.

Intenten resoldre els mateixos misteris.

And once again, a mystery wrapped inside of a mystery --

Un misteri, embolicat en un altre misteri...

perhaps the key to Derartu Tulu and the Tarahumara

Potser la clau per a la Derartu Tulu i els tarahumares

està amagada en tres misteris més.

is wrapped in three other mysteries, which go like this:

Three things -- if you have the answer, come up and take the microphone,

Tres coses. Si ho sabeu, agafeu el micro,

perquè ningú en sap la resposta.

because nobody else knows the answer.

I si ho sabeu, sereu els més llestos del món.

If you know it, you're smarter than anybody on planet Earth.

Misteri número u:

Mystery number one is this:

Fa 2 milions d'anys, el cervell va créixer de cop.

Two million years ago, the human brain exploded in size.

L'Australopitecus el tenia com un cigró.

Australopithecus had a tiny little pea brain.

Llavors, apareixen els humans, l'Homo erectus,

Suddenly humans show up, Homo erectus, big old melon head.

amb un cap com un meló.

To have a brain of that size,

Per a un cervell tan gran,

you need to have a source of condensed caloric energy.

cal una font de calories concentrada.

In other words, early humans are eating dead animals --

És a dir, els primitius menjaven animals morts,

no n'hi ha dubte, és evident.

no argument, that's a fact.

L'únic problema és

The only problem is,

the first edged weapons only appeared about 200,000 years ago.

que les primeres armes tenen 200.000 d'anys.

Així que durant 2 milions d'anys,

So somehow, for nearly two million years,

we are killing animals without any weapons.

vam matar animals sense armes.

Now, we're not using our strength,

No era gràcies a la força

because we are the biggest sissies in the jungle.

perquè som els més figa de la selva.

Every other animal is stronger than we are,

Qualsevol altre animal és més fort.

they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed.

Tenen ullals i urpes, són àgils i ràpids.

Que l'Usain Bolt és ràpid? Un esquirol l'apallissaria.

We think Usain Bolt is fast.

Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

No som ràpids.

We're not fast.

That would be an Olympic event:

Podria ser prova olímpica: persecució d'esquirol.

turn a squirrel loose, whoever catches it gets a gold medal.

Si algú l'agafa, guanya l'or.

(Laughter)

Sense armes, velocitat, força ni ullals.

So no weapons, no speed, no strength, no fangs, no claws.

Com els mataven? Misteri número u.

How were we killing these animals? Mystery number one.

Mystery number two:

Misteri número dos:

Women have been in the Olympics for quite some time now,

Fa temps que les dones participen als Jocs,

but one thing that's remarkable about all women sprinters:

però hi ha un tret comú a totes les esprinters:

fan pena, són terribles.

they all suck; they're terrible.

There's not a fast woman on the planet and there never has been.

No hi ha cap dona ràpida al món,

i no n'hi ha hagut mai cap.

The fastest woman to ever run a mile did it in 4:15.

La dona més ràpida va fer els 1500 en 4:15.

I could throw a rock and hit a high-school boy

A qualsevol institut trobes marrecs

who can run faster than 4:15.

que corren per sota de 4:15.

For some reason, you guys are just really slow.

No sé per què, les ties sou molt lentes.

But --

(Rialles)

(Laughter)

But, you get to the marathon we were just talking about --

Tornem a la marató de què parlàvem,

you've only been allowed to run the marathon for 20 years,

només fa 20 anys que podeu fer maratons.

Perquè, abans dels anys 80,

because prior to the 1980s, medical science said

la medicina deia que si una dona corria 42 km...

if a woman tried to run 26 miles -- does anyone know what would happen

Sabeu què podia passar si corríeu 42 km?

if you tried to run 26 miles?

Per què us van prohibir participar-hi abans de 1980?

Why you were banned from the marathon before the 1980s?

Audience Member: Her uterus would be torn.

(Públic: Tindria un esquinçament d'úter)

Christopher McDougall: Her uterus would be torn, yes.

Esquinçament dels òrgans reproductius.

Torn reproductive organs.

L'úter cauria literalment del cos.

The uterus would literally fall out of the body.

(Laughter)

He corregut moltes maratons,

Now, I've been to a lot of marathons,

i encara és hora que ho vegi.

and I've yet to see any ...

(Rialles)

(Laughter)

Així que, només fa 20 anys que en poden córrer.

So it's only been 20 years

that women have been allowed to run the marathon.

En tan poc temps,

In that very short learning curve, you've gone from broken organs

heu passat d'òrgans esquinçats,

up to the fact that you're only 10 minutes off the male world record.

a ser tan sols a 10 minuts

del rècord del món masculí.

Then you go beyond 26 miles, into the distance

Si anem més enllà dels 42 km,

una distància letal segons la medicina,

that medical science also told us would be fatal to humans --

remember Pheidippides died when he ran 26 miles --

Filípides va morir en córrer 42 km,

per exemple 80 o 160 km,

you get to 50 and 100 miles, and suddenly, it's a different game.

llavors és una altra lliga.

You take a runner like Ann Trason or Nikki Kimball or Jenn Shelton,

Si agafem l'Ann Trason, la Nikki Kimball o la Jenn Shelton,

put them in a race of 50 or 100 miles against anybody in the world,

en una cursa de 80 o 160 km contra qualsevol,

és una loteria saber qui guanyarà.

and it's a coin toss who's going to win.

Us en posaré un exemple.

I'll give you an example.

A couple years ago, Emily Baer signed up for a race

Fa anys, l'Emily Baer es va inscriure

a la cursa Hardrock 160.

called the Hardrock 100,

which tells you all you need to know about the race.

El nom ho diu tot de la cursa.

They give you 48 hours to finish this race.

Et donen 48 hores per acabar-la.

Well, Emily Baer -- 500 runners --

L'Emily Baer, de 500 corredors,

she finishes in eighth place, in the top 10,

va acabar la vuitena, al top 10,

even though she stopped at all the aid stations

malgrat aturar-se a tots els avituallaments

per alletar el seu nadó durant la cursa.

to breastfeed her baby during the race.

(Laughter)

En va guanyar 492.

And yet, she beat 492 other people.

Segon misteri: Per què les dones milloren

The last mystery:

Why is it that women get stronger as distances get longer?

quan les distàncies augmenten?

El tercer misteri:

The third mystery is this:

At the University of Utah, they started tracking finishing times

A la Universitat de Utah, van estudiar les marques

dels corredors de marató.

for people running the marathon.

What they found is that if you start running the marathon at age 19,

I van descobrir

que si en comences a córrer als 19,

you'll get progressively faster, year by year,

cada any ets més ràpid,

fins arribar al teu màxim als 27.

until you reach your peak at age 27.

Després, ja no aguantes,

And then after that, you succumb to the rigors of time.

l'edat et passa factura.

I llavors ets cada cop més lent,

And you'll get slower and slower,

until eventually you're back to running the same speed you were at age 19.

fins que tornes a la velocitat dels 19.

Trigues set, vuit anys a fer el cim,

So about seven, eight years to reach your peak,

per ensorrar-te gradualment,

and then gradually you fall off your peak,

fins que tornes al punt d'inici.

until you go back to the starting point.

You'd think it might take eight years to go back to the same speed,

Penseu que calen 8 anys per tornar a l'origen?

Potser 10? No, en són 45.

maybe 10 years -- no, it's 45 years.

64-year-old men and women

Els homes i les dones de 60 anys

are running as fast as they were at age 19.

corren tan ràpid com quan en tenien 19.

Now, I defy you to come up with any other physical activity --

Us repto a trobar altres activitats físiques,

and please don't say golf -- something that's actually hard --

el golf no compta, alguna activitat dura,

(Laughter)

on els veterans ho facin tan bé

where geriatrics are performing as well as they did as teenagers.

com quan eren adolescents.

So you have these three mysteries.

Doncs tenim tres misteris.

Is there one piece in the puzzle which might wrap all these things up?

Hi ha cap peça del trencaclosques

que resolgui tota l'equació?

Cal anar amb molt de compte,

You've got to be careful anytime someone looks back in prehistory

quan algú es basa en la prehistòria per explicar-se,

and tries to give you a global answer because,

com que és la prehistòria,

it being prehistory, you can say whatever the hell you want

qualsevol bajanada pot anar a missa.

and get away with it.

Us vull plantejar això:

But I'll submit this to you:

Amb una peça del trencaclosques,

If you put one piece in the middle of this jigsaw puzzle,

de sobte, tot comença a tenir sentit.

suddenly it all starts to form a coherent picture.

Si us pregunteu per què els tarahumares

If you're wondering why the Tarahumara don't fight

no moren de malalties del cor,

and don't die of heart disease,

per què una pobra etíop, la Derartu Tulu,

why a poor Ethiopian woman named Derartu Tulu

can be the most compassionate and yet the most competitive,

és alhora la més compassiva i la més competitiva,

and why we somehow were able to find food without weapons,

i per què érem capaços

de trobar menjar sense armes,

perhaps it's because humans,

potser és perquè els humans,

as much as we like to think of ourselves as masters of the universe,

tot i que ens sentim els amos de l'univers

actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs.

hem evolucionat igual que

una gossada de gossos de caça.

Maybe we evolved as a hunting pack animal.

Potser hem evolucionat

com una manada d'animals de caça.

Because the one advantage we have in the wilderness --

L'avantatge que tenim a la natura,

no són els ullals, les urpes, ni la velocitat,

again, it's not our fangs, our claws or our speed --

l'únic que fem genial és suar.

the only thing we do really well is sweat.

We're really good at being sweaty and smelly.

Som els millors suant i fent ferum.

Better than any other mammal on Earth, we can sweat really well.

Millor que cap mamífer, suem de conya.

But the advantage of that little bit of social discomfort

Però l'avantatge

d'aquesta incomoditat social és

is the fact that, when it comes to running under hot heat for long distances,

que a l'hora de córrer

llargues distàncies quan fa calor,

som genials, els millors del món.

we're superb -- the best on the planet.

You take a horse on a hot day,

Un cavall en un dia calorós,

and after about five or six miles, that horse has a choice:

després de 8 o 10 km, ha de triar.

O respirar, o refrescar-se,

it's either going to breathe or it's going to cool off.

But it ain't doing both. We can.

però no ho pot fer tot. Nosaltres, sí.

So what if we evolved as hunting pack animals?

I si hem evolucionat com una gossada de caça?

What if the only natural advantage we had in the world

I si l'únic avantatge que teníem

was the fact that we could get together as a group,

era que podíem formar un grup,

sortir plegats a la sabana africana, triar un antílop

go out there on that African savanna, pick out an antelope,

i empaitar-lo plegats fins que morís?

go out as a pack, and run that thing to death?

És tot el que podíem fer,

That's all we could do.

We could run really far on a hot day.

córrer distàncies llargues sota la calor.

Well, if that's true, a couple other things had to be true as well.

Si fos cert, altres coses també ho serien.

The key to being part of a hunting pack is the word "pack."

La clau d'un grup de caça és: "grup".

If you go out by yourself and try to chase an antelope,

Si aneu sols a empaitar un antílop,

ben segur que hi haurà dos cadàvers.

I guarantee there will be two cadavers out in the savanna.

Cal treballar en equip.

You need a pack to pull together.

Calen els més veterans, 64, 65 anys,

You need to have those 64- and 65-year-olds

que tenen molta experiència,

who have been doing this for a long time

per saber quin és l'antílop que empaites.

to understand which antelope you're trying to catch.

El ramat es forma i es desfà constantment.

The herd explodes and it gathers back again.

Those expert trackers have to be part of the pack.

Els rastrejadors experts eren imprescindibles.

No podien ser a 15 km.

They can't be 10 miles behind.

You need the women and the adolescents there,

Les dones i els joves hi eren

because the two times in your life you most benefit from animal protein

perquè qui aprofita més les proteïnes animals,

són les mares recents i els nois en creixement.

is when you're a nursing mother and a developing adolescent.

No és lògic tenir un antílop mort

It makes no sense to have the antelope over there, dead,

i els que tenen gana a 80 km,

and the people who want to eat it 50 miles away.

han de ser al grup.

They need to be part of the pack.

Calen homes forts de 27 anys,

You need those 27-year-old studs at the peak of their powers

per matar la presa,

ready to drop the kill,

i els adolescents hi han de ser

and you need those teenagers who are learning the whole thing involved.

per aprendre com es fa.

El grup ha d'estar unit.

The pack stays together.

Another thing that has to be true: this pack cannot be materialistic.

Una altra realitat: el grup no pot ser egoista.

You can't be hauling all your crap around, trying to chase the antelope.

No pots emprenyar-te empaitant l'antílop.

El grup no pot estar malavingut.

You can't be a pissed-off pack.

You can't be bearing grudges, like, "I'm not chasing that guy's antelope.

Res de:"Jo no empaito el seu antílop"

"Ja s'espavilarà tot sol amb l'antílop".

He pissed me off. Let him go chase his own antelope."

El grup s'ha d'empassar l'ego,

The pack has got to be able to swallow its ego,

ha de treballar en equip.

be cooperative, and pull together.

El resultat final, si fa no fa,

What you end up with, in other words,

is a culture remarkably similar to the Tarahumara,

és una cultura força semblant

als tarahumares,

a tribe that has remained unchanged since the Stone Age.

una tribu que no ha canviat

des de l'edat de pedra.

It's a really compelling argument

És una tesi colpidora,

that maybe the Tarahumara are doing exactly what all of us had done

potser els tarahumares fan

el que havíem fet més de 2 milions d'anys.

for two million years,

that it's us in modern times who have sort of gone off the path.

Que és ara, que ens hem desviat del camí.

You know, we look at running as this kind of alien, foreign thing,

Veiem el córrer com una cosa estranya,

this punishment you've got to do because you ate pizza the night before.

el càstig per menjar pizza ahir a la nit.

Però potser no.

But maybe it's something different.

Potser hem agafat aquest avantatge innat

Maybe we're the ones who have taken this natural advantage we had

i l'hem fet malbé.

and we spoiled it.

Com? Com es fan les coses malbé?

How do we spoil it? Well, how do we spoil anything?

We try to cash in on it. Right?

Intentant fer-ne diners.

We try to can it and package it and make it "better"

Ho emboliquem, ho fem maco

i ho venem a tot déu.

and then sell it to people.

And then what happened was, we started creating

Llavors vam començar a fer

these fancy cushioned things which can make running "better,"

unes joies amb esmorteïment

per córrer millor, les sabatilles de córrer.

called running shoes.

The reason I get personally pissed-off about running shoes

El que m'emprenya de les sabatilles

is because I bought a million of them and I kept getting hurt.

és que n'he comprat milions i encara em lesiono.

And I think if anybody in here runs --

Crec que, si algú d'aquí corre...

I just had a conversation with Carol.

Abans en parlava amb la Carol,

We talked for two minutes backstage, and she talked about plantar fasciitis.

hem xerrat dos minuts, de la fascitis plantar.

Parleu amb un corredor mig minut,

You talk to a runner, I guarantee within 30 seconds,

the conversation turns to injury.

i ja esteu parlant de lesions.

So if humans evolved as runners, if that's our one natural advantage,

Si som éssers corredors i tenim aquest do,

then why are we so bad at it?

Per què som tan negats? Per què em lesiono?

Why do we keep getting hurt?

A curious thing about running and running injuries

El curiós de córrer i lesionar-se

és que les lesions són de la nostra època.

is that the running injury is new to our time.

If you read folklore and mythology,

Si llegiu mites i folklore,

any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales,

mites i llegendes de tot tipus,

running is always associated with freedom and vitality

córrer sempre s'associa

a la llibertat, a la joventut i al vigor etern.

and youthfulness and eternal vigor.

Només en l'actualitat

It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated

s'associa amb la por i el dolor.

with fear and pain.

Gerónimo deia:

Geronimo used to say, "My only friends are my legs. I only trust my legs."

"Les cames són les úniques amigues en qui confio".

That's because an Apache triathlon used to be you'd run 50 miles

Això és perquè una triatló apatxe

eren 80 km de cursa pel desert,

across the desert,

combat cos a cos, robar cavalls

engage in hand-to-hand combat, steal a bunch of horses,

i cavalcar cap a casa a tota llet.

and slap leather for home.

Gerónimo no deia mai:

Geronimo was never saying, "You know something, my Achilles -- I'm tapering.

"Ai, el taló... He de descansar una setmana",

I've got to take this week off."

"He de fer cross training".

Or, "I need to cross-train. I didn't do yoga. I'm not ready."

"No he fet ioga. No estic a punt".

(Laughter)

Els humans han corregut tota la vida.

Humans ran and ran all the time.

We are here today. We have our digital technology.

Som aquí. Amb la tecnologia digital.

Els nostres coneixements existeixen

All of our science comes from the fact

perquè els nostres avantpassats eren capaços

that our ancestors were able to do something extraordinary every day,

de fer coses extraordinàries cada dia,

confiaven en els peus descalços i les cames

which was just rely on their naked feet and legs

per recórrer llargues distàncies.

to run long distances.

Com podem tornar-hi?

So how do we get back to that again?

Well, I would submit to you the first thing is:

Proposo començar per

desfer-se de l'embolcall i el màrqueting.

get rid of all packaging, all the sales, all the marketing.

Get rid of all the stinking running shoes.

Desfer-se del coi de sabatilles.

Prou de maratons urbanes,

Stop focusing on urban marathons,

si les fas en 4 hores, fas pena.

which, if you do four hours, you suck,

and if you do 3:59:59, you're awesome,

Però en 3:59:59 ets boníssim,

because you qualified for another race.

perquè et classifiques per a la propera.

Hem de recuperar el plaer, la diversió,

We need to get back to that sense of playfulness and joyfulness

i, també la nuesa

and, I would say, nakedness,

que ha convertit els tarahumares

that has made the Tarahumara

en una de les cultures més sanes d'avui dia.

one of the healthiest and serene cultures in our time.

I què en traiem? Què?

So what's the benefit? So what?

Cremar el gelat d'ahir a la nit?

So you burn off the Häagen-Dazs from the night before.

But maybe there's another benefit there as well.

Potser té altres beneficis.

Without getting too extreme about this,

No em vull fer pesat,

imagine a world where everybody could go out the door

imagineu un món

on poguessim sortir

a fer el tipus d'esport

and engage in the kind of exercise

que ens fa estar relaxats i serens,

that's going to make them more relaxed, more serene,

trobar-nos millor,

more healthy,

burn off stress --

cremar l'estrès...

where you don't come back into your office a raging maniac anymore,

Sense anar a la feina com feres,

ni tornar a casa estressats.

or go home with a lot of stress on top of you again.

Potser hi ha un punt mitjà entre com som

Maybe there's something between what we are today

and what the Tarahumara have always been.

i com han estat sempre els tarahumares.

I don't say let's go back to the Copper Canyons

No cal tornar a les Barrancas del Cobre,

and live on corn and maize, which is the Tarahumara's preferred diet,

a viure de blat de moro, el preferit dels tarahumares

però potser hi ha un punt mitjà.

but maybe there's somewhere in between.

I si el trobem,

And if we find that thing,

maybe there is a big fat Nobel Prize out there.

potser algú rebrà el Premi Nobel.

Because if somebody could find a way to restore that natural ability

Si algú troba la manera

de recuperar aquest do innat

that we all enjoyed for most of our existence

del qual n'hem gaudit gairebé sempre,

up until the 1970s or so,

fins més o menys els anys 70,

the benefits -- social and physical and political and mental --

els beneficis socials, físics,

polítics i mentals,

could be astounding.

podrien ser increïbles.

What I've been seeing today is there is a growing subculture

El que hem vist avui és que neix una subcultura

d'atletes descalços, que es desfan de les sabatilles.

of barefoot runners, people who've gotten rid of their shoes.

And what they have found uniformly is,

La majoria ha descobert que

you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress,

un cop fora les sabatilles, fora l'estrés,

you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

fora lesions i patiments.

And what you find is something the Tarahumara have known

I descobreixes una cosa

que els tarahumares fa temps que saben,

for a very long time:

that this can be a whole lot of fun.

que us ho podeu passar de conya.

I've experienced it personally myself.

Jo mateix ho he experimentat.

I was injured all my life; then in my early 40s, I got rid of my shoes

Sempre m'he lesionat i als 40, sabatilles fora.

and my running ailments have gone away, too.

Les lesions també han desaparegut.

Espero que tots en puguem sortir guanyant.

So hopefully it's something we can all benefit from.

I us agraeixo que m'hagueu escoltat. Moltes gràcies.

I appreciate your listening to this story.

Thanks very much.

(Aplaudiments)

(Applause)