Born to Run

According to a story in the New York Times today, "the human body is meant for distance." Some of the evidence for why humans evolved for long distances is a little off (or at least contradicts other science of what we were evolved for). I'm talking about the article's suggestion that we evolved to run long distances so that we could eat meat. There's tons of science that shows that we, indeed, did not evolve to eat meat. But besides that, the piece was interesting and at the very least encouraging to us distance runners. Maybe it's not a total violation of nature to run 26.2 miles at once (or more).