Book Review: Natural Born Heroes

It's a WWII mystery thriller about an against-all-odds clandestine operation.  It's an ultra-endurance intro.  It's all about low heart rate training.  Low-carb too.  Wild animals and parkour.  Shadowy sheep thieves, blood feuds, and on-the-fly nutrition in the original Land of The Gods and Heroes.  It's about being chased by 80,000 hell-bent Nazi troops when all you've got is a ragged pair of boots and and borrowed donkey.  And it's all over the place, ping-ponging between ancient Crete and modern desert hermit fitness gurus.  I don't know how it all holds together, but it does.

It's called Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall, the author of Born to Run.  If you've read that, and I highly recommend it, this one leaves it in the dust.  It's just one ripping adventure after another, and it points the way for your next adventure: reclaiming the fun in fitness.

As always, consult with your local cat-equiped book store for a copy.

And no, it's not a book about biking exactly, but in the overall scheme it fits so this gets the 'bike' tag, among several others.