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Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets - and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Author Richard Deatherage has created a memoir that will likely be a standard toward which all future memoirists will reach. Not only is the audiobook beautifully written as a coming-of-age story, but it also is a reflection on Americana. Deatherage recounts his family struggles while his father served in Vietnam, how he absorbed the Midwestern lifestyle while moving as a military family every four years, eventually settling in California where he discovered his passion for drafting in mechanical drafting class in high school.