<story><title>A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)</title><url>https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495618559_311854.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwyerm</author><text>I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced.&lt;p&gt;The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn&amp;#x27;t perform well, although that could also be because of other gear issues and that they were not sure that the aid stations were for them.
The second year, they stopped by the local landfill for old car tires, and made sandals from them. They set records that year. It was a bit of an embarrassment to the title sponsor...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>I saw something similar in the NHK video documentary about Japan&amp;#x27;s Ultra Trail Mount Fuji race (100 mi.). At just after 3:00 in the video[0] you can see two Mexican entrants of the Rarámuri people. However, one of them is wearing Nike shoes and another wears the traditional sandals. The results I thought were a bit embarrassing for Nike, no matter the exact cause (22 minutes; 29 minutes for the sandals result).&lt;p&gt;I was however really intrigued by the maize-based powder supplement drink they seem to enjoy. (Pinore, 15:00 in the video)&lt;p&gt;0. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=4PsKvPTM8po&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=4PsKvPTM8po&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)</title><url>https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495618559_311854.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwyerm</author><text>I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced.&lt;p&gt;The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn&amp;#x27;t perform well, although that could also be because of other gear issues and that they were not sure that the aid stations were for them.
The second year, they stopped by the local landfill for old car tires, and made sandals from them. They set records that year. It was a bit of an embarrassment to the title sponsor...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joachim4</author><text>Many people got the story of that race from the book &amp;quot;Born to run&amp;quot;. Could you tell your story of that race ?</text></comment>