Rick Fisher

Rick Fisher was a wilderness photographer who was intrigued by the Tarahumara and questioned why, since they were such great runners, the Tarahumara weren't shredding the competition at hardcore races. He went about achieving this goal by putting together an all-Tarahumara team for the Leadville race. During his first attempt, he was unsuccessful, and all of the Tarahumara dropped out less than halfway through the race. On his second attempt, however, he brought more experienced Tarahumara and this time, they got three of the top five places in the race.

"Born to Run" has been surprisingly interesting thus far, although I do feel that the author goes off on random tangents quite frequently. Whether or not everything will eventually become truly important to the story remains to be seen, so it is probably best not to pass too much judgment on it at this time. Regardless, this can be quite irritating at times; it seems like, instead of moving the story forwards, the author is moving farther and farther into the past, to the point where it's become kind of confusing and I've begun to forget what the original layer of the story was about.