In Eat and Run, Scott Jurek opens up about his life and career-as an elite athlete and a vegan-and inspires runners at every level. His accomplishments are nothing short of extraordinary, but that he has achieved all of this on a plant-based diet makes his story all the more so. And he was one of the elite runners who traveled to Mexico to run with the Tarahumara Indians, as profiled in the bestseller Born to Run. Recently he set an American record of 165.7 miles in 24 hours-6 1/2 marathons in one day. Twice he won the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile "jaunt" through Death Valley. He won that race seven years in a row, setting a course record along the way. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile traverse over the old Gold Rush trails of the California Sierra Nevada. For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force-and darling-in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning.
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