Joan Pastula:
CLASS OF 1963
Manchester High SchoolClass of 1963
Manchester, CT
Joan's Story
Joan is from Bolton, Connecticut. Joan's schools include Manchester High School. Joan works(ed) at Diagnostics For All, Liquidia Technologies, Diagnostics For All.
Music Joan likes includes Eddie Vedder, Weezer, Eminem. Books Joan likes include In Defense of Food, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Born to Run. Movies Joan likes include Malcolm X, Batman Begins, 8 Mile. TV shows Joan likes include Chopped, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks.
One of Joan's favorite quotes is:"“That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And whe...Expand for more
n our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle--behold, the Running Man.
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everyhing else we love--everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires' it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen".
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