I did some research and the phrase "hoka hey" also has a meaning outside of the battle context that is also poignantly appropriate for running:
According to John Neihardt the phrase translates as ‘hold fast. There is more!’
Indeed there is. So keep running.
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I'm stoked that you got this up! I'm going to add you into my links now.
I can't wait to read more!
Hoka Hey!
Also Joey gave me Why We Run to read. I believe you said you read this...if so, what did you think of it?
I definitely recommend this book. Perhaps later I'll post a full review. Bernd Heinrich is not just a crazy naturalist and prolific popular nature writer, but he just happens to be one of the world's best ultrarunners. Go figure. He puts it all together in this book that analyzes animal biology and physiology in relation to human distance running biomechanics. It is partly a runner's autobiography with a great description of how he broke the US record for the 50k. He details a crazy running regimen from a time when there wasn't a lot of good info on ultrarunning. The scientist that Heinrich is, he pretty much treated himself as a scientific experiment and discovered, what else, we were all born to run. And not just run, but run really, really far. Heinrich's books are generally good, although he in many respects epitomizes the insanity of an extreme scientific worldview when he, for example, shoots rare birds with a shotgun to investigate the contents of their stomachs.
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