Their Lives Tarahumara Indians enter 100-mile contest to call attention to the plight of their people in rural Mexico. It's a run to survive. There's no electricity in our community.
People are hungry.
People are dying. And they run pretty well. Victoriano Churra, a Tarahumara tribesman, won the 100-mile Leadville, Colo., run in 1993. Herrera won the same race two years ago and did well in another race last year in Utah. Saturday's 11th annual Angeles Crest 100-Mile Endurance Run, beginning in Wrightwood, will test them and 151 other entrants who will traverse trails in the local mountains that peak at altitudes of more than 9,000 feet.