Micah True

Micah True, born Michael Randall Hickman on November 10, 1953, and also known as Caballo Blanco, was an American ultrarunner from Boulder, Colorado, who became widely known as a central character in Christopher McDougall's book Born to Run. He was a professional middleweight boxer between 1974 and 1982, then took up long-distance running and spent winters running in Mexico and Central America for almost twenty years. In 2003 he decided to organize a race for the Tarahumara people in Mexico to help them preserve their culture and running heritage. Some readers of the book credited him as their inspiration for taking up ultrarunning. He died on March 27, 2012, during a run in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico.