A film is to be made of the book, written and directed by Peter Sarsgaard, and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.
In 2006, she traveled with Scott Jurek, Christopher McDougall, and several other ultrarunners as the sole female runner to Copper Canyon in the remote southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico to run with the Tarahumara, for McDougall's book Born to Run.
Thornley describes his wish to achieve a vintage rock sound embellished with subtle hooks and "fairy dust, bells and whistles," similar to Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, where repeated listens reveal more and more enjoyment with new layers apparent each time.
home run | earned run average | Run-D.M.C. | Chicken Run | First Battle of Bull Run | Max Born | Run Lola Run | run | Reviews on the Run | Born on the Fourth of July | mile run | Just Born | Jason Williams (basketball, born 1975) | Cannonball Run | Born to Run | Born to Be Wild | Born in East L.A. | Second Battle of Bull Run | salmon run | Run Silent, Run Deep | Run-length encoding | Run–D.M.C. | run (baseball) | Natural Born Killers | Midnight Run | Logan's Run | hit and run | Born This Way | Born on the Fourth of July (film) | Born in the U.S.A. |
The arena has also hosted concerts, perhaps most famously, the opening show of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's The River Tour, in which Springsteen began the show by completely forgetting the words to "Born to Run", but was rescued by the Michigan audience.
Absolutepunk.net raved about the album, saying that it's "Packed full of vivid imagery and storytelling that resembles "Born to Run"/"Darkness on the Edge of Town"-era Springsteen, "The '59 Sound" is an impeccable work of punk-rock art where each listen offers something new, never taking any hint of imagination or personal effect away from the listener; this is the album The Killers wanted to make with "Sam's Town" but were unsuccessful at."
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color – Born to Run: Parts 1 & 2 (1979) ...Susannah
Trason appears in Christopher McDougall's accounts of the Leadville Trail 100 in the 1990s in his 2009 book, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
Micah True, an ultrarunner who appears in Born To Run under his nickname "Caballo Blanco"
In Born to Run, McDougall tracks down members of the reclusive Tarahumara Indian tribe in the Mexican Copper Canyons.
Ride a Wild Pony, also known as Born to Run, is a 1975 Walt Disney Productions film directed by Don Chaffey adapted from the James Aldridge novel A Sporting Proposition.
Born to Run was featured on the soundtrack of video game publisher EA Sports' title, Rugby 06, as well as being the main song for Melbourne based video game developers IR Gurus' title, AFL Premiership 2006, whilst Shake It was used in three Videogames: F1 2011 (Codemasters), WRC 4 (Evolution Studios) and This is Football 2005 (London Studio) .