The Running Man Part 1
I’m reading Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run. What a book! A hidden tribe, super-athletes and the greatest race the world has never seen. Cool stuff, but it was ‘only’ entertaining until the Chapter on barefoot running and the story of Nike. Here are some highlights : 1. Running shoes were invented around the same time as the first Space Shuttle Launch 2. Nike co-founder (and non-runner) Bill Bowerman created the market in book called Jogging in which he claimed that throwing the foot out in front of the body and…read more