Slap on the sunscreen and hit a trail – we’re genetically engineered to run
One of the reasons humans became the dominant species is because we’re such good runners
01 November 2020 - 19:45
Trail running may well be the first sport. “Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees,” writes best-selling author Christopher McDougall, “we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.”..
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