Social Forces That Disrupted Running

Society follows trends that can have major impacts on our lives

Norman Marcotte
Runner's Life
Published in
6 min readNov 27, 2023

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Photo by Michael Carruth on Unsplash

Humans have been running ever since we were chased by saber tooth tigers, and we chased bison for food. Running as a sport only developed relatively recently with earlier running competitions being part of the ancient Olympics. Running competitively received a boost at the end of the 19th century…

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Norman Marcotte
Runner's Life

Writer, runner, mentor, dreamer. Author of "Take 10 and Reach the Boston Marathon" and the children's book "Frankenstein's Science Project".