Endurance actions, like distance working, have existed since historic instances. However people’ relationship to these pursuits has modified, in response to time and place. Within the West, we’ve presently turned endurance sports activities right into a science — monitoring each metric and chasing private data by means of refined know-how and customized coaching plans. However as my visitor, who’s spent years finding out the working cultures in several societies, is aware of properly, this contemporary, individualized, data-driven method isn’t the one method to pursue the artwork of endurance.
Michael Crawley is a aggressive runner, social anthropologist, and the writer of To the Restrict. On the present at this time, we first look at how Western athletes have “workified” working by means of know-how and social media. We then take a look at how different cultures method working in another way, together with why East African runners emphasize group coaching over particular person targets and the way the Rarámuri individuals of Mexico incorporate non secular dimensions into their working. We finish our dialog with how we’d rediscover extra significant, holistic methods to method our personal bodily pastimes.
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