There is a new craze. It is called pedestrianism. No, I didn’t spell Presbyterianism wrong. It basically means getting around on foot – that is by running or walking and I guess zimmer frames count.
Actually pedestrianism was all the rave in the 19th and early twentieth century when people would travel for hundreds of miles on foot. It seems that both marathon running and race walking trace their origins to groups of dazed people staggering around the byways and highways of Europe and American These days it centres around a new urbanism which eschews motorized transport in favour of legging it.
Apparently there is a course at a University of Iowa in the subject of Aggressive Pedestrianism. All sorts of papers are offered at Bachelors and Masters levels. You can get a BA Ag Ped or an MA Ag Ped. You can even do a doctorate.
Some of the papers offered are:
999:001 Foundations of Jaywalking
999:010 Accelerated Rhetoric/Accelerated Walking
999:080 Traffic Signs and Semiotics
999:620 Street-Walking, Street-Crossing, Cross-Dressing
My running club is leading the pack in Nu Zulun in this area, though they don't called in Pedestrianism - they don't want to be thought too religious! They call it by the quaint old term WALKING.
Which reminds me a key event they hold annually is coming up soon:
King and Queen of the mountain
Rumour has it that a man in a frock carrying a handbag competed with distinction last year!
Actually pedestrianism was all the rave in the 19th and early twentieth century when people would travel for hundreds of miles on foot. It seems that both marathon running and race walking trace their origins to groups of dazed people staggering around the byways and highways of Europe and American These days it centres around a new urbanism which eschews motorized transport in favour of legging it.
Apparently there is a course at a University of Iowa in the subject of Aggressive Pedestrianism. All sorts of papers are offered at Bachelors and Masters levels. You can get a BA Ag Ped or an MA Ag Ped. You can even do a doctorate.
Some of the papers offered are:
999:001 Foundations of Jaywalking
999:010 Accelerated Rhetoric/Accelerated Walking
999:080 Traffic Signs and Semiotics
999:620 Street-Walking, Street-Crossing, Cross-Dressing
My running club is leading the pack in Nu Zulun in this area, though they don't called in Pedestrianism - they don't want to be thought too religious! They call it by the quaint old term WALKING.
Which reminds me a key event they hold annually is coming up soon:
King and Queen of the mountain
Rumour has it that a man in a frock carrying a handbag competed with distinction last year!
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