Fdip131: The Big Boom

Published: Jan. 20, 2008, 4:52 p.m.

b'Running was adopted by a society who had been lulled into a false sense of security within the confines of their all too comfortable, technology empowered life of sedentary doom.\\xa0 In America, as in other countries\\u2026technological advances negated our need to rise off the couch and hunt, gather and endure physical labor.\\xa0 But as the population grew unhealthy and overweight, they turned to both the sports and medical experts for an answer\\u2026and that answer was so basic, simple and pure that the appeal to lace up a pair of running shoes could not be denied.\\xa0 The explosion resulting from the first running boom was a revolution which continues today\\u2026a revolution which you and I are very much a part of, as we take back our bodies and our lives and become the runners we all were meant to be.\\xa0 \\nShow Links: \\n \\n \\n \\nFdip Blog of the Week: \\nThe song \\u201cRevolution\\u203f was by Albert Aguilar'