Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run? Perfect landing. Daniel E.
Lieberman/Harvard University On the left, a habitually shod Kenyan who is heel-striking; on the right, a Kenyan who has never worn shoes and who is forefoot striking in the way most barefoot runners land. Persistence hunting – humans running antelope to death. A while ago I watched a David Attenborough documentary that showed a bushman man running a Kudu to death.
It was pretty amazing stuff – by persistently chasing the kudu through the heat of the day he was able to exhaust it to the point of collapse. (Watch that part of the documentary on YouTube – 7 minutes) Barefoot-running-b.jpg (JPEG Image, 575x656 pixels) - Scaled (99%)