"Did you know that in the late 1800 s athletes walked up to 100 miles per day for 6 days? "
Famous sporting personalities have been around for a long time. However, few will be aware that during the 1870 s and 1880 s, professional pedestrians or peds as they were fondly referred to, competed against each other in gruelling races for up to six days - and nights - on indoor sawdust tracks, getting just a few hours rest per day in makeshift huts beside the track, literally eating on the trot and undergoing tremendous hardships, all in the name of sport
This book provides a fascinating...
"Did you know that in the late 1800 s athletes walked up to 100 miles per day for 6 days? "
Famous sporting personalities have been around for a...
"Not Grant nor Sherman, nor any of our country's heroes, were ever made the subject of more ardent curiosity on the part of our citizens than the hero of a thousand-mile walk. The excitement at times reached almost to the point of frenzy and in their eagerness to gain a standing point right in front of the window at which the beaming countenance of the great man was seen, the crowd came in sharp collision with the police." - Chicago Tribune - November, 1867 "He moved through a greater mass of people than was on the streets when William H. Taft, as President of the United States was here, or...
"Not Grant nor Sherman, nor any of our country's heroes, were ever made the subject of more ardent curiosity on the part of our citizens than the hero...
