The 2022 Paris EcoTrail (56 km)
Date: March 19, 2022
Ultramarathon # 18
My Time on the 45 km Run: 6:10:35
By Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo
The health impact of asymmetric information and bullshit receptivity
It was a 45 km race from the Park of the Versailles Palace to the Eiffel Tower, but I gladly ended up running 56 km—including the distance from my home to the Versailles. I had the option to drive or take a train to Saint-Cyr station, where participants can board free shuttle buses to the race start, as we were advised to. Many did just that. I ran past Saint-Cyr station where I met a young man who was desperately looking for a shuttle.
- “Don’t worry, a shuttle should be arriving shortly,” I told him. “But you can also run with me to the race start.”
- “How far is it?” he asked.
- “Roughly 2.5 km.”
- “Are you crazy?” he countered. “I’m not going to run 2.5 km for nothing.”
Cars and other motorized vehicles are among the main drivers of not only global warming, but also comorbidities. Sadly, although it’s so easy to understand that by walking or running we burn the fat that we would have kept while driving, many seem unable to realize the connection between cars and comorbidities, especially overweight, obesity and their complications. That’s the result of the combination of asymmetric information and bullshit receptivity.
In sum, running 2.5 km or more, always make sense, because humans are born to walk and run to stay fit and healthy, not to drive or ride to develop comorbidities and make the planet uninhabitable.
As I explain in the book Running Barefoot for Human Survival, Homo sapiens’ body is built for long-distance running and walking, formerly to get food, socialize and feel happy, now to stay healthy, socialize and feel naturally happy. But the extreme propensity to laziness means that many keep seeking happiness rather through the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, medical drugs, illegal drugs, excess of food, etc., and they end up developing overweight and other comorbidities, which compromise their immune systems and increase therefore their vulnerability to infections and pandemics.
My book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).
Ultramarathon # 18
My Time on the 45 km Run: 6:10:35
By Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo
The health impact of asymmetric information and bullshit receptivity
It was a 45 km race from the Park of the Versailles Palace to the Eiffel Tower, but I gladly ended up running 56 km—including the distance from my home to the Versailles. I had the option to drive or take a train to Saint-Cyr station, where participants can board free shuttle buses to the race start, as we were advised to. Many did just that. I ran past Saint-Cyr station where I met a young man who was desperately looking for a shuttle.
- “Don’t worry, a shuttle should be arriving shortly,” I told him. “But you can also run with me to the race start.”
- “How far is it?” he asked.
- “Roughly 2.5 km.”
- “Are you crazy?” he countered. “I’m not going to run 2.5 km for nothing.”
Cars and other motorized vehicles are among the main drivers of not only global warming, but also comorbidities. Sadly, although it’s so easy to understand that by walking or running we burn the fat that we would have kept while driving, many seem unable to realize the connection between cars and comorbidities, especially overweight, obesity and their complications. That’s the result of the combination of asymmetric information and bullshit receptivity.
In sum, running 2.5 km or more, always make sense, because humans are born to walk and run to stay fit and healthy, not to drive or ride to develop comorbidities and make the planet uninhabitable.
As I explain in the book Running Barefoot for Human Survival, Homo sapiens’ body is built for long-distance running and walking, formerly to get food, socialize and feel happy, now to stay healthy, socialize and feel naturally happy. But the extreme propensity to laziness means that many keep seeking happiness rather through the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, medical drugs, illegal drugs, excess of food, etc., and they end up developing overweight and other comorbidities, which compromise their immune systems and increase therefore their vulnerability to infections and pandemics.
My book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).
Dr. Sidy Diallo did the 2022 Paris EcoTrail
Corina Guran, le Dr Sidy Diallo et Annie CHAPOUTHIER ont couru l'EcoTrail Paris 2022
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Dr. Sidy Diallo completed the 2022 Paris EcoTrail
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