When running was for weirdos 

The weirdest thing about running now is that running around in circles looks more normal than running to get somewhere.

When those guys broke out of prison they must have been hard as hell to catch.

So true! I began my jogging routine when I was still in high school in the mid-1970s. I typically ran on the side of the road and it was fairly common for concerned drivers to pull over and ask if I needed a ride!

People who are ahead of their time are always considered weird at first...

Actually, Forest Gump made running popular.

When will sleeping in your car stop being suspicious? I get harassed by cops a lot for it.

I think the lesson I took away from this is how even the most innocuous activity will get you suspicion and mistrust if it deviates from what people are used to. It would have been nice to get some global cultural views on jogging as opposed to pure US centric. I know for example in Japan Ambassador Caroline Kennedy jogs regularly and this got a lot of attention because it isn't as common a thing for people to do there, especially high profile political figures, as it is in the US.

That's odd considering humans evolved to be long distance runners.

How do you smoke 3-4 packs of cigs a day?? If you were awake, lets says 15 hours, thats like having a cig every 10 min!!

And there was a prophet. And the name of him was Forrest... Forrest Gump (read with southern accent)

I love this video! "why don't you jog?" "um... it's literally torture..."

I started running in January of 1969 while in Vietnam. I was 21 years old then. Now it's 2017, I'm 70 years old and I'm still running. I'm not as fast as when I was younger but I'm still out there kicking up the dirt. I love running because it affects me physically, mentally and spiritually. I know that someday I may not be able to run. I just hope it's a long time from now.

run for fun?!?

My dad started jogging in the late 60's, still does to this day. even in sweden people turned their heads

Running is the most amazing hobby that I've ever tried and would be depressed if I didn't

In junior high school, I picked up jogging around the Central Park Reservoir(1 1/2 mile around) to lose weight almost every day. I was one of six joggers that jog regularly. Thanks to an older guy who taught me to breath properly and the importance of cool down, I jog for several years. This was in 1960. I Iost weight and increased my endurance, but was often made fun of.

I was running in the late 1950s, and I ran thousands of miles around around the streets of my hometown in the UK, and I NEVER saw another jogger! Indeed, the word "jogger" wasn't used to describe recreational running until the 1970s.

humans were built to run

If running became popular in the 70's, I'd guess the Rocky movies had some influence on that trend.

This give some perspective to that episode of Mad Men

Anchorman joke makes so much more sense

I think of some of my best poetry while running and do a lot of my praying while running. It also keeps my butt perky and my legs looking great.

You missed an important part of running history. Women were not allowed to run. Much less participate in marathons. In 1967 Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to participate in a marathon and was face with physical attacks by officials and many others cursing her. Thankfully her husband was able to block them thus allowing her to finish the race

It's still for weirdos, but now is like the norm.

Spain, 1988, sad little town, I remember people yelling at me and my group "1, 2, 1, 2" while we we're running, or even "hey, you forgot your pants".

And my personal favorite: "Jogging is the worst! I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?" - Anne Perkins.

I LOVE SO MUCH YOUR VIDEOS. YOU MAKE EVERYTHING INTERESTING AND FUN TO WATCH.

this explains so much. i read the book aerobics as a kid, and did not understand why it was so eager to explain everything. Clearly, I read it late.

1:25 that watch tan tho

When did Cross Country and Track running get started, particularly in high schools?

Such creatively done n some really good narration there

The video style is so good I had to rewind the video because I kept getting distracted by the visuals and the aesthetic.

Or you have asthma and can bike for hours but can't run for a minute.

This is what's happening with meditation too!

this was hilarious to many the way that the cutouts moved and the way they were narrated

Love the clever animation on this. 👏👏👏😎

Being weird makes you unique and stand out... being the norm in society and you will be ignored of existence on this planet....

Couch potato is good. Don't worry about running, just lay down and don't worry about anything. It'll be ok.

To paraphrase: "Credit for the invention of jogging goes to Iowan coach Bill Bowerman, who had the idea after travelling to New Zealand, and seeing people doing it there." Great history.

Thumb-upped for the video style!

It's still the same in my home country. There people will stare at you for jogging. Especially given that most people you pass by are already working their asses off doing hard menial labor even if you get up at like 5AM. It's starting to change a bit now that the country is more developed and the middle class is growing, but jogging (or cycling) on the roads is still looked at with a bit of disdain. They're associated with rich people who have nothing else to do.

Joan Rivers once said, "The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."

Worth also researching "Fell Running" in the UK.

You know, it'd be great if your cards at the end had annotations so I could watch your video on soul patches.

So thats why most of the track team is composed of weirdos.

Meanwhile in Kenya...

Creative vid, thanks Vox!

Nice visual concept for the video

I busted out the running man while watching this video.

I could have ate those runners

Haven't seen the documentary, but: it still is

Wow, Vox's graphics have come on a long way

Running is STILL for weirdos.

Jogging or yogging might be a soft j

Epic editing

the ad before the video was a commercial for running shoes

I HATE running! After years of forced running in the military, they ruined it for me

i thought it was forrest gump who created the jogging trend

Haha lol we had our school marathon thingo today!

Interesting mention of "Aerobic's" by Dr. Ken Cooper. In the mid 60's Cooper was an internal medicine doctor in the USAF stationed @ Lackland AFB, home of the then largest AF hospital, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, aka 'Big Willy'. At the time the Air Forces fitness standard was based on how muscular the airman/officer was, ie how many push-ups, chin-ups, sit-ups etc they could do. Cooper had an idea than aerobic endurance was a better indicator of fitness than shear muscles. Using a large number of Air Force basic trainee's @ Lackland, he came up with a new standard of fitness-basicly, could the individual run a mile and a half in less than 15 minutes. He convinced the powers that be that this was relevant, published "Aerobic's" and then left the USAF and moved up IH 35 to Dallas and opened The Cooper Clinic doing high-end fitness physicals and training for those with money to burn. He left the treadmill he had done most of the study behind @ Big Willy. Years later, I worked in the ETT- Exercise Tolerance Training aka treadmill room. The old enormous treadmill was showing it's age. I occasionally referred to it as the 'steam-roller' because of it's enormous size of the rollers moving the belt. As years passed, Cooper's tester was wearing out and my bosses wanted a newer, more modern unit with all the bells & whistles. I researched 'the steamroller' and tried to convince them that it had some historical value. They didn't care. All used excess equipment was sent to nearby then Kelly AFB to be auctioned off. Someone probably bought this historical gem for 25 or 30 dollars.

sprinting is fun but jogging is boring af

Still is.

great vid thanks for sharing :-)

Vox needs to do an article on Jack LaLanne.

Running is a pain but I love running!

I love running my imagination.

Great video

have you got anything on rollerblading? as a quote would go "he was suspiciously rollerblading"

BS, the article you highlighted says he QUIT the 3 to 4 packs a day when he started running. Why you make it sound like he smoked 3 -4 packs while being the only jogger out there?

Real title: "When murica thinks being healthy is weird."

It never occurred to me that jogging or running for fun would once have been considered a strange or suspicious activity until I saw Back to the Future: Part III.

I remember jogging back in the day when I was in my country, people would think I was getting chased or that I just got mugged

Lol an 11 minute mile? The slowest I ran a mile was 7 minutes. I would be a track star back then

I run 10km three times a week. It's a hell of a sport.

Amazing!

holy cow, my old man's got a copy of that art of running book lying around. guess I'll pick it up and do some jogging myself!

This video is a little deceiving because of the fact that running is literally the most natural movement human beings can perform, and is primarily the reason for humans evolving the way they have. I would do a little more research before chalking up the enterprise to American culture. Doesn't seem to do the title of the video justice. And while its true the practice was averse in populist sentiments for long periods of time, pinning the concept of the jogger or runner down in this way woefully underappreciates the complexity of the practice throughout millennia.

Exercise/running is STILL for weirdos, have you seen the average american? Most hardly even WALK

Who said that people that run aren’t weirdos because last time I checked we all just silently judge them

You guys should listen to Dollop Podcast, the Boston Marathon episode discuss this, even the unofficial & official first female runner and the woman was accepted welcomed by other Runners(please understand this is the year of woman was only a homemaker) , except this one Irish runner who physically assault her and they finally became best of friends and an honorary award was a med after him for people who changes and challenge the world of marathon. really amazing story

This is great. I'm glad my wolfpack is a bunch of weirdos. ;)

running: great for your heart. terrible for your skeleton.

Great video! Does anyone know the story of the first marathon - why it is 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 km)? I remember the story of Philippides running from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of of the battle at Marathon but I've always wondered if this is apocryphal or not.

The fastest you’ll ever see me go is probably a speed walk 😆

It's still for weirdos. It's just that weirdos are mainstream now.

Do americans call nike 'nikey'

Are you telling me that Ron Burgundy's joke about no knowing about jogging is actually completely historically accurate?

James Fuller "Jim" Fixx (April 23, 1932 - July 20, 1984) was an American who authored the 1977 best-selling book "The Complete Book of Running". He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. Enjoy your run!

Running is the most innate thing a human can do. To not run is to deny what the machine was built for. Everyone can run long distance you just have to practice a bit. Get outside and start persistence hunting. It'll make you a better person. It's who you are.

The history is repeating with parkour. The times I was harassed by police and security guards and just random people for climbing on walls and public architecture... In 50 years someone will make an eerily similar video on parkour. I'm sure of it.

This is true. There's a video of a Passaic, 1978 Frank Zappa concert in which you can hear him mention jogging like it's another fad that will go away.

This reminds me of that studio c video the truth about running

Its still weird. Runners freak me out.

Moar metric system jokes

why is vox so cute, with its little magazine cutouts. aww!

no wonder everybody was flipping out at Forrest Gump when he was running back in the day

the reason the metric system is still alive in america is because practically every other nation uses it.

I never knew this. But this is how people see vegans, vegetarians, and environmentalists today. They're just "weird." even though we have the right idea.

Hi Vox, Will you guys be uploading a video soon about the impeachment proceedings and suspension of Dilma Rousseff?

wow... i have that exact same remote control