Good Morning
how many people in this room go out to
run daily often by with
often very well how many have
started running recently and
how many do not have the habit of going out to
run
Well surely all of them in some
you have looked at each other
wondering skeptically why not
it does or why he does
but we will all agree that
running has multiple benefits like
lately they are responsible for reminding us
number of websites and magazines blogs
it is indeed true to run
brings benefits to our health both
physical as mental brings benefits to
our personal development learning
improve our physical appearance
we overcome challenges and it also brings us
benefits to our leisure not
entertainment we meet people
all this sounds true is running that
that right now is so fashionable among
the other sports options that
nowadays you can really practice
how can power be the pam
the indoor cycle and what are the fashions but
options options among which
currently we can choose to incorporate
in our society arbitrarily
or not
well then let me focus on
run not only because it’s my sport
but because I think it is especially
fashionable and especially a lot of people
it is practiced by children running the
adults to leave work run the
seniors in their free time
run the athletes and by my training
in evolutionary biology
I can not help but wonder about the
origin of running will have an origin
culturally fostered by the environment or
have a more genetic evolutionary origin
let’s see a cultural trait can be
for example a language all people
from the same country
they speak the same language because they have
learned from others because in the place in
which is found are influenced and
they learn that language they do not have
innate way
if this was the case of running
we would need to learn it from other
people and we would not have it inside
we would be something that society we
inculcate well by health for leisure or for
other reasons but we know that this is not
is the case
in the case of an evolutionary trait is
the one that is innate as
it can be for example the speech
it is known that we are born with the structures
adequate to be able to speak as well as
brain structures a language is
learn but to speak the whole world
is born ready and in fact this is the
case of running and that’s what
Unlike the rest of the options of the
I mentioned earlier strides were
by running the arms movement
We do not need anyone learn what
we have naturally does not result
this curious
well, the evolutionary features are
those that a species acquires
thanks to natural selection because
at some point they have served
advantage
the truth has been necessary that this
It’s funny because a moment ago I
I was saying that running is a
option currently true among many
others
and yet there was a time when
running was necessary for our
survival a point in history
evolution of primates in that some
of them were born with characteristics
that allowed them to run
this gave them an advantage allowed that
they survived more than they reproduced
more and all these traits expanded
were sold in all kind of
the primates’ feet are the
species that had at that time
because it allowed them to survive and be
above the rest
Well, luckily for us
these questions already have done it before
many biologists and in fact you already know
many of the traits that currently
we have we are precisely
those traits that allow us to run
they are traits that are in us because
they allowed us to run at some point
and they have arrived until our days
there are anatomical features in our
body that are there
among other things or just so that
let’s run we’re ruled and injured
it allowed us to see our
enemies to our prisoners and to be able to cast
to run the achilles tendon in the
human beings is much longer for
favor a much more propulsion
effective when running the gluteus maximus is
much more developed in beings
human and in fact only activated
when we run not when we walk or
even a tendon that one our never
with the trunk is only present in
the mammals that run not in the rest
is that there are also adaptations
physiological on the run
the hormones in which they make us feel
it also weighs the suffering that many
Sometimes we experience when running
famous endorphins and the like or the
Sweating
it turns out that human beings have the
most efficient sweating of all the
animal kingdom and that makes us the
best fondistas of all because
there are even psychological traits that we
allow to be such good runners the
motivation memory once we
allowed to pursue prey and even
for days and even that
disappear from our sight and that’s not
it happens in the animal kingdom
all these traits allowed us to hunt
to survive and flee to save
our life has long ago allowed us
get here today some features that
they include body and mind completely
combined perfectly coordinated
greased to make us what we
we were perfect runners for
our survival but now there is
now our way of life has changed
radically in a very short time we
we have become sedentary beings
that they do not need their body to
survive
we have become beings
independents totally disconnected
of ourselves and the rest no longer
we need some toned muscles
to be able to stay alive and
our mind is saturated by the
means is controlled by networks and
is totally foreign to what we have in
our interior and suddenly in this
life so unsatisfactory in which
something we lack in which time passes
so hurry us present the ranking
as salvation as that which we
they bring from outside that does not belong to us and
who bring it to our lives as something
consumable something that will facilitate
our life like that imposes a robot of
cook at home to have more
comfort and tell us things like run
to feel happier reduce your
cholesterol and blood pressure
or salt to run after work
reduce stress
yes he talked like that buy buy everything
this buy this product and you’ll see what
well you’re going to feel but it really makes
very little as we have already said that
We carry this artificial life form
facing the thousands and thousands of years in
what to run was basically our
survival mode and I want that
today we all leave here knowing
really what happens in our body
when running that happens good for a
part we recover our physical state
and normal mental
the one for which we are programmed
thanks to our genetic makeup
and that we are denying ourselves
same
with this way of life that we have created
so recently a few muscles
toned a clear mind are not
Gadgets are not products
consumables is part of us is is
what is in us what we
define and what allows us to run by
another side when running we also collect
body and mind
we are again aware of our
muscles of our lungs
our breathing of our heart
of what we see around us and
all that information
our brain processes it and combines it
next to the feelings that also
we generate to the race and all that what
process and these are the only
instruments that we really need
to run and is that by running this
system that is generated combining body
and mind of this system
emergen some characteristics emerge
emerge some skills emerge a facet
our that is in all of us that
is that of
fedor the broker because yes
effectively all people all
we are runners and when we run
we recover and we meet again
and we feel inside of us
all these characters so ancestral and
so natural and to highlight this and
to inspire us to bring to the present
all this experience so natural and so
ancestral
I would like to be able to read you a
fragment of a text written by a
evolutionary biologist who is also
ultramarathon runner and I’m going to
read ok says if we can get married now
one another instead of mammoths
and mastodons we can be hunters of the
asphalt that will have races for
run forever we no longer dream of
kill great beasts to be the
heroes who provide food to their
congeners
Now we can dream and get the same
psychological sustenance that then
we needed to get the
nutritional sustenance with winning races
or set records or achieve others
long-term goals in games
olympics
we witness the biggest of the hunts
if we can not participate then as
spectators
we encourage those who represent us
they are ours because from the
beginning of time
we are interdependent beings without
But there is a big difference
while when chasing a prey
you always reach a final point at
chase each other
there is no such end then where could
finish what are the limits well with
all this really I promise that has not
tried to sell running
what I try is to encourage you to invite you
to recover a full life then
we are currently halfway living
I encourage you to reconnect with you
and atreveros themselves absolutely to
look inside you dare to
rediscover that I know many times
the feeling that is scary to start
run
I invite you that from now is
aware that we can all run or
lead an active way of life already
through him we can also try to
break with that way of life taxes
with that artificial life that they impose on us
from outside and that is not real that is not
ours and if you want to see it like that
I also invite you in this way
try to achieve that that some
they also call happiness not so
collect you reconnect us all now
run
thank you very much
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