Clydesdale Cross Sport Horse Association
We all know walking is great exercise. What’s less acknowledged is that it was once America’s most popular sport.
The sport was called Pedestrianism. Participants, both men and women, competed solo or in teams, combining speed and endurance in long-distance jaunts that would test the mettle of any of today’s athletes.
Origin of the sport can be traced back to Great Britain where it was already popular in the mid-eighteenth century. It spread to the United States and had its greatest vogue in the1870s before losing out to the “newer” sports of baseball and football, though some of the big names were still competing as late as the 1920s. Coupled with competition for spectators and money with other sports, the sport lost its luster through “gimmickry.”
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