Some of these guys were walking five or six hundred miles in six days, and that's, you know, nothing nothing to sneeze at. They, you know, they must have been doing something right.

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It's got that sounds like a great deal. And there's more than just shirts on that page. Exoskin has all kinds of gear for you. They have toe socks, regular socks, base liners. They've got a lot of stuff on that page that we need to keep ourselves moving.

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All right. Are we ready? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Don. You know, I mean, I didn't know what it was going to be like. You sound like a nice guy on this podcast. But, uh, but I know it's on the upper edge. And you guys have won a couple of awards. And I've never prepped for a podcast ever.

Oh, that's what you're doing. What are you balancing your checkbook over the range of what's going on? Yeah. Yeah. Um, you're recording this. Aren't you free, man? Yeah. Everything. All right. Are we ready? Yeah. Welcome to another edition of trail renonation. My name is Don Freeman. And I'm Scott war. And we're here to talk about something that we've kind of dug up. Um, strange is it sounds during the, the late 1800s, 18, 70, 18, 80s. America's most popular sport. You want to guess what it is?

Don America's most popular say spectators bowling bowling was, uh, I don't know if bowling was invented back then probably was, but you're probably thinking, well, America's past time baseball football, maybe even horse racing back then, but it wasn't. It was a sport called competitive walking or pedestrianism, they would sell out arenas, uh, competitors would walk around these dirt tracks for hours and days at a time. Sometimes six straight days.

They would never walk on Sundays, but they would walk around these tracks and, and just do crazy distances. Sometimes they'd walk backwards and, and, uh, people would show up to watch these events. And I learned about it from a podcast. I was listening and, uh, to, and they said that pedestrianism was one of the first sports that allowed coaching because coaching was kind of taboo back in the day. And it just kind of got my, my, my wheel spinning and I came across a book.

A book, um, called pedestrianism when watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport. And it was by an author, Matthew Algeo, and we got in touch with him. And he amazingly, he said, yeah, I'll come on and talk about pedestrianism. I wrote a book about it. I can talk for a few minutes about it. And so Matthew joins us from Sarajevo across the pond and we're glad that he's with us. Matthew, how did you, how did you learn about pedestrianism?

Why did you decide to write a book about?

Well, I, I, um, I actually discovered pedestrianism when I was researching my first book. And my first book was about the 1943 merger of the Steelers and the Eagles.

Because during World War II, the NFL was so short of players, they had to merge the Steelers and the Eagles. And so in 1943, they became the Steagles.

And it was, you know, sort of a book about life on the home front during World War II and how different professional football was in the, you know, at that time.

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