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I've found it unusual that many proponents of fitness in an evolutionary
perspective seem to have a bias against long aerobic efforts and a bias for
shorter, high intensity exercises.  It seems clear (at least to me) that
the type of effort you describe below was common-place, either for hunting
or getting from place to place.  Many native people of the Americas have
rich 'long-distance' running traditions:  the Apache, the Tarahumara, and
the Chemehuevi, to name a few.  At least on a personal level, I feel safe
in extrapolating that tradition backwards in time and thinking that if
modern hunter/gatherers found it necessary, so did paleolithic H/G's.  I
try to emulate those longer efforts in my personal fitness plan a few times
a month.


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>Interesting clip on TV tonight.  A bushman running down an antelope,
>according to the script it took him eight hours of jogging. At the end
>the antelope was too tired to run further, and just lay down waiting
>for the spear.
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