The truly ambitious ones would run for an entire mile. In 1968, the Chicago Tribune profiled the brave breed of 'joggers' starting to appear in America.

By then, jogging was a little more familiar. This couple jogged along the Charles River in 1971. The earliest joggers attracted attention from the police But it took surprisingly long for jogging to break into the mainstream.

Today joggers are everywhere, and we take them for granted (of course, we usually call them 'runners'). The New York Times r an an amused trend piece in 1968 on the handful of unusual freaks who chose to run in their free time. Normal people mostly didn't do it - and when they did, it was cause for concern. His suspicious activity? Jogging.īack in the 1960s, jogging was something only athletes and boxers really did.

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