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Among the byproducts of jogging are a sense of wellbeing, a pair of tired feet and an intense inflammation of the non-jogger. Though no one seems to know exactly why runners and nonrunners have developed such an intense public loathing for each other, Pollster Lou Harris has a rough idea of how many troops each camp can claim: there are 17.1 million runners and joggers in America, 8 million of whom, reports Harris, are certain that nonrunners consider them "oddballs" and "nuts," and 73 million people who think joggers do indeed tend to be fanatics. Says Harris: "The runners...
...Jack Reardon aims to provide a program that will satisfy the athletic appetites of all types, from the intercollegiate addict to a once-a-week jogger. And as athletic director, Reardon, from Day One, has been grappling with the problem of providing enough room for all athletes to pursue their pleasures...
...nights, when city roller fans join in "Nightskates," a two-hour jaunt through the park. Last week they pirouetted and coasted to music from the New York Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact beginning to roll, and one skate manufacturer has come out with a "jogger" model-a blue running shoe with yellow racing stripes mounted on wheels. After all, skating uses many of the same muscles as running, burns a respectable number of calories...
Though there is no hard evidence, some jogger-doctors believe that running cures mental problems by changing the chemical composition of the body. A.H. Ismail, professor of physical education at Purdue University, reports "significant relationships" between changes in certain hormone levels of joggers and improvements in emotional stability. Some critics think the joggers he studied, a group of out-of-shape professors, could have felt better simply because they were getting away from their desks for a change, but Ismail doubts that theory. Psychiatrist Brown thinks running fights depression by inducing chemical changes in the brain...
...even convinced jogger-doctors are reserving final judgment on the running cure. Psychiatrist Jerome Katz of the Menninger Foundation says jogging makes patients more talkative and helps a bit with depression, but cautions that "the enthusiastic claims of instant cures of depression have to be evaluated with a great deal of salt." In the common-sense view, all exercise is likely to bring a tem porary feeling of well-being and a distraction from personal woes. Clinton Cox, a reporter for the New York Daily News, thinks he knows the real secret of the jogging cure. Says...