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What is running for? Why do we find ourselves every weekend jogging in single file around parks, all in leggings and fluorescent sneakers? How can we find pleasure in coughing up our lungs? What does this widespread craze for running mean? Has post-industrial capitalism transformed us into hamsters high on dopamine and energy gel? Ready to shoot our menisci to compensate for the interstellar void of our sedentary existences as good little soldiers in the tertiary sector? Where does this masochistic obsession with performance, cardio training and 200 euro shoes come from? Delphine Saltel consults various specialists to rethink her own running addiction and shed light on our collective practice. In the light of paleoanthropology, sociology and philosophy, some ideas emerge for reconnecting with our hunter-gatherer instincts, escaping the big bad Nike and running off the beaten track. With: Guillaume Millet: professor of exercise physiology at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, author of Ultra-trail: pleasure, performance and health, Outdoor-éditions, 2012, Défatiguez-vous., Marabout, 2024. Olivier Bessy: professor in the geography and planning department at the University of Pau, author of Courir de 1968 à nos jours, Cairn, 2022 and Le Grand raid de la Réunion: une folle Diagonale, Orphie, 2023. Guillaume Le Blanc: philosopher, writer and professor of political and social philosophy at Paris-Diderot University, author of Courir, Flammarion, 2012. Vicky: founder of the feminist running club Run VNR. Excerpt from the show “Madame Foresti” by Florence Foresti Resources: Born to run by Christopher McDougall, published in 2009, trans. Editions Guérin, 2012 Free to run by Pierre Morath, produced by ARTE France, YUZU Productions, 2015 Jean-Claude's marathon and other long-distance events, Cyrille Martinez, Verticales, 2022 Running, from Marathon to Athens, with wings on your feet, Andrea Marcolongo, Gallimard, 2024 Videos by Francis Chaouloff, research director at INSERM Thanks to Pierre Manil, Cyrille Martinez, Andrea Marcolongo, Marie Morand, Guillaume Lalu, the GANG athletic group of Noisy-le-Grand.