Humans have been running for over 2.6 million years, don't you love running?!
I am not realy a fan of running at all.
Competitive running was birthed out of religious rituals, why don't you like it?
How did it come from religious rituals?
The Norse would ritualistically leap over rocks and run up hills as fast as they could because they believed if they ran fast enough they'd catch the spirits. Pagans did it too.