The Mad History of Trail

Who is the first “trailer”?

Perhaps Philippides, who is presented as the father of the marathon: not only did he not die at the finish, but he undoubtedly ran 200 kilometers more than the regulation 42. Perhaps Malcolm III, King of Scots who organized an endurance race in the Highlands in XI^ecentury. Perhaps a bushman exhausting the antelope on the run, an unknown Tarahumara, a British "pedestrian" swallowing the miles until exhaustion ...