Though his motivations were lost to time, he was suspended for a semester after being arrested for running nude through his college town in 1804. Historians say Quakers-Quakers!-revived the practice in the 17th century, protesting the Church of England and often urging onlookers to repent.Īmerica’s first streaker was a Washington & Lee (then called Washington College) student named George William Crump.
During the 15th century, the Adamites protested the Holy Roman Empire’s buttoned-up morality by running naked through their Bohemian village, as Adam and Eve would have intended, if Adam and Eve, like the Adamites, had regarded monogamy as a sin. Running through a public space fully or partially nude has a long history with motivations to match the era. And it’s a reflection of how seriously we take our own rules, and ourselves. It is running’s wacky cousin, its quirky neighbor. Just as an asthmatic pug is the same species as a greyhound, so too is streaking in the same species a Kipchoge marathon. Yes, streaking-the kind people first think of when you talk about run streaks, and the silly counterweight to the emotional heaviness of giving your all.
A streaker warms up the track before the final of the men’s 100m at the 2017 World Championships Antonin Thuillier/AFP/ // Getty Images
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