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Running Fast; Realizing Why

How stoplights made me the runner I am

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Jul 12, 2024
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A photo of a stop light turning green.
First green light to take off from.

New York winter days close up shop at 4:30, and that there are no park runs after dark. To run in the wintertime city, it was either trudge it out on a treadmill, which I would not do, or run in the streets, which is dangerous. So to make it less dangerous, when I was in college Les and I would go together. She and I w…

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