50 Years of Running: What I’ve Learned

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I realized the other day that I have been running for 50 years. I started running when I was 14. I was playing junior high football and in our first practice, our coach had us do a mile run. I was one of the slower players on the team so I expected to finish mid-pack at best. However, after the half-mile point, I was up in front with the running backs and the wide receivers, and by the end of the mile, I finished first…