Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Runner's "Hi"


One of the reasons I am so happy to be back in L.A. after our travels in the last month to Paris and New York, is that my fellow runners are really quite a bit friendlier here. Whenever I pass another runner there is a sometimes subtle acknowledgment that we are both out there training. I call it the "Runner's Hi". Sometimes it is just a smile, sometimes a wave, sometimes a "good morning." But it is a nice little ritual we California runners have. When I ran in Paris about a month ago and New York City a week later, none of the runners I passed wanted to acknowledge our fleeting kinship.

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