Tomorrow (August 1) marks the 19th anniversary of the day I started running. Too skinny to play football, I showed up for the first day of Shikellamy cross-country practice. We were supposed to run the infamous "4.7," which quickly turned into the not-so-infamous "2.6" for me, and I even bailed on that after a quarter mile. That's right folks, there was once a time when I couldn't run a quarter mile.
We used to make fun of Coach Bell when he would tell us, "I've been running since before all of you were born." I still run with the team on the rare occasion I'm in Sunbury, and the next time I visit I'll be able to tell the team that...
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