Weekend Warmup: The Last Darkness
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There are three kinds of runners. The Urban Runner is the affectionate name I use to describe those city dwellers armed with all the gadgets, gizmos and latest fitness clothing, whose stride that suggests that five kilometres might be the extent of their excursion. There are Runners, categorized by the svelte silhouette as they glide along in a tatty pair of running shoes that could tell a thousand glorious stories. And there are the Once Weres, who eagerly recount their glory days to anyone who so much as smutters the word run. The Last Darkness shows Runners Jeff Browning and Jesse Haynes feeling every breath of their run across the Owyhee Canyonlands. Their lean legs climb in perfect economical gait, one after the other with rhythmic precision. A reminder of sessions I once ran, relishing every blank thought that ripples…
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