Running In Corduroys

Phil Lang
8 min readFeb 2, 2021

Why my mom started running in her fifties, what made her stop, and the joy of watching a parent discover a new part of their life.

Mom was in her fifties when she took her first run. On a winter night in Minnesota she ran to the snow pile at the end of Farrington Circle beneath the yellow streetlight. 500 feet, give or take a few. She walked back home.

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Phil Lang

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