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Jogging in Avalon

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It’s just a little further One morning, after a twenty-four hour shift, I strapped sneakers on and set out for the year’s first half-marathon. I’d plotted a course that started right near the back of Fire Station number Two in Palmetto, FL and wound through Emerson Point along the Gulf of Mexico. The first mile was a shaded concrete footpath. A ditch, barely alive with the trickle of non-recent rainfall was on my left. Chain link fence edged the wooded track on my right. Brief swaths of land would occasionally interrupt the running chain link, those were strategically marked with outdoor exercise equipment. A wooden lean-to, designated for sit-ups, a push-up bar, a pull-up station. The apparatus served as a nice warm-up; one final procrastination for the coming three-hour crawl. As the obstacles came to an end over one last culvert, I pushed on between two white poles preventing vehicles mistaking the concrete trail for a left hand turn. A definite possibility,