Richard Termine
As a runner who lives in a populous city, I’m used to getting stuck behind someone dragging their suitcase along the sidewalk. I’m all-too familiar with having to bob around food carts and weave through people standing in line to order. And I’ve developed cat-like reflexes to dodge rats, both dead and very much alive.
So when all these things happened within the first few minutes of
Endure: Run Woman Show, an immersive theater performance in New York City’s Central Park, I knew it would be an authentic experience.
I didn’t know that I’d be left standing, in the middle of the park, with tears falling down my cheeks at the end of it.
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Drew Reynolds
Jerry Francois is a born-and-raised New Yorker scratch that a born-and-raised Brooklynite. Very little intimidates him.
But in the aftermath of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, when the 25-year-old was shot and killed while out for a run in South Georgia last March, Francois began to fear going out for his nightly runs in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood where he lives.
“It hit me hard,” he tells
Runner’s World. “His life was taken for doing something that I m sure that he just enjoyed to do. It was literally taken away. That was literally his last mile.” Related Stories
Francois worried about being targeted and not making it home to see his first child born. (His wife, Ashley, gave birth to their son, Jaxx, in July.) So he switched his runs to mornings and took to wearing neon in place of his usual black attire.