PENNINGTON FIELD, BEDFORD — Sprawled across the pavement of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District’s centralized stadium, some 1,940 runners and walkers soak in the pleasant air of a slightly overcast Spring day in Texas. The sounds of #1 Hit Songs pump across the vacated parking spaces, Katy Perry and Kansas taking turns serenading the rows…

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Runs are in vogue now. Every church, nonprofit, community organization and social club seems to organize one. There’s a 5k somewhere on pretty much any given weekend, and thematic marathons are advertising on every channel. There are Fun Runs and Spartan Races; courses with zombies and routes that douse runners in color. Everybody’s running, it seems,…

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