Running With Friends Is Better Than Running Alone

For years, Gina Kolata, New York Times science writer and long-time runner, preferred to run alone. Well, not alone exactly. She preferred to run with her iPod. All of that changed when a friend suggested that if she ran with a group, Kolata would run farther, faster, and the miles would fly by. Thus Kolata discovered several benefits of running with friends that she had never imagined.
"You will probably have conversations
during runs that you could never imagine having if you were sitting
face to face with a neighbor or a work colleague," she writes. "And you may become
unexpectedly close to people you would never have met or gotten to know
in your other life. …Along the way, you will discover quiet roads and hidden trails…"
Read more in the Times.