Sunday Firesides: Exercise, Man’s Most Faithful Companion

Picture for a moment a man out running in the cool evening air. He appears to be alone. But he is not.

He once ran cross-country in high school. He runs still as a middle-aged man, though no longer for prizes or for time. Simply for the physicality of it, the visceral enjoyment.

He has run weekly, sometimes daily for most of several decades now.

Running wa…