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I once ran easily in the fast pack: today I am struggling in the slow pack. Other runners talk to one another as before, as we cruise by a deepriver of no comment. Plodding up hills, it's nearly down to a walk: drifting downhill, I let gravity take over, lengthening stride and really speeding up, demurring at advice to stay even and slow down. Today is like an old snapshot rediscovered in black and white; not falling off the pace, running along winding highways to the past; roads where I ran in strung-out half-marathons and sharpened up for athletic meets at the stadium. -30 May,2015.