I grew up in a subdivision near some timber we used to run around in — my kid brother actually set fire to it one time, but the volunteers got it put out before much damage was done.
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There really weren’t any trails, just tall grass to wander through. A train track went through the bottom of a gully. Kids on the other side of it lived in another subdivision that might as well have been in another state. Strangers to the kids on our side of the gully.
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I’m pretty sure my first five-miler happened at summer Boy Scout camp at a place called Camp Wokanda.
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So how about it, gang, how’d y’all get started at this dirt-walking thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I grew up in a subdivision near some timber we used to run around in — my kid brother actually set fire to it one time, but the volunteers got it put out before much damage was done. There really…<\/p>\n