Racing for change: Group encourages African-American women to try distance running

Throwing on a pair of running shoes and heading out the door is one of the cheapest, simplest forms of exercise. But when two college friends took up running to burn off some of the freshman 15-pound weight gain, their families and friends couldn’t relate.“[They] would ask us what we were doing, and when we said ‘running,’ they would look baffled,” said Toni Carey. She started running sh
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