Apparently Governor Pillen is a runner. My wife, who works close to the capitol, was out for her daily walk at lunch when he came running by decked out in red running clothes. She said there was a state trooper on a bicycle following him as well as one of those black suburbans full of people protecting him. Pillen was running laps around the block the capitol building is on. Jenny said that after the first loop, they must have decided that a slow moving suburban 10 feet behind him on the street wasn’t the most practical idea, so it took off. Or it hid somewhere, like in the bushes.
I wonder how many miles he puts in. That’d be cool if the Governor started showing up at the Halfsie and Lincoln Marathon and Market To Market races. I wonder if he’d have to have a bunch of troopers surrounding him and keeping up if he was in a race. That’d be super annoying when trying to pass.
Or, maybe we could get a couple hundred runners to show up when he runs to join him like in Forrest Gump.