Edward Lehman: The Running
Man
Edward
Lehman loved to run. He would run in the morning. He
would run in the evening. He would run on the weekends,
sometimes for three and a half hours.
He belonged to a running club, and anytime there was a
benefit run, he would be there. He especially liked to
run for causes in and around Glen Cove, N.Y., where he
lived. He ran for the local hospital. He ran for the
local orphanage. He ran.
The funny thing was, the running started out as the
idea of his wife, Joanne, who had done sprints back in
school. A couple of years ago, she announced to him that
she'd like to start running again on a regular basis.
Long jogs, she discovered, were nothing like short
sprints. "I stopped," she said. "But he tried it and kept
it up. I guess you could say, he took it and ran with
it."
Mr. Lehman, 41, an assistant director in the risk
management area at the Aon Corporation, really got into
the fine points of the sport. He subscribed to running
magazines. He bought books on running. He elaborated on
his discoveries to his wife. "The man would just not stop
talking about it," she said. "I'd tease him, `Ed,
enough.' He'd talk about the pace for hills and all that.
He'd talk of the technical things. I'd say, `Ed, layman
terms, please.' "
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