The Death of a Spectacle
On Jared Lorenzen and what it means to be an overweight fan favorite
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9 min readAug 27, 2019
According to Strava, a GPS app that records athletic activities and shares them with other athletes, I have run the Riverwalk Mile, a tree-covered path that follows the Black Warrior River in my town of Tuscaloosa 183 times. It is my most covered route — sometimes running it upwards of six times in one…