When Robert Kraft started his run streak in 1975, he never expected how far it would take him.
“I had a few angry years,” Kraft says. A friend who went by “Bulldog” encouraged him to start running. On one run, he christened Kraft with his own nickname. “He said, you’re like a raven. You always wear black, you’re up late at night, and you write sad songs.” The two ran on and off throughout 1974, and Kraft—who now went by “Raven”—was starting to feel less angry.
discontinued 498’s. “I have 2,900 miles on them. I have other shoes, it’s just that these are the ones that work,” he says.That one-year streak kept on for decades, outlasting relationships, jobs, and even his bitterness about that damn song. , or the status of his poor, painful back. “The doctors said I shouldn’t be able to run, but I can. It ain’t pretty, but I can do it,” he says.amazon.comIn four decades of running, Raven has seen a lot, from baby sea turtles hatching to crazy weather. “Being in a hurricane is pretty amazing. You’re in God’s hands. Nature could do anything to you,” he says. But yes, he got his eight miles in through Irma and Irene and Wilma and the rest of the gang.
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