In Fort Worth, the Seventh Street Gang, a group of business leaders, hand-picked Ms. Price, a long-distance cyclist and avid hunter, to run.
At its end, however, Ms. Stritch has the avid look of someone raring to run a steeplechase.
He had escaped sports agents hounding him only to run into avid Hokie fans, in canned goods or in electronics, asking him for autographs or simply trying to get a glimpse of the 6-foot-1-inch, 214-pound left-handed quarterback.
In "Born to Run" (Knopf), Christopher McDougall, an avid runner who had been vexed by injuries, explores the world of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, a tribe known for running extraordinary distances in nothing but thin-soled sandals.
But South Korea, a land of avid Internet gamblers, has given a gaming license to Tiger Pools Korea to run soccer betting for the duration of the tournament.
Kansas State needs to run, run, run.
Mr. Serafinowicz, an avid user of Twitter, said the online reaction to "Running Wilde" he had seen was generally encouraging.
Even so, they were avid to collect more.
In trying to explain how Bush always an active man and an avid jogger could have run such a lifeless campaign and performed so poorly in formal debates with Clinton, some analysts postulated that Bush was hampered by medication he had been taking to treat his atrial fibrillation, reportedly caused by Graves disease.
