After completing a lap, they paused on the steps to recite a silent prayer.
They paused on a corner at 23rd Street, puzzled by the sight of young men and women wearing lights strapped to their heads, crouched over spiral notebooks, scribbling charts and checking codes.
They paused on New Dorp Lane, and a man at the rear of the coffin gave it a little knock, the signal for them to turn and place it in the rear of a waiting hearse.
Zelda came with him, but they paused on the way to drop their daughter Scottie, who had turned 6 that past autumn, with Zelda's parents in Montgomery, Ala.
The Australians were also short of supplies and, as a result, they paused on 21 November while supplies were brought up to them, before the advance resumed the following day.
As they slept in the squares, the migrants babies, elders, mothers, teens and men from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala were often robbed or raped as they paused on their journey to seek asylum in the United States.
Often when I tell people that DreamChange's annual business conference is called The Love Summit, they pause to reflect on whether they heard me correctly.
Here they pause for a photo on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
As they pause to read the inscription on the massive marble slab, many wonder about the man buried there 94 years ago and whether he was truly unknown.
