I'm a Runner: Nicholas Kristof  The New York Times columnist
discusses his life as a runner.  November 28, 2012  I heard you
wrote a piece for RW way back when? Yes. This must have been,
I'm guessing, my senior year in high school or possibly in my
gap year after high school. So around 1976-'78. It was about a
runner, a high school girl in Beaverton, Oregon, who was a
superstar high school runner. I wrote it as a 900-word feature
and I have a feeling that the editors, in their wisdom, turned
it into a two- or three-paragraph little item. I don't remember
if I got a byline or anything on it.  I wanted to start with one
of your New York Times columns, titled "Addicted to Exercise,"
where you describe yourself as a "pathological runner" and that
you might even be addicted to running. Can you characterize that
addiction? If I haven't run for a day or two, I get kind of
itchy and fidgety. I suffer withdrawal pangs. And really, the
only remedy is either to keep exceptionally busy or go out for a
good run. Working o