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For Fun And Love
July 3rd, 2008 by Angela Brown
Barbara Guterman has a tradition that she keeps every July 4th. She laces up her running shoes, heads to Potomac Village to run the Autism Speaks 5K Run, and cries.
"Historically I start the race crying because I can’t believe the amount of support that’s there and I end the race crying because I’m in so much pain. No, just kidding."
It may not be the whole truth, but Guterman’s joke captures the spirit of the annual run, which will enter its eighth year the first weekend of July. Roughly 2,000 people turn out each year to raise money to research the...