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The footsteps begin before dawn Wednesday morning on Tubman Boulevard, runners pounding away down the main artery into the heart of Monrovia. You don't find many runners in Liberia's capital, not in this West African nation more renowned for its brutal 14-year on-again, off-again civil war than for athletic success, but there are some, and they move steadily down the smooth, graying asphalt, sweating in the already developing summer humidity, faces stoic and resolved.
Most are training just for fitness, outfitted in baggy shorts and tanks and footwear that ranges from sandals to cheap sneakers to worn running shoes. Many are training as budding soccer players, heading…
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