Tallapoosa County’s District 2 Commissioner Steve Robinson has an unusual credit to his name: He has run all around the world, at least in a manner of speaking.
“I keep a training log on the distance I run each year,” he explained. “Last July, I passed 24,901 miles; that’s the circumference of the earth.”
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