It was a cool and cloudy morning with the threat of rain starting soon, when nearly 1,000 runners gathered at Portland Running Company for this year’s running of the Beaverton Half Marathon, 10k, and 5k. There was plenty of parking available in the surrounding business park, and packet pickup inside the store went smoothly and quickly. As I was walking along the sidewalk, an early-start half marathon walker was trying to make her way through…
