Takapuna Beach at 7:00am

A runner goes against the flow.

A fabled time exists between the hours when the night-crawlers lay down to sleep and before the closely related family of humanoid creatures rise to worship the sun. This time is commonly known as early morning. Rarely viewed by myself, I can confirm from recent abnormal experience that this time does in fact exist.

In the thick of the pack.

And more than just exist. Some species thrive and can perform physical activity even before blood temperature has reached workable levels.

Race start.