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A Run Around Lake Union

The best jogging routes are those that give you something to run from. And turf-fighting waterfowl, mysterious tech-gang tags, and head-scratching public art should do the trick. Matthew Baldwin takes us along his daily jog around Seattle’s Lake Union. Photographs by Kate Bicket.

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I am both a programmer and a Coca-Cola addict, a combination that could cause me to balloon like a self-inflating life raft at any given moment.

So, in an attempt to stave off the inevitable, I occasionally take a long lunch and run around Seattle’s Lake Union. Here are some of the sights along my route.

—Matthew Baldwin


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