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...disease. It can also be a sign of an apparently benign condition that is likely to become more common as increasing numbers of Americans take up jogging and running. When a second test 48 hours after the first turned out normal, Zarmunsky's doctor diagnosed his condition as "jogger's kidney," or athletic pseudonephritis, a transient problem caused not by disease but by prolonged exercise...
...Jogger's kidney usually cures itself within 48 hours, but whether it can lead to more permanent kidney damage remains to be determined. David Jeffrey Fletcher, a second-year medical student at Chicago's Rush Medical College, is setting up a five-year study of long-distance runners to find the answer to this question. Until he does, says Researcher Gilbert Gleim of the Institute of Sports Medicine at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. fitness freaks should keep on running or jogging. The known benefits of such exercise, he says, far outweigh any known disadvantages...
Braden's notion of the miserable, duty-whipped jogger is hard to support by talking to the runners themselves. In farm country near Aurora, Ill., a couple of weeks ago, 17 souls who could have been sitting in front of the tube with six-packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water...
There is a class distinction here, however. Not many factories sponsor aerobics programs (though Jogger Jesse Bell, president of the Bonne Bell cosmetics firm, built a running track near his Cleveland factory, and paid employees $1 a mile for paddling around it, until some began lapping at the rate of $250 or more a month...
Margaux Hemingway was there, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Husband Mick and 150 or so other of Bianca Jogger's friends and loved ones. The occasion was her birthday (27 by her count, 32 by others), and Manhattan's Studio 54 discotheque was festooned with balloons and ballasted with artificial snow. A twin-towered, castle-shaped cake awaited Bianca, who pranced around on a white stallion. Said she: "It was the most marvelous party I have ever...