Lela Moore, of the New York Times, Likes to Run

Lela Moore is a runner AND a fighter

If it wasn't for marathon running, says Lela Moore of the New York Times, she'd probably turn into a snarling virago at each full moon, what with the stresses involved in handling reader's comments.

While many readers are pleasant and appreciative of the work New York Times staff does to cover major world events, there are always a few soreheads who have a hatchet to grind; they find fault with everything from typography to POV to niggling factual wobbles. These are the people that would turn Lela's fetching auburn hair grey were it not for the kilometers she puts on her Skoras each week, running for hours in the rain while 'Bohemian Rhapsody' plays in the background until she sprints up those steps in Philadelphia and gives Rocky a high five.

 Her interest in running began as a child, when she suffered from mal de raquette. Her pediatrician put her on a strict regimen of running around the block, and a diet of vanilla PEZ. Moore soon discovered that a constant canter not only cured her of her illness but made it impossible for anyone to ever say anything negative to her -- she was simply too far away from them by the time they began kvetching. In college she majored in Advanced Loping. 

She once ran from Throop to Coxsackie on a bar bet.

Moore is a three-time winner of the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Contest, and was recently a runner up on Bowling for Dollars. 

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