It’s about 80 degrees, above average for the first week of April, and the sun won’t set for at least another two hours. Isaac Bennett is wearing a worn-out green T-shirt and dark blue sweatpants as he leads the charge through downtown Tulsa. He starts running southwest from the corner of Black Wall Street, quickly past ONEOK Field and down Archer Street.
He’s headed toward Boulder Avenue, where he’ll traverse the first of four bridges on his evening run. It’s a regular Monday for Bennett, who’s joined each week by about eight to 10 other Tulsans. The group calls itself the run club.
“The first part is all flat, so it’s the easiest part of the run that usually gives us time to really warm up,” he told The Eagle. “And then when we hit that first bridge on Boulder, that’s when it really kicks in.”…