New York is a diverse city, but when Maria Solis Belizaire started running in 2016, she didn¡¯t see that reflected in the running community there.
¡°I would do these long runs or would go to these events, and I wouldn¡¯t find anybody who looked like me,¡± she said.
She began to ask around, looking for a Latino running community. She figured there had to be one in a city with a large Latino population. No luck. So she sat down one day to search online for such a group.
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