Stella did not run for fun, or to keep fit, or because she could, she run because it released all the pent-up anger, all the hurt, she run away from all her emotions.
Exhaustion meant she could sleep, it meant her body hurt and so her mind never got a look-in.
One day Stella stopped running, she had taken enough- she sat on her porch, she cried, she screamed and she howled.
Stella still runs- sometimes - for fun.