ATLANTA — It’s 5:45 a.m. on a brisk Wednesday as about two dozen men and women gather in the parking lot of The Varsity restaurant in Atlanta.
After warm-up exercises, they are off for either a 3-mile or 2-mile run or walk on Peachtree Street.
This, though, is not your typical running club.
These runners are part of Back on My Feet Atlanta, a nonprofit that changes lives – step by step – of people who are homeless and those struggling with addiction.
When Montavious Montfort first ran with the group two years ago, he hit the streets in a pair of black rubber slides he owned, “like my grandmother would wear.”