One of the worst feelings you can experience involves staying up all night, boozing with fellow belligerents and pondering the many unanswerables of our perhaps-meaningless existence: The Devil won that fiddling contest, right? Is it still cheating if you can't remember? And then - zoom! - there goes an early-morning jogger, bright-eyed at 7 a.m., pounding the concrete like you did the bottle. Nothing makes you feel crappier about yourself. And ironically, few things can make you feel better than switching places with that jogger, because besides being physically beneficial, running helps release endorphins, our natural opiates. The ultimate situation is combining the two, as the Tacoma Thursday Runners: Run three miles then drink and discuss the run ... while wearing a Halloween costume. On your mark. Get Set. Boo!

TACOMA THURSDAY RUNNERS, 6:30 p.m., Puget Sound Pizza, 317 S. Seventh St., Tacoma, free admission, tacomarunners.com

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