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Keep Moving!

A guide on how not to give up, no matter what your life and legs throw at you.

Running movie buffs among you may recall Lickety Split in The Jericho Mile, a 1979 Emmy-award winning movie, set in Folsom prison and shot on location, using 28 convicts in various roles.

Larry Murphy (played by Peter Strauss), is a convicted murderer and nicknamed Lickety Split by the other inmates due to his obsession with running around the prison yard, while other testosterone-fuelled inmates pump weights.

Larry has no idea how fast he is, but his talent is spotted by the warden

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