I know three women who get up at 4am to exercise. Two are runners.
If you want to wake up at 4 am to exercise fine. But you don’t run in Memphis at 4 in the morning. She was abducted on Central Avenue beside the University of Memphis.
On the other side of the University of Memphis is Orange Mound, a pretty rough neighborhood. When looking for a daycare for my kid we checked out a place near the university. You could see an apartment building across the train tracks, which is at the edge or Orange Mound.
A man who lived in those apartments was asleep in his bead when a bullet came through the window and killed him. Then I thought what if it were daytime and the bullet went the other way into the kids’ playground? I passed on that daycare.
Then not too far from campus is a nice shopping center and a Panera Bread. A student was walking there to study and get something to eat when he was held up at gunpoint. He shielded himself with his backpack and heard shots, but he was not hurt. When he got to Panera Bread and pulled out his laptop it had a bullet lodged in it.
Then I live as far from the ‘hood as you can get. One night I heard 5 rapid pistol shots. Well there went one of the neighbors. You can still see the spot where they bleached the blood off his driveway.
You don’t jog at 4 in the morning in Memphis. Not in the good areas, not in the rich areas, not at the university, you just don’t do it.