 Another reason athletes are flocking to the group is to discover D.C. on foot. It's important for us to not just like stay on the trails. So if you see, you know, 300 black people running down the street in different places, it's like, what is that? Gigi Barnett, WTOP News. Deion Thompson-DeVoli has passed by every porch of every row house, every school and restaurant and grocery store in the district, pounding the pavement in his running shoes.