The word behoove has appeared in 78 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 25 in “When Your Workouts Turn Into a Work of Art,” by Scott Cacciola. The article is about a runner, Duncan McCabe, and his quest to use the maps of his daily runs on the exercise-tracking platform Stava to make an animated stickman.
In any case, all of Mr. McCabe’s runs are in their most pure form on his Strava account, and it might behoove his critics to remember that this is Strava, not the Olympics.
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