Some treadmill users

Usage examples of joggers.

Police cruiser on Seventeenth Street spotted the joggers and turned on its lights, trying to get them to stop.

The joggers angled over away from the Washington Monument, about fifty yards or so away from the Avenger, near a small information kiosk.

The two joggers had leaped behind the information kiosk, out of sight of the Avenger crew--and suddenly a burst of automatic gunfire erupted, sweeping across Lathrop's Avenger.

One of the joggers bolted toward the police cruiser, firing on the run.

Nell staggered and Katy's arms shot out, her other hand still clutching the joggers, to catch her attacker off balance.

Turning into the corridor they were jostled by twenty-four oncoming joggers, now showered and changed, who swept on past them into the vault.

In the vault the joggers went to twenty-four empty sarcophagi along the side wall, opened them, climbed in, and fell into twenty-four dreamless sleeps.