Two days later, runners across the country took to the streets to run 2.23 miles for Ahmaud, the distance a remembrance of the day he was killed: February 23. In Georgia, the McMichaels had finally been arrested, almost ten weeks after the murder. It was May 8, on what should have been Ahmaud’s twenty-sixth birthday. It wasn’t until the evening that Amir and I finally got out to do our 2.23 miles. All day I kept telling myself I would do it, but something in me didn’t want to. I was conflicted about honoring his life by running the miles associated with his death. I worried that the complexity
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