This year’s Turkey Trot offers a fascinating lesson in, of all things, economics. The 117th annual running event - the longest continuous annual road race in the country - raised its entry fee this year for the first time in quite a while. Yet the organizers could have raised it even higher, and not received many words of complaint. That’s how popular the Trot has become, particularly in recent years. Let’s start with the basic information about the race. The Turkey Trot will feature 14,000 runners on Thanksgiving morning. That’s another all-time high for the event, which goes from North Buffalo to the Convention Center. In fact, registration will be...
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