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“It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle — when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

— Christopher McDougall

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Up and down a flinty hillside path at his team’s training camp facility Monday, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton ran in what looked like a haphazard relay with several members of his coaching staff.

Up the hill near the team’s headquarters, they ran before spinning around to jog back down again to the lower practice field, where they hoisted kettlebells and did some hybrid pushups/jumping jacks.

It was inspiring to those in the media covering Saints training camp, at least until we climbed the three steps into the media work trailer to see if there were any doughnuts left over from breakfast.

The scene — the running of the coaches, not the scramble for the doughnuts — symbolized a major theme for Saints training camp 2014:

Running is good for you. Doughnuts are not.

Read more: Rabalais: Running game advances will be critical to offensive health | Saints | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA

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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

All little common sense goes a long way.