PHILADELPHIA - An early morning run on Christmas Day ended with a trip to the hospital for a well known runner in Fairmount.Bennet Brookstein has been running in Philly since middle school.In fact the marathon runner started the Fairmount Running club 18 years ago."Obviously running together, volunteering, and safety," said Brookstein. "Those were our three points for starting a running club."He said in all that time this was the worst run of his life.He can count the amount of times he’s run alone in Philly on his two hands.Saturday morning he showed up for a group run and no one showed up so he took off on his own.A couple of miles in he was brutally attacked on the path near Martin Luther King Drive and Black Rd.He was able to get away.