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Call it a run and hit.

Tonie Derezeas, 74, said was walking her Shih Tzu, Apollo, on the promenade at Carl Schurz Park on the Upper East Side on Sept. 3 around 7 p.m., when she was trampled by a herd of harriers from the New York Road Runners Club.

“I didn’t see them coming,” she said. “All I heard was crunch.”

A still battered and bruised Derezeas claimed the pack of 70 road hogs slammed into her, sending her reeling to the pavement, breaking her jaw and knocking out most of her teeth.

“I swear I thought I was going to die,” she said.

The joggers escorted the retired TV advertising producer to the curb, shoved a $10 bill in her hand, stuffed her in the back of a cab and went on with their run, barely breaking stride, she said.

Doctors rewired her jaw, broken in two places.

The Road Runners Club denied any official event that day.

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