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Let me try this:
Running
I saw a running deer in the meadow behind my house.
The deer is running so the running is a participle.
I entered the third running of the Dinwiddie marathon, finishing in 17 hours 35 minutes 23.86 seconds, a personal best.
Running is used as a noun, so it is a gerund.
They gave me a third-running T-shirt anyway.
The T-shirt is not running. Running is part of an adjectival noun phrase. It is still a gerund.
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