It was a Tuesday and I was on my way to a running track. It was ‘Track Tuesday’, if you like – a well-known convention among several runners. But I wasn’t going to run around a regular, oval track on ...
The 400-meter running track at South River High School in Anne Arundle County, Maryland, was in bad shape. The rubberized surface was cracking, the asphalt had worn through the rubber in some places, ...