One very dark, cool Wednesday morning in September, I walked onto the Alexander Graham Middle School track with 30 or so other runners. It was 5:30 in the morning. My mother would say that’s the middle of the night. A former high school cross-country runner and soccer player, I never competed on a track, never trained on a track and until last fall, avoided running on a track at all cost. But …
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