Before I watched the Little Rock McClellan Lions beat the eStem Mets 67-64 in a basketball game at the Lion's Den tonight, I walked for 34:19, including two laps of the McClellan track that I truly believe has the same rubberized asphalt surface on which I won the McClellan Lions Relays half-mile run back in 1977. I jogged about 20 yards just so I could say I ran on it for the first and probably last time since the spring of 1979, back when I lived about a mile away on Baseline Road as a college sophomore. I did intervals out there that semester.
The school will close at the end of this semester to be combined with Little Rock Fair next fall at a new school on Baseline, right where I lived way back then. Maybe the City of Little Rock will maintain the track for the poor neighborhood it has served for the last fifty years or so.
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