If you want to become a faster runner, you’ll probably end up doing a lot of speedwork on a track. Or if you live in a hilly place, you might wish you had a nice flat track to run on. But how do you ...

Track and field has been a source of consistency in my life since I began running as a high schooler in 2014. A standard 400-meter track (about a quarter of a mile in length) is beautifully ubiquitous ...