It’s 37 degrees at 8:00 in the morning at the Vanderbilt track. The sky is clear with wisps of cotton floating along. The track is empty, but the tops of heads bob up and down at a steady clip behind the fence bordering the track. Who would run in nearly freezing temperatures? The tops of the heads become full people as the women and men’s cross country teams file into the track through the open gate at the track’s south end.
It’s SEC Championship week. This year, the championship meet is held in Auburn. The men and women will race on Friday, October 26.