Someone at practice reminded me that it was Friday the 13th (of March), exactly six years ago today, that the pandemic world started to unravel and our world began to stand still. After a great indoor track season in 2020, the outdoor track season of 2020 (along with all other collegiate sports) came to a screeching halt.
It doesn’t seem like it was six years ago already. By the same token, it also feels like 60 years ago. That pandemic spring – the early days of the Covid crisis – were really, really unusual times. In hindsight, it’s clear that most of the world was simply guessing about how to proceed. Good and bad decisions were made. Many, many lives were lost.
How soon we forget; I remember, vividly, the raw emotions and tears of our athletes at the end of that week when the reality of our sport being taken away smacked them hard in the forehead. We just took it for granted that there would be another practice and another season.
Here in 2026, we’re back to taking that for granted. We have practice today. Our outdoor track season begins a week from today, in Richmond. On and on and on, the practices and seasons just roll on by. Except for that dark period of 2020 and into 2021. This is a good time to take stock and be grateful for what we have, when the memory of what was taken away is so vivid.
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