It's like waiting on a universe to be built, and then you go.
They are particularly unforgiving and sometimes unfair, but firmly decisive.
The time spent on the blocks can feel like a lifetime, but then there are ten seconds, and a finish line with immortality on the other side of it, if you are lucky.
My earliest memories of track competitions are of watching Florence Joyner, in the late eighties.
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