Winter track season is just about at an end, and my daughter is looking forward to the spring. 
Part of the reason for that--besides the chance to be outside in pleasant, sunny weather--is the opportunity to stop running in little tiny circles.
Indoor tracks require distance runners like my daughter to complete 8 laps per mile. So I wasn't too surprised when she flatly refused to participate in an event like the newest fad in distance running: indoor marathons.
That's 150 laps around the typical indoor track. My older son has told "distance-running horror stories" about losing count of how many laps he'd run when he was only in a mile race: thinking he was done after lap 7, he slowed down only to have his coach yell at him to pick it up because there was another lap to go. Imagine trying to keep track of 150 laps.
And both my kids have complained of the tedium of running around and around the same little circle. But according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the monotony is part of the attraction. "When your friends hear you're going to run around the same course 150 times, they call you crazy, and that feeds the marathoner's ego," one runner explained.
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