Cross country runners, a life-changing secret

It is fall in East Texas. Bands practicing, homecoming parades, mum buying and Friday night football is in full swing.

At 7 a.m. in the Walking Capital of Texas, there were 40 school buses parked across from First Monday grounds. Unloading from those buses were junior high and high school students preparing for a cross country meet. The 650 plus teenagers had already put up their school tents, were stretching, jogging or just hanging out doing their own pre-race routine. The varsity boy’s race would begin at 8 a.m.

This batch of runners were out of bed before 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning, dressed, fed, loaded on a school bus and had arrived from all over North Texas.

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