Trainers hang from the trees in Terre Haute, Indiana, an arboreal monument to cross-country careers.
Spectators rarely see the shoe trees at the LaVern Gibson cross-country course in Terre Haute, Indiana. But hundreds of high school and college runners who compete at the venue every fall know them well. The trees serve as a unique monument to completed cross-country seasons—and in some cases, to the end of running careers.
Who tosses them up there? No doubt a few pairs belonged to junior varsity stragglers, who were glad to see a season end and the daily grind of training halted. But it’s likely the branches also hold shoes formerly worn by at least a few collegiate All-Americans—and athletes who are trying to achieve that status.
“It’s in the area we have fenced off, where the teams set up their tents,” he said. “I saw the tree just on the outside of the course there, and I said to myself, ‘What in the world?’” The original shoe tree at LaVern Gibson is long gone. McNichols says that the accumulated weight of the hanging shoes is more than an immature sycamore can tolerate. “So we’ve gone through several [trees]; they’ve just fallen down,” he said. But the shoe-flinging continues with others in the grove.
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