Richmond '11 -- The team spent the last couple of weeks very close to home, both during practice and on weekend race days. This past Saturday was the 48^th Wabash Hokum Karem, a six-mile relay-style flight through the school’s wonderfully flourishing Fuller Arboretum; and last Saturday the Redpack ran alongside family and alumni in the Charlie Finch Annual Alumni Run, a four-miler, also through the arboretum. Many of our most recent weekdays have been spent warming up and working out around the very same loop. I feel as though I’ve run more than half of my mileage since the beginning of school without leaving campus. Yes, that may be true. But I’m not complaining. The arboretum is great. All those trees, every one of them indigenous to Indiana, every one of them green and more attractive than any, I don’t know, car or fire hydrant I might pass on the road. And the ground is soft and grassy, much softer and grassier than any alley or street. And I know the course well. I’ll never have to worry about getting lost. And drive-by jeerers must have trouble jeering through the trees, because we do not normally have to listen to their petty vociferations while we’re hidden safely on our greener side of the sidewalk. And that’s nice, to be away from the jeerers. But the GLCA Championship meet in Ohio is this coming Saturday, so we must break with the security of the familiar. But we’ll be all right because we’re tough, because we don’t have to stop at stop signs.