When runners competed in Alexandria on Saturday morning, they couldn’t see the finish line. Instead, sprinting backward, they had only their instincts and their teammates to guide them.

Despite what the b-roll helicopter shots might have led viewers to believe, we were actually an hour south of the city at a mid-sized oval track next ... for several years running with the NYC ...

Alex Palou doused his previous 0-for-26 record on ovals with a swig of milk and the swagger of the three-time series champion ...

It was ‘Track Tuesday’, if you like – a well-known convention among several runners. But I wasn’t going to run around a regular, oval track on said Tuesday. Instead, I was going to run ...

But I have the confidence that, if The Powers That Be in Formula One expressed their interest in running an oval in the near future, then someone somewhere would purpose-build them a track.

The G-forces on the cars are insane enough to put a hurting on a GoPro in under three minutes on track, and this video lets you see just how intense it is to lap an oval in an Indy car.

If you've seen a race at Churchill Downs, you know the horses run on an oval-shaped track. But, why is it an oval, and not a circle or other shape? "With being an oval, it helps with the horse's ...