An ode to the nasal cocktail of wet grass, worn sneakers, and IcyHot.
Every now and then I’ll get a blast of a particular strain of menthol and find myself transported back to Lehigh University’s austere, drably colored indoor track. I’m lacing up myof my high school’s nylon warmup suits. They’re calling for my race, the 800 meter, to collect by the starting line. My heart is pounding, my stomach tightening. Nearby—and without fail—someone is applying IcyHot to his legs.
My most evocative scent memories of running are tied to high school, a time when, as a member of a close-knit team deeply invested in winning, the sport could feel like life or death, every race a dogfight. The heightened awareness has vividly preserved my sense impressions of that age. The smells of running are often the smells of the places we’ve run.
and wet grass when the sprinklers click on. The gladiatorial fume of a polyurethane track baking on a hot day., her formative time as a young athlete living alone in Boulder, Colorado, will forever be tied to the butterscotch-like wafts from Ponderosa pines. “It smells like summer and heat and freedom and just being alive in the mountains, moving,” she says. Now, living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and running on trails, the dominant smell Arnold experiences is of sagebrush.
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