The Boy Who Gave Up the Race to Save His Rival

Number 212.

Coach Brooks adjusted it.

“There,” he said. “Now you look official.”

Marcus looked around. “I look broke.”

Coach Brooks did not smile.

“You look ready.”

Across the starting area, Bryce Chandler was laughing with two boys from a private club.

He had on a shiny warm-up jacket and shoes so clean they looked untouched by weather.

A photographer asked continue reading …