In the chaos of fleeing his home during the California wildfires of Gabe a high school senior missed the state-qualifying cross-country race for which he rsquo d been training Missing this meet meant he wouldn rsquo t have the chance to compete at the state meet mdash the culminating event of his four-year running career In light of the circumstances the state athletics board gave Gabe another chance he rsquo d have to run a qualifying time by himself on a rival high school rsquo s track in ldquo street shoes rdquo because his running shoes were in the charred [... more]