COLUMBIA — The Columbia Track Club leads a running group every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 5:30 a.m. Despite the cold, 20 to 30 runners gather at the Forum Boulevard entrance to the MKT Trail for a roughly 2 1/2-mile run during the winter months.
They are Columbia's avid runners who would rather run in the extreme cold of winter than the extreme heat of summer. The trick is to take extra precautions, runners say.