Roads for building strength of spirit

The courses in Futtsu Park are great for first-rate athletes, visually impaired runners, and wheelchair racers. The full course is 5.6 km, while the shorter course is 2.8 km. The road surface is extremely flat, which makes it good for such sports. The roads are uniform with no undulations, so they’re good for building mental fortitude. You can build mental stamina by continuously running the same course.
On the map, Futtsu Park appears as a rectangle. It is easy for those with profound blindness and those with reduced vision to master the course. For example, you can feel after you’ve run a certain distance that it’s time to turn. One corner has a bulge in it, so this feature makes it easy to know where you are.
The longest straight section is exactly one kilometer. You can learn to sense this distance by running it. Many people have honed their senses on this course. Some people count the number of steps. Say, the previous lap was 2480 steps, or 2500 steps. Some people have the ability to internally measure their own pace. They understand much better than sighted people where and how they are running.
If there were street lamps, you could even run at night, and lights would probably be good for preventing crime. If each corner had an audio signal, it would make the course even easier for visually impaired people to run. Worldwide, there are hardly any courses designed to be easy for visually impaired people to run. I think it would be good to make Futtsu Park the world’s first such course.