RUMFORD —  It was time for a track makeover.

Rumford’s public recreation Hosmer Field Athletic Complex quarter-mile track has been closed to the public this past week for needed repairs.

The track repair should be complete, weather permitting, in another week to week and a half, said Matt O’Brien of Vermont Tennis Courts of Saint Johnsbury, part of the three-man crew responsible for the track repair.

“When we began work on the track on Monday it was in rough shape,” O’Brien said, with a lot of pretty bad holes.”

“It took us a full day and a half doing prep work such as filling in the holes on the asphalt track,” he said. “We then began applying two coats of rubberized coated asphalt to the track.”

The importance of adding rubber with the asphalt will make the track more absorbent and easier on the impact on track users joints and limbs, O’Brien said.

“We would have been further along on this project were it not for Wednesday’s storm’s heavy rains,” he said.

“Our crew is thrilled we don’t have to paint the lines,” O’Brien said of the track lines used in competition. “We have a crew with a machine coming to do that when we’re done.”

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