For one Friday night in May, the bicycle pump track at Oro Valley’s Naranja Park became The Circle Pit.
Professional athletes and people from more than 20 countries ran, jumped, and occasionally crashed on the hilly, winding, compact, hot, joint-pounding pump track, driven by the amplified, hardcore sounds of punk bands JiveBomb, UpChuck, One Step Closer and Drain.
“It’s going to be rough on the knees, for sure,” one runner said beforehand…