I ran 3.1 miles today without stopping or walking. My high school gym teacher would be utterly shocked. Why? Because my senior year of high school, the gym teacher decided that we all needed to be able to run 1.5 miles in 15 minutes. She took us out to the track and told us to run 6 laps.
I couldn’t do it. I ended up walking for some of the distance, as did several girls in the class. One week later, she sent us to the track again and said, “Run!” She, of course, sat on the bleacher steps, surrounded by the girls who had successfully completed the task the week before. They talked about movies. This continued — the once a week run — for about 2 months, with a group of us never accomplishing the task at hand.
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