The Mile Run
I run anywhere between a 9 minute mile and a 12 minute mile depending on conditions and how I'm feeling. I don't feel there to be much reason to run more than a 5k. I have friends who run a lot more, but I figure I'm a big guy and I might need my knees and hips when I'm 70. I also run into issues when I run too much (and not enough stretching) with sciatic verve pain, aka sciatica , where I can feel nerve pain running from my lower back to the bottom of my right foot. There are also the grade school memories of having to run the mile. For a fat kid with asthma (I'll have to dig up my 4th grade basketball picture for confirmation) this was akin to a death March. Enough so that I seriously question the utility of this tradition along with all the other tests that seem only the elite athlete/gymnasts of those age groups can complete to any level of confidence building satisfaction. "Yep, I still mostly walk and wheeze a 15 minute mile". "Yep, I still...