Well, I did it!\u00c2\u00a0 It took me about a half-hour to run an 8-minute mile, but I did do it.\u00c2\u00a0 And, I actually did it continuously without stopping.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew I’d have to go to a gym and do it on a treadmill, though.\u00c2\u00a0 There was no way I’d keep up that kind of pace on the street.\u00c2\u00a0 I began by walking, then jogging, then jogging faster, and I slowly pushed the speed up from about 5.3 to 5.5, then 5.7, then 5.9, then 6 and that’s when I really started to worry that I’d never get to 7.5.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I had a good song on, so I went pretty quickly to 6.3, then 6.5 and then the rest is sort of a blur.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I must have just punched it, pretty quickly, up to 7.5 and then just tried to concentrate on staying alive and not falling off the treadmill.\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up looking at the distance marker about every 2\/10ths of a mile, but they were going by pretty quick.\u00c2\u00a0 Point 2, Point 4, Point 6.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t believe it, I was actually gonna make it!\u00c2\u00a0 Point 8.\u00c2\u00a0 Hurray!\u00c2\u00a0 However, then the next song that came on was not a real motivator and I started to lose steam very quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 I worried I wasn’t gonna make it, but I just bore down and cranked out the rest of the lousy little one mile I had to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I spent another good 10 minutes on the cool-down.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m surprised at how the body really doesn’t want to slow down that fast, even when it was just screaming for you to slow down.\u00c2\u00a0 In any event, I’m very pleased that I did my EIGHT MINUTE MILE!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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