My elementary school made everyone run "The Mile" every year. And I dreaded it, every year. A MILE? We'd take-off near the tennis courts, then run four laps around a kickball field. The first lap was easy. I slowed down a bit by lap two, and by lap three, my internal organs were malfunctioning in a way that if my P.E. teacher yelled "Pick it up!" one more time, an organ was bound to burst.