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“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”-Sir Roger Bannister

I ran yesterday. No, check that. I jogged yesterday for the first time in a long time. I have never really had what you people might call, um what is it? Endurance. I may look like I am in halfway decent shape but I get winded very fast. And no, this is isn’t some recent development and I better go have a check up (although that’s not a bad idea). No, I haven’t had much endurance since high school. The best shape I ever was in my life was probably my senior year. I ran track or rather, I high jumped and long jumped and did the occasional hurdles and maybe even the 440 relay. I ran cross country during the offseason and the time that stands out to me is running a 2 mile race in 12:30. That’s about 6. 15 per mile. And that’s my goal for this year.

Yesterday, I jogged one mile in 11 minutes at 15 seconds. I think I have some training ahead of me.

Plus I am really sore.

Remember that scene in the first Superman movie and Jimmy Olson is taking pictures of a dam and Lex Luthor’s rocket hits the San Andreas fault and causes the earthquake on the west coast and then the Lois Lane’s car falls into a huge crack in the earth and the dam that Jimmy’s taking pictures of starts to crack and he almost falls in?

Anyone?

Well, this is that dam.

I wasn’t a big fan of the tour company (Airwalk Tours) that put together our Hoover Dam/ Lake Meade excursion but the dam itself is pretty impressive.

Although I kept imagining cracks appearing down this wall.