Mile run

So yesterday was my first race ever, the Bloor Street Mile.

The reason I signed up for this race is I thought, well, a one mile race sounds pretty easy to do.

It's the shortest amount of mileage possible.

And that's probably the best way to start off my running journey.

So we line up and so my run club, which consists of basically my friends and my sister, they've all been running for many, many years.

They've done marathons, half marathons.

I think this was the first mile race for a couple of them.

So that was pretty different and exciting for them as well.

Yes, I'm Edward Ray Hill.

I've written a book called One Mile at a Time.

And that book is really basically what I think is the impetus for this podcast.

Because it's really a story that I needed to tell.

And I no longer was looking at winning the race.

I was looking at finishing it the best way I could against the fact that we were last place so far behind.

and that's where the one mile at a time came that is the approach i took i had 2 000 miles to go to san diego no hope of winning it i thought and and it was one mile at a time i kept on telling this gonna take it one car one mile at a time and that is exactly what happened and in the outcome of the book you'll see kind of a really And I was shocked when I got there and found out that we had won that race by 10 minutes.

And it's a story.