20/20 hindsight

[ursula]

When I was in grade school, we'd run the mile for Presidential Fitness Testing once or twice a year. I always ran the entire way, very slowly, and ended with the taste of blood and iron in my mouth. Is this:

(a) totally normal,
(b) a sign that I was unusually out-of-shape for a fifth-grader,
(c) a sign that I was unusually stubborn for a fifth-grader,
or
(d) a sign that I had undiagnosed asthma?

Comments

[zhelana]

I ha that too. It could be either though since both apply to me too.

[thistleingrey]

Based on how my own classmates handled that mile, I would assume that (b) goes with walking part of the way rather than running it slowly, and thus choose (d) with (c) implied. I was running in smog, which slowed the non-asthmatics down a little and made clear(er?) who did have asthma, I think.