I started running back in 1974, on Miami Central High’s Track Team. My 50 years of running got me all the way through my army retirement back in 1994. I have logged 50,000 plus miles after my retirement from the army. Over the years I went from a six-minute mile, then seven, then eight and so forth. As a runner I dreaded when I became an 9-minute miler, as that was the worst! Nowadays, I am hanging on to my ten minute pace with all that I got. I am wonderfully comfortable being a ten-minute man. I have decreased my race