https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:31:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/09/29/on-breaking-the-22-minute-mile-and-stumbling-on-happiness/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:09:16 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64927 When I was 12 years old, I read Roger Bannister’s account of breaking the 4 minute mile, pushing himself to the outer limits of human possibility, “collapsing almost unconscious, like an exploded light bulb”. I was inspired–and astonished. Run a mile in four minutes. The thought of it still baffles me! I walked a mile […]

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