Running to Save My Life

I ran my first kilometre when I was in Grade
five.  I hated it.



I was in Mr. Pawlak’s class that year.  Mr Pawlak was the resident health nut at our
school.  He wore gym clothes when he
taught us Math.  It was 1981, right
before the huge Adidas bag craze that hit in grade six in 1982.  He wore Adidas short shorts – the ones with
the white stripes down the sides – and he paired them with a