1 Mile on my 41st birthday!

I ran 1 mile on the street for my 41st birthday just to see what my time would be.  I haven't run a mile for time in who knows how many years.   When I started running again a few years back the goal was 5 K's.  Which I have chronicled in this blog.  It was a difficult journey back.  Along that journey I went from running 5k's very slowly and  decreasing my time quite a bit as I improved.  Then I tackled increasing my distances and running further,   eventually running  13.1 miles on a dare.   Well I figured for a new challenge I would  find out how much slower I was at age 41 when compared to  back in my hey day.   So I mapped out a mile street course and timed it.      The result  6 minutes and 17 seconds.    It wasn't  what I was hoping for  which was 6 minutes----but still pretty good considering where HE FAT started on this journey when I was struggling to run a mile in 10 minutes,   but still no where close to the  4:36  best time I had in high school.     I guess it gives me a time to shoot for by age 42.    6 Minutes you are my new goal.  I'll try again in a couple of weeks and do it on the track and see where I'm at.