An old acquaintance of his named Hugh asked Rock if he would help pace him through a 1000-meter indoor track race. Although perfectly untrained, Rock said he would, and then spent the rest of the day wondering whether he was at all capable.
Hugh, a seventy-year-old former age-group running star, needed to complete the race in 3 minutes, 48 seconds or less in order to qualify for an unspecified championship event. Rock later ran the numbers and became nearly certain he couldn't help beyond perhaps half the distance, particularly after he calculated that a 3:48 would require him to run at exactly a 38-minute 10K pace.
Rock stepped onto a 160-yard indoor track in an old abandoned warehouse to test his legs, and he wasn't at all surprised by their deadness. He was, however, a bit disappointed to find that not only was he incapable of completing 1000 meters at the pace Hugh needed but that he furthermore could not run the required speed at all, not even for a few steps.
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