I am trying to run a mile. I cant quite make it but I am close.
English mile gained its current definition of 1,760 yards through a statute of the Parliament of England in 1593. Thus, the history of the mile run began in England and it initially found usage within the wagered running contests of the 18th and 19th century. Such contests would attract large numbers of spectators and gamblers – so many that the activity became a professional one for its more-established participants.
The mile run was at the heart of the divide between professional and amateur sports in the late 19th century. Separate world
such an immense amount of their time and mine in experimenting on different poses, always trying to make a pretty handsome thing of each part in each new pose so as not to ascribe the fault to the composition when it really lay at the door of ugliness of the rendering that I have far from "done", now, but am full of conviction that it represents progress to say the least.
and later
I have not quite done my big portrait of the two wonderful young women, one of them having