Danial Replogle, a Geneva College student enrolled in a 100-level Physical Fitness course, passed out
after his 63rd lap around the gym in Geneva’s Metheny Field House. Geneva physical fitness
professors have used the relatively small indoor gym to facilitate its mile-run testing since 1988,
when it was decided that having kids run lap after lap was simply “hilarious.” On Tuesday,
sophomore Danial Replogle had the goal of being the fastest runner in his class of 14.
“I felt really good for the first 40 laps,” he recalls from his hospital bed, new IV fluid freshly
attached. “Somewhere around lap 55 my body started to shut down.”
Despite his heroic efforts, Replogle had his dream crushed as he blacked out
towards the end of lap 63, a mere 27 laps short of 1 mile. Fortunately for the class, the
absence of a clear lesson plan should generate many more opportunities for the mindless
circle running embraced by students.
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