My first brush with death.
I have awoken at 5 a.m. since my childhood. I have a built-in alarm clock. I am 100% when my eyes open in the morning. To the woe of my wife, Mary, I still rise at 5 a.m. even though I am retired. While I worked, I didn’t use an alarm clock. I have never been late to work.I was 16 years of age when I went to Lake Tahoe to attend a summer runner's camp. The last track season, I had beaten the world's greatest athletes' time in the 1,500-meter run. I had beaten Bruce Jenner's…