It started me on a lifetime search for a "40-acre whitetail rifle," a rifle (and a load) that could accurately reach out to 440 yards and reliably anchor a standing animal at that distance.
As part of a reconfiguration of the track announced on Wednesday, the distance from the last fence to the winning post has been nearly halved, from 440 yards to just over a furlong.
The 32nd came completely unexpectedly in the women s 4x400 on the last night of athletics, Mandeep Kaur taking the baton home to clinch India s first track title since Milkha Singh s 440 yards gold at what was then the Empire and Comonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958.
"We went through 440 yards in 60 seconds, 880 yards in two minutes and, after he stepped aside with just over a lap to go, I went through the bell in three minutes exactly.