If...

I'm sure you're all familiar, to a greater or lesser extent, with Rudyard Kipling's "If...", but like me you may not be aware that the full poem incorporates an exhortation to do speedwork. I quote the final verse here:-

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

I'm sure it also applies to ladies.