Some context, my highschool in the US had a section of our PE class dedicated to working our way up to running a mile.
Just out of mild curiosity, if this was done in your school, was there a set distance you were ultimately tested on? 1 mile is about 1600 meters, which is surprisingly easy to translate to a 400m track, so was it just that? Or was it a rounder number like 1 or 2km?
I'm mostly coming at this curious about the distance, but I'm also interested in hearing a bit about if PE works the same way in Europe or exists in the way I'd recognize it at all.