Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 10, 2022

“What is it if you just go out and don’t run?”

“0K”, which sure looks to me like it’s OK.

Keeping track allows you to know when you’ve done enough. And perhaps push yourself to do a bit more.

It’s good to see that Frazz is not obsessed about all this.

I only run until the dog/police/jealous husband chasing me gets tired. ;)

5 kilometers is … 5k.

10 kilometers is … 10k.

21 kilometers is … a half marathon.

42 is … the answer to all questions.

That’s called a Forrest Gump subplot.

Run ‘til yer dun

I wish the US would go metric:But now it is US, Liberia, and Myanmar that aren’t on the system . I guess ameriKKKa won’t or cant. Always kind of thought it was odd, how long US money has been on a system of 10s.

I took part in a charity bike rally and at the starting line the cyclists on either side of me started talking about their times and what they were planning on completing this time.Then one turned to me and asked what my planes were. I sheepishly said I just planed on getting to the end.They said “We have a tourer here!” and high-fived me

I have a friend who started walking and then running a little for his health. Now he has run well over 100 5k’s. He even dresses up for them with funny hats and wild shirts.

This is why America never learned metric. Why keep believing you have to convert to miles or inches? A kilometer and a meter are easy to visualize and keep track of with their decimal multiples. A kilometer is a thousand meters… how many feet in a mile? No need to remember all those odd conversions at all for metric.

Road bike mileage 62 miles equal 100 kilometers. Always tell ‘‘em you rode a hundred. Sounds better.

I used to just run for fun. It was wonderful. What a feeling, so alive!I never thought about or cared to know how far I ran. I do miss it.

I admit that changing to metric is reasonable, but all the world is still stuck with the ancient measurements of time (dating from Babylon) – try changing that. Will we end up with the original Battlestar Galactica system (centons, etc.)? But even that system had 24 units in a day, so Egyptian influence will remain unless we go to a division of 10 ‘hours’ for a full day-night cycle and divide by 100 and then either another 100 or even 1000 for more precise measurements.

Once saw a sticker on the back of a car: Instead of 13.1 (half marathon), it read 14.3, and then in fine print said “I got lost”.

I usually bike for three or four millifortnights and go forty furlongs or so before my arthritic hip starts to complain.

As a former auto mech I found metric to be easiest, 10mm to small? get a 11mm. Toyotas were easy to work on because most common bolts were 10 – 12 – 14mm. Fords were a pain because they incorporated some metric and SAE back in the 90’s. (and the fact I stink at math made fractions a trial)

There was an effort in the 70’s but John Wayne representing some cowboy group denounced it as un-American. That was the end of that. Not everyone in the US is a caveman. If you check the fasteners on American made cars they are all metric. As an engineer I ended up designing in metric. There is an interesting story of how we might have started out using the metric system. Google Thomas Jefferson and the metric system.

It’s a thing. I’ve done it. Wish I was running again.

I saw someone write online about being asked to join their company’s 401k. They wrote that they couldn’t imagine running that far.