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- From: jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp)
- Subject: Re: Clinton mediocre runner?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:27:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.022717.3500@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec21.175447.20289@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BzMpu2.t04@austin.ibm.com>
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- spit@austin.ibm.com (John F. Spitzer) writes:
- >> In a Nov. 27 news article, you characterize President-elect
- >> Clinton's race time of 24:16 in a five-kilometer run as "fair
- >> at best" and a "mediocre jog."
- >This mild ridicule does seem unwarranted, but I'm curious to see the original
- >article. Does anyone have the original and can either transcribe or at least
- >communicate the context of the article?
- >
- >I wonder what the original author's 5K time is -- if he/she could run that far!
-
- I don't have the article, but I'd wager that the reporter asked a runner
- at the race if the time was any good. And let's face it, runners often
- think anyone who runs faster than them is a god and anyone who runs slower
- than them is a turkey -- when in the big picture, someone who can string
- three eight-minute miles together is definitely ahead of the game!
-
- ---
- Joe Knapp jmk@cbvox.att.com
-