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From: [e-mail] (gordon k chace x2367)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: Clinton mediocre runner?
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Date: 22 Dec 92 15:57:45 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
|> This letter appeared in the New York Times a little while ago:

|>     Clinton's race time of 24:16 in a five-kilometer run as "fair
|>     at best" and a "mediocre jog." His pace per mile was 7 minutes
|>     and 50 seconds. I have been running for 20 years, and can
|>     assure you that a 7:50 pace is quite respectable and certainly

|>     Edwin A. Salsitz

Clinton really is mediocre (ie, average or not much worse) amongst
people who run in races.  That makes him good compared to runners who do
not race, and d*mn good compared to the sedentary.

But he sure *looks* slow and flabby in the video clips!  First I ever saw
of him as a runner was a still photo in a newspaper, from looks of stride
(leading heel about to strike with trailing toe still brushing pavement)
I would have thought he would be 10 to 11 minutes per mile.

Trivia time: from the newspaper photo it looks like he wears ASICS.

--
Gordon K. Chace (who runs in ASICS shoes)
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