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- From: terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Clinton mediocre runner?
- Message-ID: <865@jgaltstl.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:18:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.175447.20289@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BzMpu2.t04@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec22.022717.3500@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.022717.3500@cbnews.cb.att.com>, jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
- + 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!
- +
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- Give me a break. I'm glad the President-elect is a runner. But his
- times are definitely mid-pack. That makes him a mediocre runner.
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