Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 24, 2022

Caulfield reminds me of me when I was a kid. Too smart for his own good, but not smart enough to know it.

Caulfield will be the first one to drive Mrs Olsen crazy in under four minutes – and he’s not even in high school yet.

The more annoying he gets the shorter his statistical life span becomes, right?

The 4 minute mile probably would be (would have been) done more except most track meets today run only metric distances now, like 1500 meters (which is a little under a mile) and 3000 meters (which is close to 2 miles).

A high school boy from my area recently broke the 4-minute mile!

https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/high-schooler-runs-sub-4-minute-mile-breaks-record-that-had-stood-since-1965/

Thing is, nobody runs a 4 minute mile and survives…

ADD myself, so I see me in this. Without Google though.

Teachers just don’t have a sense of humor.

In the time before railroads people believed that travelling at speed greater than 30 miles per hour would cause one to turn inside out. Alas, for some, this has turned out to not be true.

And we ain’t gonna tempt Fate.

Yeah, but Jim Ryun is still the man! His records and accomplishments in track are the Legend. ( And he was my paperboy ) Great guy whose sub 4 minutes mile records smoke Rogers. 1st high school sub 4 minute mile. Check it out.

I remember learning about Roger Bannister’s feat in one of my middle school classes. He was burned as a child and that later affected his running posture.

And many years ago high school basketball didn’t let girls play full court. Each team had 6 on the court but you had 3 only on defense, and 3 only on offense, and the players couldn’t go past halfcourt. They were afraid their uteruses would fall out or something ridiculous like that.

Nick Willis of New Zealand became the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile for 20 consecutive years. The latest was indoors at the Millrose Games in January, so he already has 2022 covered.

Caulfield is secretly her favorite student, even if he is a pain.

Why take chances

I don’t remember people saying anything about surviving that, just that it wasn’t possible. I do remember reading about experts saying that it was impossible to survive travel in machines at speeds much less than what we routinely exceed now.

Caulfield the pedant being incorrect? 1609m in a mile, not 1663 :)