Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 06, 2022

For me it would be about 2,160 steps.

If you walk backwards, does it count down?

The mile is actually 1000 paces for a troop of Roman soldiers (a pace is the distance between when the same foot comes down, so two steps). Comes from the Latin word for 1000. We also know that a person’s pace is pretty close to their height (at least for a vigorous young to middle aged person). So we know that the average Roman soldier was about 5.28 feet tall. Five foot three or a bit above.

Get a dog and name it one mile and walk him every day!!

Sounds like a Lao Tse joke to me, Frazz.

Brilliant again, Jef! ..if I do tze so myself.

If she walked with Marmaduke, it would probably be 7000 steps!

You’re not gonna get a direct answer out of Frazz.

The Roman army mile was 1000 5ft paces. However, a pace was 2 steps, every time the left foot hit the ground was a pace. The English mile is based on 8 furlongs.

At her likely stride, between 3,500 and 4K. That is, if it’s all on the flats, and if she actually completes it. Depends on the distance between where she starts and the donut/coffee bar.

I guess my watch bases the steps per mile on the height I entered. It could be more accurate but a lot more work for the watch owner.

And +1 for “you don’t tze”.

And for Mrs. Olsen Frazz doesn’t count, either

Just walk 30 min like all us old coots should do each day. That should pretty closely equal at least a mile.

So this week was just a set up for a Lau Tzu joke??

The spirit of Pastis compels you.

Laosy pun…

Actual steps per mile? Between 2,000 and 2,500. Steps counted by a fitness band? Between 1,000 and 2,000. That’s why your Fit Bit sets your goal at 10,000 steps (approx. 5 mi.) per day.

Reaching.

Neither do I.

Is h—l freezing over? I ask because Mrs Olsen just made a pun.

(The Chinese measurement term is “Li”.*

Li (unit) – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_(unit)

Li (Chinese: 里, lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, is a traditional Chinese unit of distance. The li has varied considerably over time but was usually about one third of an English mile and now has a standardized length of a half-kilometer (500 meters or 1,640 feet). This is then divided into 1,500 chi or “Chinese feet”. The character 里 combines the characters for “field” (田, tián) and “earth” (土, tǔ), since it was considered to be about the length of a single village. As late as the 1940s, a “li” did not represent a fixed measure but could be longer or shorter depending on the effort required to cover the distance. There is also another li (Traditional: 釐, Simplified: 厘, lí) that indicates a unit of length 1⁄1000 of a chi, but it is used much less commonly. This li is used in the People’s Republic of China as the equivalent of the centi- prefix in metric units, thus limi (厘米, límǐ) for centimeter. The tonal difference makes it distinguishable to speakers of Chinese, but unless specifically noted otherwise, any reference to li will always refer to the longer traditional unit and not to either the shorter unit or the kilometer. This traditional unit, in terms of historical usage and distance proportion, can be considered the East Asian counterpart to the Western league unit.

It is a saying from China.

I really laughed, this was so unexpected in Frazz. To me it was a perfect laugh-maker, mine was such a full, emotional experience (wonderful) that my experience of the past few months here disappeared totally from my mind and body.