Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 19, 2023

I did a race once that was as many times around a one mile course as you could do in 24 hrs. It was surprisingly not repetitive! The course goes around a church, through a forest, across a field of ankle deep mud, down a gravel road, through a playground… between the varied scenery, the novelty of running in different lighting conditions, and the ever changing company as different people stopped to eat and rest and jumped back in, I never got bored. My husband and I figured we would bang out a half marathon, which was about all we had trained for, and call it a day. But the infectious energy and the fun of running in darkness kept us coming back until we finished a marathon, then once we did that we figured we might as well take a nap in the car then stagger onward a few more miles to 50k. Ended up feeling pretty good about our effort, then found out at the breakfast banquet that the winner in my (kinda over the hill female) age group did 72 miles! The overall winner did something like 120. We passed her one go round eating an entire spaghetti dinner while taking a walk break!

There are many levels of crazy.

Don’t doubt, Dr Spaetzle

We often win, then doubt exactly what is was we won. Seems just the doing is not quite enough without some other affirmation.

The doc told me to walk 5 miles every day. Now it’s a week later and I’m 35 miles from my house.

Elisha Nochomovitz famously ran a marathon on his 7m balcony.

I put in 10,000 steps a day, and during times of inclement weather or during the winter, I’m doing laps in the basement. I turn on both pandora and what appears to be an over active imagination during my daily trek and thankfully it never gets old or repetitive.

And the North Country Trail is so CLOSE! Dr. Spaetzle could be a “Section Hiker” :-)

Would need an army of mercenaries to walk around the same block every day in NYC.

That really is a thing. Held in Queens starting Aug 30. Whaddaya know!

Okay, not only is the hyphen in “recommendation” on the wrong line (what’s the point if it’s not on the top line of hyphenation), but the word isn’t even hyphenated between the “d” and the “a”. Does Frazz learn nothing working in a school? Does his letterer not own a dictionary?

so… twice around the block?

Yes, the 3100 exists! >