Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Speed

I mentioned the other day that I’ve upped my running speed. Currently clocking in at a max speed of 6.5 mph, yo (this is up from my original pace when I first started running 2 years ago of about 4 mph, and no you are not reading that wrong).

According to bestfunfacts.com, I now run faster than:

A garden snail (they run 0.03 mph)
image
A three-toed sloth (flying along at 0.15 mph)
image
A giant tortoise (blistering pace of 0.17 mph)
image
A spider (Tegenearia atrica) (slow mo-fo only gets up to 1.17 mph even with 8 legs)
image
ANNNND (thankfully) a cockroach (they can kill it at 3 mph…which, if I saw happening, would make me barf)
image

Someday soon, I’m going to catch up to a house mouse (whoa buddy, 8 mph)
image
and then eventually a chicken (9 mph and that’s without even having arms).
image

Ima get you, chicken. Then ima EAT YOU.

1 comment:

  1. We would make good running partners! My everyday running pace is about 5.7 mph. I go up to about 6 mph in races, and yes I can manage 6.5 if I push it. It's not lightning-speed, but we'll get the distance covered! It's funny, I was just remembering that I went running with you some time when we were kids... we must have been in 5th grade or something... though I don't recall it being a frequent occurrence...

    ReplyDelete