"mark" <
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>"[Not Responding]" wrote ...
>> Get fit the American way...
>>
http://www.646industries.com/mt/beyond_s/archives/000070.html
>Didn't you post something yesterday about your wife needing a car to travel .75 mile to the gym?
On my first visit to the US the conference was held in a hotel, and the recommended residence was a
hotel in the adjacent block. Being a poor British academic I stayed in a cheap flea pit about 4
miles away, and being a curious sightseer I walked to the conference hotel, arriving early.
I met some other early arrivers. They had been taking their morning fitness exercise. This consisted
of dressing up in running gear, driving one block from the residence hotel to the conference hotel,
parking, running round the conference block, having a shower, changing into their conference
clothes. This wasn't an isolated person, there were several folk who independently all did this.
They were awed to discover I had walked *4* *miles*, and clearly considered that such a feat of
endurance required a degree of fitness well beyond their meagre accomplishments.
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Chris Malcolm
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