RunningAHEAD - Topic: Hypothetical Question (page 2)

NateFromRI

posted: 5/14/2008 at 8:14 AM

This sounds like fun... I think I'd race.

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Lane

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:10 AM

Extended hypothetical question: If you see a commuter going along slowly on a bicycle, and think you can catch up, do you catch up and try to get them to race you? Most of the time, I live in a city, and some days, I'll race anything that moves, including people on bicycles, city buses, and leafs blowing in the wind.

Lank

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:15 AM

Quote from Daisy99 on 5/13/2008 at 9:28 PM:

The problem is that all the Rambos and two of the Rockies are automatically before any movie ever.

The original Rocky came in at 14th. Rambo? Not so much.

"Good-looking people have no spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter." - Lester Bangs

Mississippi

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:22 AM

Sounds like fun! I'd say do it. Now this has me thinking, hypothetical-like and all - If that hot guy running at the park last night would have asked me to join him, would I have been able to keep up with his fast (yet appearing effortless) pace? Big grin

Michelle

jEfFgObLuE

I've got a fever...

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:28 AM

My instinct would be to race, but hopefully sanity would take over. I'm sure I'd pull something trying a stunt like that.

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

PowerOfQ

Think Whirled Peas

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:42 AM

Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 5/14/2008 at 10:28 AM:

My instinct would be to race, but hopefully sanity would take over. I'm sure I'd pull something trying a stunt like that.

My guess is you'd reach DumpCON 1 (btw, shouldn't it really be DumpCON 2? Just sayin') well before the race was deturdmined, er, determined. And yeah, run 'til someone pukes is the correct answer here.

Just because running is simple does not mean it is easy.

Relentless. Forward. Motion. <repeat>

jEfFgObLuE

I've got a fever...

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:55 AM
modified: 5/14/2008 at 10:57 AM

Quote from PowerOfQ on 5/14/2008 at 10:42 AM:

My guess is you'd reach DumpCON 1 (btw, shouldn't it really be DumpCON 2? Just sayin') well before the race was deturdmined, er, determined.

Good question. I had assumed that DumpCON-1 meant that defecation was imminent and urgent, but perhaps it makes more sense for it to mean that defecation is actually occurring, and have DumpCON-2 mean imminent and unavoidable. OK, back after a little Wikipaedia research:

DEFCON-1: This refers to maximum readiness. It is not certain whether this has ever been used, but it is reserved for imminent or ongoing attack on US military forces or US territory by a foreign military power.

So you can be at DEFCON-1 without launching ICBM's. Based on this, I reserve DUMPCON-1 for an imminent or ongoing bout of defecation. I'll get back to you on the rest of the scale.

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

jEfFgObLuE

I've got a fever...

posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:58 AM
modified: 5/14/2008 at 10:58 AM

Quote from Mississippi on 5/14/2008 at 10:22 AM:

If that hot guy running at the park last night would have asked me to join him, would I have been able to keep up with his fast (yet appearing effortless) pace?

I think you would have been able to keep up with me. Tongue

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

PowerOfQ

Think Whirled Peas

posted: 5/14/2008 at 11:07 AM

Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 5/14/2008 at 10:55 AM:

Good question. I had assumed that DumpCON-1 meant that defecation was imminent and urgent, but perhaps it makes more sense for it to mean that defecation is actually occurring, and have DumpCON-2 mean imminent and unavoidable. OK, back after a little Wikipaedia research: So you can be at DEFCON-1 without launching ICBM's. Based on this, I reserve DUMPCON-1 for an imminent or ongoing bout of defecation. I'll get back to you on the rest of the scale.

Excellent research, kind sir! BTW, I now use DumpCON terminology every day, which amuses me greatly. My wife? Not so much.

Just because running is simple does not mean it is easy.

Relentless. Forward. Motion. <repeat>

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 5/15/2008 at 12:57 AM

Quote from Mississippi on 5/14/2008 at 10:22 AM:

Sounds like fun! I'd say do it. Now this has me thinking, hypothetical-like and all - If that hot guy running at the park last night would have asked me to join him, would I have been able to keep up with his fast (yet appearing effortless) pace?

You may have been inspired and discovered you were faster than you thought Big grin

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Berner

posted: 5/15/2008 at 3:34 AM
modified: 5/15/2008 at 3:35 AM

Quote from Lane on 5/14/2008 at 10:10 AM:

I'll race anything that moves, including people on bicycles, city buses, and leafs blowing in the wind.

I play race the bus all the time. I even try to make eye contact with the driver (or with passengers if the driver won't play) so that they know we're racing.

How To Run a Marathon: Step 1 - start running. There is no Step 2.

Frank4

posted: 5/15/2008 at 10:46 AM

Quote from C-R on 5/13/2008 at 4:24 PM:

Inconceivable

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. And yes, racing, especially against inanimate objects that don't stand a chance against me, is always good for sparking up a run.

jules2

posted: 5/15/2008 at 5:13 PM

Yes, and assuming she was young, had a nice butt and was wearing lycra she would win by a short distance. My eyes aren't as good as they used to be so I'd have to keep fairly close.

Old age is when you move from illegal to prescribed drugs.

Bonkin

posted: 5/15/2008 at 7:02 PM

Quote from Frank4 on 5/15/2008 at 10:46 AM:

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Or perhaps it's merely a reference.

When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?

ChknWingy

Oh Mighty Wing

posted: 5/15/2008 at 8:05 PM

Quote from Bonkin on 5/15/2008 at 7:02 PM:

Or perhaps it's merely a reference.

so was that quote - it was by Inigo Montoya... " Hello my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father prepare to die"

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