The Record.

This just needs a whole new post; when "Jay" gets a blog, he can state the record, until then, that is what I am here for. From the front seat, I could see the speedometer, it read 24 mph when I heard "Jay" say "I could get out and run this fast." That appearing to be a laughable statement, "Bill" did the math off of 20 mph because 24 base math is more difficult for someone who is driving and laughing than 20 base math. Let's face it, 24 base math is more difficult even if you have a calculator because like we all know, math is hard. So, if "Jay" is able to get a 20 mile an hour sprint, while I will be impressed, it will not be 24 mph.

If you don't read comments left in blogs, than you missed out this time. Please, do us all a favor and weigh in on the validity of this data: Two guys bs-ing. To give credit, the author of the linked thread appears to teach or research at Stanford. However, the rest of this thread is about weather a fast moving elephant is actually running, or just going fast and the application it might have to the question "did dinosaur's run?" The person who wrote in about human running speeds I think might just be wondering if he could out run an elephant, which isn't even relevant to the thread. "Jay" should for sure race that guy. While I don't think "Jay" can run 20 or 24 mph, I still think he could beat the elephant running guy. Also, the bit about running 27 mph, the author says "sprinters can hit ~27 mph at peak instantaneous speed" Not to sweat this guy but last time I checked instantaneous means done, occurring, or acting without any perceptible duration of time. So, runners can run 27 mph for an imperceptible period of time. I don't want to go into the list of super human feats I can manage for imperceptible periods of time, lets just say, it is quite long. Honestly, this is helpful. I now require that "Jay" run the 24 mph for a perceptible period of time. After all, not like 24 mph is 27 mph.

Incidentally, this conversation was all sparked from this Darwin Award in case anyone cares to check it out. Everyone knows Danish people run slow.

I think for the running experiment, the truck should be brought up to 24 mph, and "Jay" should get to start running before the truck even gets there. He should easily be able to get up to 24 mph and run evenly with the truck for a good 50 yards or so. Maybe there should be a second vehicle going 20 mph, just to see if he is hitting the easy figuring mark. Also, "Jay" will be positioned outside the truck to make sure death is not involved.

Odd, "Robbie Underpants" jumped from the back of my truck and it wasn't even going 15 mph, and everyone laughed at him for hitting the ground and rolling. "Robbie" looks equally built to run. I know it is all speculation... Science will bare out the truth. And by science I mean "Jay" trying to keep up with a car.