Metric indeed.

I remember being told in Elementary school that the USA would become a
metric country starting in 1976.  They taught us the metric system and
told us how lame the old system was.  Made sense to me at 6 years old.

BFT

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Ken Bob Saxton
<KenBob@runningbarefoot.org> wrote:
>
>
> Go METRIC!
>
> I think on my birthday (July 28), I will attempt to run 54 meters, and just to make it more challenging, I will attempt to run that 54 meters in 54 seconds (failing that, I will try to finish in under 54 minutes).
>
> Have fun,
> -barefoot ken bob
>
> --- In RunningBarefoot@yahoogroups.com, Barefoot Ted <ted@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Ken Bob
> >
> > It was on July 1st. I set out to run 45 miles (deciding the day
> > before that that might be fun) barefoot of course. At 31 miles (50
> > kilometers) Leah suggested that I do kilometers, i.e., be finished, as
> > she wanted to go to dinner and I looked like I had fried...it has been
> > unusually hot here in Seattle.
> >
> > So, that's what I did.
> >
> > BFT...aka El Mono :)
>