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Article #14381Re: Daily gripe: jogger lost?
From: Josh Turner
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:00
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Walt Horning wrote: > > Marco Concha <Marco.Concha@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: > > >Walt Horning wrote: > >> > >> Coming down the road is a jogger. Why the hell was she not on the > >> sidewalk, but in the street instead??? > > > > > >1) Because the street is paved with asphalt, which is softer and kinder > >to the feet and legs than the sidewalk, which is usually concrete. > > What, is it "softer" at the microscopic level? Asphalt may be "softer" > to a truck, but its hardly "softer" to a human. > That's simply not true. Asphalt is noticeably softer than concrete even when walking, but its especially noticeable when jogging or running. Why do you think they don't make running tracks out of concrete?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,7259e8b8d4c17559 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: Josh Turner <shua@umich.edu> Subject: Re: Daily gripe: jogger lost? Date: 1998/07/11 Message-ID: <35A7D99E.7100@umich.edu> X-Deja-AN: 370573771 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35a67b83.1675301@news.pipeline.com> <35A62B83.5AC7@gsfc.nasa.gov> <35a8afd9.44098984@news.pipeline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: shua@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 17:35:46 EDT Newsgroups: dc.driving