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Article #14390Re: Daily gripe: jogger lost?
From: Marco Concha
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:00
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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. 2) Because pedestrians and their dogs are much more unpredictable than cars. 3) Because the street is usually smoother and provides more sight lines than a sidewalk. I provide this info not to say that running on streets does not make Walt's life more aggravating, but simply to explain the runner. Marco Concha
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,7259e8b8d4c17559 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: Marco Concha <Marco.Concha@gsfc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Daily gripe: jogger lost? Date: 1998/07/10 Message-ID: <35A62B83.5AC7@gsfc.nasa.gov> X-Deja-AN: 370210628 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35a67b83.1675301@news.pipeline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Marco.Concha@gsfc.nasa.gov Newsgroups: dc.driving