Well for me since I have only been going for a couple months I could only maintain a speed of about 8.5 km/h when I slowed down and around 9.5 km/h when I was pushing it. I have to admit watching the little dot on the track did make me want to go faster because you can set it to best your last lap.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Pat Naughtin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/06/13, at 4:06 PM, Mike Millet wrote: > > Today while I was visiting the gym I noticed that the eliptical machines > now had color touchscreen panels on them. The first thing I noticed was it > had an iPod dock so I could control my playlists by tapping the screen and > setting the song I wanted and listening through a headphone jack. But as I > was using it I noticed that the distance units could be set to kilometers > and the speed to kilometers per hour. I was originally confused because on > the screen it shows an imaginary track oval and you as a little dot running > along towards the finish line, but the finish line seemed to make no sense > in miles until I switched it to meters and discovered that the "track" was a > standard 400m oval marked off every 100m. > > Needless to say I was happy to have at least part of my workout fully > metric :). The second instance I noticed was Fox news was interviewing the > Boy Scouts who survived a tornado striking their camp earlier this week and > when one of the news anchors asked one of the boys how far away he thought > the tornado was from his position the boy replied that he thought it was > about 500 meters, and seemed quite comfortable using meters to describe > distance. > > It's nice to see a couple more instances of the USA's slow but inevitable > transition towards the SI. > > Mike > > > Dear Mike, > Thanks for these examples of progress toward the completion of metrication > in the USA. > > On the issue of the little spot on the running track could you share with > us some thoughts about your speed. > > I know that I walk slowly at about 80 metres per minute. > I can march at 90 metres per minute, and > I walk quite briskly at 100 metres per minute. > > Given that there metre markers on your screen are 100 metres apart, what > are the relative values for you, when you jog, and when you run? By the way, > when Michael Johnson broke the world record for 400 metres in 1999, he was > running at the equivalent of a bit over 555 metres per minute. > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin > > PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, > Geelong, Australia > Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 > > Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped > thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric > system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands > each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat > provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and > professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in > Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian > Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the > UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ > <http://www.metricationmatters.com/>for > more metrication information, contact Pat at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to get the free '*Metrication > matters*' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter/to > subscribe. > > -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?" (\__/) (='.'=)This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your (")_(")signature to help him gain world domination.
