Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 09, 2015

Who knows? In 10 weeks, they may have all the snow plowed away.

Hope you brought your sneakers, Frazz. Miss Plainwell is ready to run.

Well now, Fraz (and Jef), the news is in:

"Out of a pool of about 5,000 healthy Danish adults, Marott and his colleagues followed nearly 1,100 healthy joggers and 413 sedentary people for more than 12 years. The joggers noted their hours and frequency of jogging, and their perception of their pace.

The strenuous joggers, the investigators found, were as likely to die during that time period as the sedentary non-joggers. Light joggers and moderate joggers fared better, in that order, Marott’s team found." – HealthDay

Only a small amount of schadenfreude; I used to love to run.

I’m not a runner, but I got the reference just fine, and would have guessed it even if I didn’t know the person ran. Still, its true, in America only a few sports are really well known!

Today’s BC strip shows it’s easier to tell when somebody isn’t into crossfit: http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2015/02/09

New England weather suffers from multiple personality disorder. Boston Marathon day in April 2012 hit 87 degrees, and yet it can snow in any month with an “R”. (It’s pronounced “AH”.)

I generally really like this comic, but the pretentiousness about fitness stuff has been taking over lately…

I am NOT athletic, never have been (asthmatic since 1953). A High School Gym teacher wanted to know my favorite sport. I told him “girl watching”.He said, “No, an Active sport.”I said “Girl chasing.”He got all bent out of shape.

Not everyone knows every jargon term from everything. It’s perfectly legitimate to ask for clarification on what is meant by “Boston.” I live on the West Coast, so I don’t always understand terms used on the East Coast, so I’m used to this.

DOSQueen: But you can nee-ah Hahvahd Yahd and now even visit Cuber.

The BBC carried a story last week about a prestigious medical organization (American College of Cardiologists, or something like that) concluding that people who run more than four hours a week are no healthier than people who don’t run at all. There is benefit in moderation, though. (Shrug) It’s a study. It contradicts some other studies and a lot of “conventional whizdumb.” Might turn out to be true, might not. Tune in for the next study.

Meanwhile, regarding Bahstan… you know, the law of Conservation of Consonants decrees that those "R"s that get dropped in Boston must turn up somewhere. That “somewhere” is Indiana, where they “warsh” the car. Nature has this way of balancing things out…

European model shows a monster storm coming. Worse that we have had so far. Je suis Buffalo!!!!!

Plenty of grumpy runners around