The effort one takes to achieve a goal lasts longer than the feeling that one has achieved it. But it is that sense of achievement which leads us to the next effort.
Actually, there is, as every marathoner knows, an enormous difference between walking at all normally and walking the week following your first marathon, or any marathon. Did the Apollo astronauts have to go down stairs backward? Did they make noises like old people when they had to get into or out of a chair?? Did the wonder if they’d ever be able to get on a bike again? Did they, metabolisms still afire, actually debate whether it was worth the walk to the refrigerator? Did they gaze in envy upon those aluminum walkers with the tennis balls on the aft legs?
Probably not, and that’s why they had to have ticker tape parades to remind them that they’d just done something pretty epic.
Ned Snipes over 4 years ago
Guess Jef meant VI instead of IX, or is the S missing from the balloon?
Cozmik Cowboy over 4 years ago
Last panel perfectly highlights the mindset of the silly “26.2” sticker twits.
And I just had a thought – is this why Pastis’s holier-than-thou cyclist is “Jef” instead of “Jeff”?
lagoulou over 4 years ago
Luv the graphics here!
llong65 over 4 years ago
in first panel “s” is missing from frame and i wondered why use roman IX ?
sandpiper over 4 years ago
The effort one takes to achieve a goal lasts longer than the feeling that one has achieved it. But it is that sense of achievement which leads us to the next effort.
pumaman over 4 years ago
At least with a marathon you can do another one in a few months. Visiting the moon not so much.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
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Actually, there is, as every marathoner knows, an enormous difference between walking at all normally and walking the week following your first marathon, or any marathon. Did the Apollo astronauts have to go down stairs backward? Did they make noises like old people when they had to get into or out of a chair?? Did the wonder if they’d ever be able to get on a bike again? Did they, metabolisms still afire, actually debate whether it was worth the walk to the refrigerator? Did they gaze in envy upon those aluminum walkers with the tennis balls on the aft legs?
Probably not, and that’s why they had to have ticker tape parades to remind them that they’d just done something pretty epic.
rgcviper over 4 years ago
Such cool artwork here, with the moon and the shadows. Great stuff.