What is the limit?

[beige_alert]

I always say I'm not really a runner. Sure, I do a little jogging now and then, since exercise is good for you and all. But it's not really my sport. I'm a cyclist, after all. So, sure, I'll strap a GPS to my wrist to keep track of distance and speed and heart rate and I'll enter the data into a spreadsheet and maybe I'll dress up like a colorblind superhero and run 10km in the rain on a Saturday morning, but, still, it's not like I'm really into it. I'm not one of those runners.

But then I realized that my last little run was just 6km short of a half marathon, which means I could do a half marathon for sure, no problem. Now, I know for sure that if you run a full marathon, you can't really say that you're not a runner, and you're just not really that into running. But a half marathon? Can you run a half marathon just for the hell of it and still claim to not really be into running?

Comments

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

You wrote a 10k-line AWK program? That makes you something though I'm not sure what. Though from time to time I end up writing tens of lines in it at work, which I never expected to happen. Here I thought I was a chemist...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I think the word is 'insane' *g*. It didn't start out that way, it just ... grew. A definite case of feaping creaturitis.

(Messrs. Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan commented in the AWK book about their puzzlement; they intended the language to be used for small scripts, the 10 lines or so you mention, and found people writing thousands of lines in it...)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

But it puts you in such distinguished company as Henry Spencer and his "Amazing Workable Formatter," the nroff clone written in AWK.

[aunty_marion]

AWKward. Probably. *g,d&r*