In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I learned of the Olympic sport of speed walking or race walking. It's a real Olympic sport! The athletes have such interesting form, check out this
video. I found out that I have this "gift" of speedwalking a few years ago and have beat quite a few people (men included). I even beat 6'-3" Dave when I was pregnant.
As an Olympic sport, the distance is 20 km (12.4 miles) so there's no way I could do that. I only like to race people in length measurements of feet - not even yards. So if you're ever up for 100 feet speed walking race, give me a call. If the Olympic committee decides to add an 100 feet race (0.03 km / 0.02 miles), we'll see you in Rio!!
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