WaPo Lawmaker Rankings

The Washington Post has ranked the athletic feats of various lawmakers according to a “panel of experts.” Personally, I think Bart Gordon’s 3 mile run in 16:59 (5:40/mile) at age 46 should rank higher than Jean Schmidt’s 3:49:05 marathon at age 54. And both of those performances should be ranked much higher than Kyrsten Sinema’s 12:59:57 Ironman at age 42.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/...m_term=.57de4ae71a2e

Agreed, Sinema really should be on the “High but not next level” meaning the experts probably have the same understanding of an Ironman as my coworkers. i.e. 24 miles of swimming, cycling the tour de france and then running a 2:05 marathon.

If they included Sinema’s recent opponent who did I think around 11 hours in Kona in the early 90s, I would have voted her into the top group.

Aside from that, I am impressed with Neil bench pressing 272 at 72. Not very impressed with those times for the JFK 50 milers (10+ hours is certainly not “speedy”) not that I could do faster but my wife did 9:18 on poor training and a hip injury.