7 in a row

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            I cannot express how strange this is.  Absolutely eerie.  How could a person finish a 60-second sprint in a time that varies less than 2% each day?  Today, again, I finished between 60 and 61 seconds.  If a person set his watch by the amount of time it takes me to run this sprint,

they would be doing very well.  Someone asked me once to tell them the distance of this sprint.  I said it doesn’t matter because I am competing against myself—and doing very well.  The other reason I don’t say the distance is because I truly don’t know.  I have two running apps on my iPod: a. neither one is accurate  b. when I walk the distance after the run, the distance does not register. 

            I wrote the above paragraph yesterday and didn’t get to putting it on the web until now.  I ran today and AGAIN I finished between 60 and 61 seconds. 

Of the last 18 times I have run this sprint, I have finished between 60 and 61 seconds 13 times.  Including the last 7 IN A ROW.  How could this happen?  Am I somehow manipulating the results?  Do I run in a certain way that I calculate when I will finish?  IMPOSSIBLE!  How could I?  It would be too difficult to so precisely finish.

date time 1 30-May 1:00.15 x 2 28-May 1:00.39 x 3 26-May 1:00.09 x 4 19-May 1:00.03 x 5 13-May 1:00.28 x 6 11-May 1:00.12 x 7 07-May 1:00.46 x 8 06-May 1:02.41 9 05-May 59.20 10 04-May 1:00.14 x 11 29-Apr 1:00.08 x 12 28-Apr 59.93 13 27-Apr 1:00.24 x 14 25-Apr 1:00.54 x 15 21-Apr 1:01.40 16 15-Apr 59.51 17 14-Apr 1:00.57 x 18 11-Apr 1:00.51 x

After the run, I wanted to see that exact distance.  I thought I might need to jog instead of run.  The distance registered was still 0.  I’m thinking now that the program takes a read of the position of the iPod at set intervals. The interval must be longer than 60 seconds…or even 90 seconds because that is how long it took me to jog the thing.