The Nerdy Runner

I was running in the SFH yesterday and on my second lap they closed the West Annex, so instead of 5 laps to a mile I had to do 7 laps per mile. But I had already run 2 of the 5 laps. So I did the calculation in my head to determine precisely how many laps I would need to do on the small track to make my two miles.

1/7 = 0.142... (I only calculated it out to three decimal places, have you ever tried to do long division in your head while running?)

2/5 = 0.4

3/7 = 0.426

So I switched from already having run 2 laps (in fifths) to 3 laps (in sevenths), and added a partial lap to make up for the missing 0.026 miles.

Unfortunately during that time my iPod didn't play "White and Nerdy", but that would have been very appropriate.