The King of Controversy

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Location:

Provo,UT,United States

Member Since:

Jun 20, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Track:

400 - 54.87 (Region 9 Championships 2015)

800 - 2:05 (Region 9 Championships 2015)

1600 - 4:39  (Desert Hills Invite 2015)


Cross Country:

 2 Mile - 10:20 (Little Valley 2 Miler 2014)

3 Mile - 16:00 (Woodbridge Classic 2014)

5k - 16:45 (Nike Southwest 2014)


Road Races:

Half Marathon - 1:20:56 (Dogtown Half 2015)


PVXC Team Captain 2014

PV Track Captain 2015

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals TBD

Long-Term Running Goals:

Attain the Best Running Form and Legs

Goals TBD

Personal:

Ran for Pine View High School from 2012 to 2015. Now I attend BYU but don’t run for them. I am the King of Controversy.

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Bare Foot Lifetime Miles: 161.50
Saucony Virrata Blue Lifetime Miles: 347.70
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Total Distance
4.00

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. I have had a bit of a rough week. I’ve been exhausted so I haven’t been getting up early enough to run before work and then I have come home and fallen asleep almost right away so no runs for a few days. I finally got up this morning and got one in. It felt good. 

 

2nd Controversy of the Week - Well to make up for my poor running week, here’s another controversy. Stop Signs. Why does America have so many stop signs? No one actually stops fully anyways so they are pointless. In Finland, they use Yield signs instead of Stop signs and it works really well. It’s basically the same as a rolling stop that most people do on stop signs here.

Saucony Mirage 3 Miles: 4.00
Comments
From Eugene on Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 16:47:39 from 107.219.99.239

I always stop at stop signs, and I’ve never gotten a ticket, been pulled over, or hit another car or stationary object. I think in theory they’re good, and I think without them the roads would be much more dangerous without implementing something like yield signs. But if people treat stop signs like yield signs, what will those same people treat yield signs like if that’s all there are?

Finland also has a little over 5 million people in it’s populace, if crash quantities are the only thing being compared. Granted they’re much smaller than us, but we have approx 108 people per square mile to their 42.

From Jason D on Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 19:12:56 from 73.144.91.168

You should try driving in Philadelphia. Actually, don't; you are young and have a long life ahead of you. In Philadelphia, people really don't stop a stop signs, even when to all appearances they cannot fully see the intersection. You would be amazed how narrow the streets are.

You have extremely wide and visible roads in St. George, at least around Dixie High School (I just walked around a little).

Perhaps the issue is that people don't pay much attention to yield signs and if they at least yield at stop signs we are doing okay?

From Holt on Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 21:22:21 from 69.63.222.227

Just honk and go.

From allie on Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:13:56 from 172.4.198.186

i agree -- yield signs and roundabouts!

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