Miami Mayor and Presidential Candidate Dragged for Tweet Bragging About His 5K Race Time: 6th Out of 16?

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Miami Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez needs potential voters to know that he’s bodily match for the job, so he’s bragging about his 5k run time. Different runners aren’t that impressed.

Suarez, who introduced his run with a video of him actually working, is an avid runner, almost certainly way better at working than overseas policy. So when he placed 6th in a 5k recently, he was desirous to share his physical prowess on social media:

Name every other presidential candidate who can position sixth in a 5k with a 24 and a half minute run time.

Go.

As anyone who doesn’t experience operating and has never completed a 5k because I’d by no means volunteer for this kind of thing, I grew to become to math to find out if this can be a just right time. A 5k is about three.1 miles, this means that Suarez ran about an 8ish-minute mile. It’s not at all dangerous. It’s in regards to the moderate for somebody who will not be a beginner, however no longer truly an professional, also taking into account age, common well being, and so forth. And depending on how many people ran on this 5k, sixth position will not be too unhealthy at all.

However political reporter Aaron Blake of The Washington Put up came upon the context for this “brag” with the aid of Suarez and found out it’s now not all that so much to brag about:

As somebody who runs round an eight-minute mile, I used to be like, “That’s excellent sufficient for sixth place!?”

Turns out it was sixth *in his age group.*

Out of sixteen people.

As somebody who runs around an 8-minute mile, I used to be like, “That’s just right enough for 6th location!?”

Seems it was 6th *in his age crew.*

Out of 16 people.https://t.co/VdI7bfGBDW https://t.co/ah2dhZPEa2

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 4, 2023

Ah. Smartly, that’s less impressive. And Twitter was once, naturally, no longer impressed with many pointing out that 1. this is no longer an impressive run time, 2. former Democratic presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg each cleared that time, and three. no one cares how fast their presidential candidates can run.

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