Turing as a Runner (1999)
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This made me laugh a little. I guess at the Olympic level it "does not look so great", but that's a fantastic time: in the last SF marathon he would have gotten 20th place out of 5000. I had no idea he was such a good runner.
At the same time, there are a lot more runners today and most of them are a lot slower than in the 1980s running boom. You can look at winning times in almost any local race between the 80s and today and those 80s runners would easily trounce today's winners.
So Turing could probably win strategically picked small local marathons here and there, but at Boston he would've done better in his time than today.
Back in the 1820s, eight days of examinations, five and a half hours a day, roughly 25% "pass rate" (i.e. 25% achieved wrangler status).