The important difference between velociraptors and the t-rex

A couple of days ago I was out running with Jukka. We ran for approximately 40 days and 40 nights before we came to a kind of adventure playground. There was some sort of torture device which Jukka pointed to and informed me was for doing chinups. He asked me if I can do chinups. I looked at him to check if he was serious. He was.

I'd thought it was obvious from the start how little upper body strength I have. If I were to think of something that had a similar ratio of upper to lower body strength as me, it would be a tyrannosaurus rex. If you imagine a tyrannosaurus rex doing chinups, that's pretty much how I would look doing chinups. It's okay to imagine sounds. They're probably accurate.

Evidently this was not a good enough explanation. Despite acting out tyrannosaurus rex-like behaviour (you're welcome, fellow joggers of Pirkkola) Jukka confused my performance with a velociraptor. No, I said. Velociraptors run like this.

Whereas I run like this:

For future reference, here is a list of things I do not resemble while undertaking sport:

Here is a list of things I do resemble while undertaking sport:

and finally this sloth (yes, this particular one):


I have to say I've found running rewarding, however. It's not very often you grow one of these of such magnificent dimensions:
I popped it since taking the photo. It said ppptthhth.