A reindeer can reach a top speed of about 32 miles/hour (51 km/hour). The circumference of the earth at the equator is 40,075 km. My calculator tells me that it will take Rudy 785 hours to circle the globe, assuming a constant top speed and the ability to run on water. That’s over a month (32 days and a bit) to complete the full loop. Too bad for the kids who don’t live along the equator. The twelve days of Christmas suddenly seem woefully inadequate.
Lucky for us reindeer can fly.
Title Reference: Chuck Berry – Run Rudolph Run. B-side to Merry Christmas Baby. 1958.
I’m betting they cut the corners and make it a short course. They’re shifty critters, them reindeer. Thrown in Perpetuem in place of water, and I think they can pull it off. Except, of course, that they’ll be barfing Perpetuem over most of the gifts.
Nevermind the Perpetuem, I’m advocating for drug testing. And gender testing. That magic dust is laced with steriods.
One of the grannies in the photo might get gored by the reindeer… ravenous, rabid reindeer.
A carnivourous reindeer, now that run me to a 5K PB.