Tomorrow is a leap day...

I knew a girl who was a couple of years older than me at school; she was born on February 29th. She was fond of asking people how old they thought she was. When they guessed at 16, she'd correct them and say that she was 4. How we'd laugh... It soon lost it's appeal.

Tomorrow is February 29th or leap day, as it is sometimes known. Leap day is an additional day inserted into the calendar to correct the 6 hours not counted each year as the earth orbits the sun every 365.25 days.

Persons born on February 29th are sometimes known as leaplings. In non leap years, depending on the law, they either mark their birthday on February 28th or March 1st. Notable people born on February 29th include: Gioachino Rossini, Jimmy Dorsey and Dinah Shore. James Milne Wilson, the Premier of Tasmania from 1869 to 1872, was both born and died on February 29th.

BBC Radio 4's PM programme is asking its listeners to take a leap this year by thinking of February 29th as a free day and to mark it by doing something different.

On PM we've been highlighting listeners' planned leaps every night: a man debilitated by depression and almost unable to leave the house who hopes to take the bus to Swansea, a pensioner who's getting her first tattoo, a man who's been spurred on to finish his first symphony and many more.

It's an interesting way of looking at this leap day. What are you going to do?

Today's run at 17:49
Distance	4.26 km	Time	23:11
Pace	5:26 min/km	Cadence	81 spm
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