GOP Debate 2015: A Few Things You Could Have Done With Those 3 Hours

The second Republican debate Wednesday was a three-hour marathon that left the 11 candidates exhausted. Donald Trump appeared tired while commenting on the length of the debate in a post-event interview with CNN. Some viewers, overwhelmed at the end of the three hours, may have realized they could have spent their time better. Here are just a few things you can do in three hours.

Fly From New York to Miami

Flights from the two major NYC airports have been clocked at just over three hours. Flights from LaGuardia Airport -- based on a search on Expedia -- range from three hours and seven minutes to three hours and 20 minutes. Flights from John F. Kennedy International Airport are around three hours and 10 minutes. If flying is not your thing, a trip on Amtrak's Acela Express from New York City's Penn Station to Washington, D.C., is two hours, 53 minutes.

Read A Classic Novel

Maybe a flight is out of the question, but you could escape through the power of literature. The average reading speed of an adult was clocked around 300 words per minute, according to Forbes based on a Staples-sponsored speed-reading test. That means 54,000 words could have been read during the GOP debate. Even if you took a 1,500-word break -- five minutes -- every hour, there are plenty of options. There's George Orwell's "Animal Farm," at just 29,966 words, or Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" (47,192 words) or Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" (46,573 words).

If you wanted to catch up on the Shakespeare you didn't read in high school English, there are many options. In fact, you could read multiple plays by the Bard in three hours. His longest is "Hamlet," at 30,557 words, while the shortest is "The Comedy of Errors," with 14,701 words, according to George Mason University's OpenSource Shakespeare project. You could read "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (16,511 words), "Macbeth" (17,121 words) and "King John" (20,772 words) to complete a comedy-tragedy-history trifecta.

Run A Half Marathon

Instead of watching the debate, why not go for a nice run? The median time for a half marathon finisher in 2014 was 2:02:55 for males and 2:21:22 for females, according to Running USA's annual report.