Finally, about a month later, I have time to think about how the Detroit Freepress Marathon went on October 18th, 2009. Final time: 4 hours, 7 minutes, and 11 seconds. Am I happy with this time? Hell yeah! I would have been happy with anything near 4 hours; truth be told, I was much more [...]
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—continued from previous post— I folded my Two Weeks shirt and put it back in my drawer, and at this point had thoroughly tainted all these people’s future accomplishment by assessing their behavior by a different standard. I had missed the essence of what they were doing: ironically, participating in one of the few cross-culturally [...]
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