IT WAS A GREAT VICTORY

Today is the San Francisco Marathon. Sorry, I am not participating. The whole concept of running twenty six miles, even without bronze armour, is out of the question. And as usual Kenyans will be in the lead, serious people will claim their own participation certificates, and zanies will trot along gamely for part of the route before deciding that they've done their bit, Athens has already won, no point in making it all the way in any decent time at all, and, just maybe, the idea of participating in an epic endurance challenge in which the first ever participant ended up dying dramatically is rather ridiculous.

But heck, kudos to all the stallwarts who complete the course.

Remember that we also have fun things to do here.

Bars! We've got a tonne of bars!

Rehydrate!


Just like our other famous running event it's allegedly great fun and there are many visitors to our fine city. Plus people won't stop talking about it. Those are conversations in which I will gladly not participate, as all sporting events leave me cold. Yes yes, stellar achievement, great that you did it, can we please go back to discussing Nietsche and Kant?

The only Marathon that I ever took part in was a shoot-em-up in a space ship taken over by aliens. Many times! Still remember it fondly. The engineering department was addicted to it. Even the boss of the company.


Imagine a whole bunch of people on the spectrum actually being on the same page at the same time. Feelings of gemütlichkeit and camaraderie among the profoundly un-social.
Like you had never seen before. Triumph! Success!


It's surprising that not more of them were tea-drinking pipesmokers with book collections.
I would've thought that would have been the natural and logical fall-back escape from the clamouring throngs. But no. That might have required too much of a leap.
Or possibly been too competitive.



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