Sunday, November 3, 2013

This year's New York Marathon is getting underway as of this writing, last year's having been cancelled because of Sandy.  The Bachelor is still against last year's cancellation, because the Heir points out that if the official name of this year's marathon is The 2013 New York City Marathon, you cannot then call it The 2012 And 2013 New York City Marathons Rolled Into One, or The 2013 New York Marathon To Also Make Up For Lost Time For Last Year's Cancelled Marathon, because our time-rigid society just doesn't function that way.  The organizers of Run Anyway last year know this fact well, which is why they organized Run Anyway to begin with.  Maybe future Marathons should drop the year from its name officially, and only include it as an informal subtitle.  Otherwise, people like the Heir will be reminded, probably until 3013, that at least one Marathon during the Marathon's history didn't make it.

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