Congratulations Dad!

I don’t know if many of you know or care, but Superman recently renounced his US citizenship. Action Comics’ issue #900 has Superman claiming the world is too small and too connected to go on representing a single country. Truth be told I think he is afraid that he no longer is the only game in town. Today my dad finished a marathon in Maine with a time of four hours and eleven minutes. Finishing or even training for a marathon is impressive in itself, but my dad isn’t some young buck college kid with few responsibilities that can spend his time training. Currently he runs a computer engineering company by day and takes history courses by night in the hopes of obtaining a masters degree. What’s more, he is an avid golfer who plays a painful to watch 18 holes about every weekend. If you can figure out where he fits in time to train for a marathon I would like to hear. Whether he finished today or not, I could not have been more proud. It is almost sad that he finished so quickly. Four hours and eleven minutes is an inconsequently small amount of time that many of us have frittered away at a bar, but today, for my dad it represented months of patient and steady training.