Monday, June 13, 2005

Hey I Placed!



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I was in the back of the office this morning making coffee when the boss came in and announced and congratulated me for winning the division I competed in Saturday at the 5K! Needless to say, I was amazed by this announcement. I finished the race and hung round but did not hear anything about me winning anything. I placed a call to my buddy Kim, who informed me that I had actually placed third in the “assisted” i.e. power wheelchair division. I was still pretty shocked. So I have a ribbon coming cool. I get a image of this as soon as I can. My time was 33 minutes and some seconds. Still, this was with a power wheelchair—I felt guilty eating one of the oranges after the race. I felt these oranges were for the REAL racers, those who had provided actual human power for the race, whether pushing a chair, hand bike or walking or running. I just pushed a joystick in t

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