The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying 'Hey how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well he finished fifth or sixth'.
What breadth what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades all the fences within which she is held captive!