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While I understand the all inclusive argument of opening the marathon to slower runners and walkers, and encourage them to race, the problem I have with a time slower than 6 hours is that you are encouraging people who haven't even trained for this distance into the marathon. The result is what you see in Detroit with 3 runners dead. The 6 hour sutoff time serves to ask each runner the question, "am I fit enough to finish the race under that time?"
In Ironman, there is a hard 17 hour cutoff, and because of that I haven't seen a death there that was attributed to poor health.
Again, as a coach, I encourage everyone to try for a marathon. But everyone needs to do the proper training first before undertaking this feat. :-)
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Here's a problem I have with the Reb Moshe example. If Moshe knew that his inordinate kindness was diluting his letters of recommendation, then he knew he wasn't able to really achieve what he set out to do.
To give another example: I have a three cars to give away to charity. I decide to make 50 keys so that I can spread joy to a greater number of people. Emet? There are only 3 cars. Chesed? I can make a whole bunch of people happy.
If he knew his recommendations weren't helping, he should have cut back on writing so many so he could bring ACTUAL joy.
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