Thursday, May 17, 2012

You are here: Olympic Stadium, Berlin



Second half-marathon, German capital. Put me in mind of seeing Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia films (1938 on the 1936 summer games)...undergrad? graduate school? I think it was at Harvard...I liked the pictures. And found the general message at the time not particularly propagandistic...I seem to recall frame after frame of German equestrians failing to clear a water obstacle. The effect was comic. But I don't really want to discuss her ideology. Suffice it to say I was there, I started running and 21.1 kilometers and two hours and 8 minutes later I was there again.


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