O’Malley comes of age…

There’s one race we all lose. The race against entropy.

Montgomery County’s own Martin O’Malley has learned that the hard way, suffering stress fractures to his right shin while running on a treadmill.

I’ve always known Martin to be the “nice boy” who in his youth hung around his father’s campaigns or performed at local Irish pubs. He carries on the Irish Catholic tradition that has permeated county and state politics for so many years. And he certainly married well.

Most of us come to grips with our body’s limitations at around our early 40s. It is a sobering experience, as it should be. That’s the age we learn that when we push our bodies, our bodies to push back, hard.

I wish him well on his recovery…