"The race is to steady turtles!" --
   Even if the race has hurdles?
 Even with its great longevity
   it'll never have lift or levity
   to finish before life runs out.

Hold off with race applications.
   Is racer your ideal vocation?
 I don't mean to be Sower of doubt,
   but think speed isn't what you're about,
   and that you'd make a fine doorstop.