Life After Diets
The Year Running Was Canceled
Training for and running long-distance races like half marathons, marathons, and ultra-marathons, is inherently challenging. It can be stressful, expensive, frustrating, and painful. Shin splints, missing toenails, sore muscles, and smelly workout gear are just part of the deal.
But, as runners, we sign up for races, pay high entry fees, and buy running shoes and special socks and contraptions for carrying water and fuel because we love it. Not because we might win (few ever do). Not because of the race photos we’ll post on Instagram (have you actually seen what runners look like in those photos?). Not even for bragging rights (though that certainly doesn’t hurt). No, we love it. There’s no other way you could reasonably get through weeks of long, frequently lonely, often uncomfortable training runs. You have to love it or you will not succeed.
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, now named Covid-19, began in December in Wuhan, China, containment strategies have varied widely by country. We’re still in the early days of this pandemic, particularly in the United States, but we’re already seeing impacts on things many of us might not have expected. Local stores are sporting shelves emptied of toilet paper and canned goods. Schools are canceling classes. Employees are being urged to work from home if they can.
