As a Tulsa resident, I’ve been wearing a face mask on the rare occasion I’ve gone to a store, but I was not wearing one for running outside. Instead, I would do my best to avoid runners and bikers by moving off of the trails when necessary to keep an …
As we all know, with the possible exception of Governor Kemp, the goal with covid-19 social distancing isn’t just to protect ourselves by avoiding infection. The virus can be transmitted by the asymptomatic, so we’re also trying to protect those around us because we don’t know if we’re actively infected. …
It’s hard to survive a trip through the endurance exercise corner of the Internet without stumbling onto cautionary tales of immune system suppression following a particularly hard or long workout. The actual studies behind those cautionary tales are a bit more nuanced and leave all of us open to the influence of the anecdotal experiences of headline-driven media and click-driven bloggers. Fortunately, you are reading neither the former nor the latter as a quick perusal of this blog’s analytics shows that I am clearly not a click…driven…blogger…
Although I normally advocate all of us SubdueTheSloth by running, cycling, lifting, and undertaking generally any form of physically beneficial activity, covid-19 brings with it a unique set of circumstances that we all have to find our own way to navigate. Each activity brings with it a combination of risk …
Well, it happened again. I lost another year. I didn’t spend the year in a coma or locked up in jail, but I definitely don’t feel like I’ve been “present,” for lack of a better term. Prior to embarking on my journey from sick and out-of-shape to healthy over 5 …
