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 …