The thing with my frustration with Covid restrictions is that it gets stoked every day, often multiple times a day. For example, today I received an e-mail with a bunch of Covid nonsense in it, including the following gem: Additionally, as per our Covid protocols, valentines must be brought in on Friday, February 11th to quarantine…
The Seattle Times sometimes includes articles from the Washington Post. You have to check the byline to tell, and usually I don’t, but two paragraphs in, it’s almost always obvious. Honestly, the Washington Post makes the Stranger and Fox seem unbiased by comparison. Today, there’s a particularly obnoxious article about the long overdue end to…
After Monday’s Peloton workout – whole body strength – I seriously had more quad pain than after the marathon. In total, I had more pain after the marathon, but that was largely due to my hip injury, blisters, etc. In terms of purely muscle pain, the Peloton workout was worse. It’s now Thursday, and only…
The thing about strength for running is that if you do it right, nothing happens. If you do it wrong or not enough, you’re injured. I was feeling somewhat smug about my strength and stretching routine going into the marathon, since I’d managed to work up to 50 miles per week relatively quickly without any…
Most of Southwest and Central Virginia will be mask mandate free by Valentine’s Day. The notable exceptions are Roanoke City (but not the surrounding county, where I am from) and Montgomery County, where Virginia Tech is. These are also the only places in the area run by Republicans. Basically, in order to ditch the masks,…
Is this a joke? The United States has not yet reached a national peak of the omicron variant, the nation’s top doctor said, urging caution even as the explosion of cases has started to plateau in some areas. “We shouldn’t expect a national peak in the next coming days — the next few weeks will…
