And next time you feel a twinge of cognitive dissonance, just dismiss it as stupid.

Being anti-mandate, especially wrt kids’ super-immune systems, is not the same thing as being anti-vax. btw: Did you know that a recent study in Lancet found that the vaxxed spread the virus just as much as the unvaxxed? Quite similar to how getting the seasonal flu vaccine doesn’t stop the spread either (they’re both…

Sorry, but that “stop the spread” talking point is DEAD. A recent year-long study in Lancet — https://fortune.com/2021/10/28/vaccinated-people-can-also-spread-the-delta-variant-a-yearlong-uk-study-shows/ — found that the vaccinated spread the virus just as much as the unvaxxed, which makes mandates look even more…

I disagree that marathon training is a giant time suck, especially when compared to all the other things we happily waste our time doing that could instead be spent running.

Heart problems have ALSO been reported from to Pfizer’s vaccine (since they’re both based on mRNA), especially in little boys. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html Not a worthwhile risk; smarter to wait for more studies to PROVE that the vaccine does more good than harm in…

No, I won’t stop. And I’m not an “anti-vaxer” feeding on “non-authoritative misinformation” either. Far from it. The science & statistics just doesn’t support the need to mass-vax our kids, despite what the mass media pro-bigpharma drumbeat is telling you.

I’m double-vaxed, as are my 80-year-old in-laws, but my healthy kid will NOT be getting vaxed unless it’s mandated for school in NY. The risk of severe COVID in kids is NEGLIGIBLE, and of the tiny number who’ve died, they had leukemia and other problems. Also, studies last month found that kids are 6 times more likely…

And that editorial is wrong. A University of California study found that kids are up to SIX TIMES more likely to end up in the hospital from vax-related myocarditis than from COVID itself. https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/sep/20/doubts-raised-over-preprint-study-regarding-myocar/

Also, pro tip: Only wear your OLD crappy RX sunglasses to the beach. And don’t wear ‘em in the ocean without a safety strap, unless you want the 1st wave to knock ‘em off your face.

Beer’s got carbs, is the excuse. But there’s better non-liver-killing ways to hydrate + fuel your muscles after a run, IMO.

You can thank Joe Biden for that. And no surprise that cancelling student debt was yet another broken promise.

Let’s Go Brandon!

I finally upgraded our dumb scale to a cheap bluetooth “smart scale” from Wyze about a year ago. Opted for the slightly-more-cumbersome Bluetooth instead of WiFi in order to get much longer battery life and because of all the issues I read about the more expensive WiFi versions having. The thing’s that cumbersome…

Most banking apps now let you take a photo of the front & back of checks to e-deposit it. No need to visit a bank.

Sure, “nothing new on race day,” except possibly your entire self-sufficient hydration & fueling routine, since a lot of races have banned hydration belts, packs & vests. The NYC marathon banned them after the Boston bombing for “security” theater reasons. Security my ass.

Maybe NYC’s an anti-social outlier, but just about all the passing I’ve done or have witnessed happens in silence, UNLESS it’s a bike doing the passing thru a tight squeeze. Also, just about everyone’s wearing tiny wireless earbuds now, and if they aren’t you can’t tell until it’s too late, so why bother announcing…

So, uh, for guys... will the bioimpedance be thrown off depending on our how our crotch junk is hanging that morning? The lower your balls hang, then the shorter the electrical path. Even fatter people with thighs touching would throw this reading way off depending on how you’re standing at the time. I don’t recall…

FREE** (** with expensive insurance)

I’ve had barely noticeable shin splints ever since I started running in earnest at the beginning of the year, ramping up mileage from 0, to 5k, 10k, and now Half Marathon by a slow 10% per week. Also running in barefoot shoes (for strong feet), and only on concrete, but it seems I’ve avoided the worst of it for now.

There was a time in my life when the most cardio I got (besides walking) was intense SNOW SHOVELING a few times per year. Shame shame shame. Excellent VO2Max for my age group now, though.