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On a Friday night in October of 2018, I took a bus from New York City down to Washington D.C. to run the Baltimore Marathon the following morning. As an obsessively frugal 20-something, I had elected the cheapest bus line possible. The dubious (now defunct) brand allowed riders to purchase a ticket for $20 cash from a handler outside Penn Station, operated largely without air conditioning, and on one occasion (yes, I was a repeat customer) dumped us all at a rest stop for an hour while our driver took a nap.
Of the many luxuries not afforded to passengers was the loading and unloading of baggage, so I found myself crawling around in the bus’s humid cargo hold in downtown D.C. trying to excavate my suitcase when we arrived. After a minute or two of shoving strangers’ bags out onto the street, I finally located my own and with one mighty yank, dragged it from underneath a pile of luggage. More focused on escaping the bus than paying attention to my surro
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I Ran 10k a Day For 36 Days. Here’s What I Learned
At the end of the day, it’s testing the limits of my human capacity.
For the past 36 days, I have run at least 10k a day as part of a fitness challenge to do the
One Punch Man challenge. The challenge includes running 10k every day, doing 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 100 push-ups. The latter three are much more challenging to me than the run on some days, but the squats, push-ups, and sit-ups are all getting a lot easier. As someone who has run competitively through high school and college, the 10k a day was only a slight bump from the training I was already doing, and on some days, I run much more than 10k depending on what I feel like doing in my training.
Races Going Virtual for a Second Year Due to COVID-19
Many events have recently announced they’re canceling in-person registration for the spring. MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images
For the second year in a row, there will be no in-person Oakland Marathon. No runners lining up for the Pittsburgh Marathon. No Eugene marathoners crossing the finish line at Hayward Field. Nor Brooklyn Half Marathon finishers on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
If news from the road racing industry in February 2021 is starting to feel redundant, that’s because a similar spate of cancellations was announced 11 months ago, when the pandemic first hit.