On Sunday, nearly 60,000 runners will pour over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and into the streets of New York. Most of them won’t win anything. A huge chunk of them have never run a marathon before, and plenty of them are…
I know a guy — let’s call him Dan — who trains five mornings a week at a functional fitness gym, the kind with barbells, pull-up rigs, and a whiteboard full of workouts with girls’ names. He looks the part.…
I fell for the gummy version of everything first. Vitamin D gummies, magnesium gummies, the ones that taste like dessert and sit next to my keys so I actually remember them. So when creatine gummies started showing up all over…
A few weeks ago, a teammate of mine showed up to our Saturday morning run sniffling, apologised, and then said something I have heard a dozen times since: It is just a cold, do not worry. By Tuesday, three of…
I once watched a teammate swallow, wince, and then announce he was fine to play. His throat looked like it had been sandpapered from the inside, he had a fever, and he’d barely slept — but because he could still…
Last winter, a friend of mine texted our whole running group the same message nobody wants to get: “I’ve got pneumonia. Sorry, I was coughing all through Saturday’s run.” That message made me ask: is pneumonia contagious? Within minutes, the…
Is bronchitis contagious? Last month, a teammate of mine turned up to training with a cough he’d already had for two weeks. Don’t worry, he said, grinning between coughs, I’m not contagious anymore. It’s just the cough that’s left. Half…
I’ll be honest with you — I used to feel guilty about my own training schedule. Some weeks, work swallowed Monday through Friday whole, and the only sessions I managed were two sweaty ones on the weekend. Every Monday, the…
Last month I watched a teammate spend $180 on a “lymphatic drainage reset” at a recovery spa. Ninety minutes later she walked out glowing — face less puffy, legs looking leaner. At the next morning’s track session? Sore anyway. Same…
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: getting the all-clear at your checkup might be exactly why nobody’s spotting the real problem. Picture this. You go in for your annual visit, the nurse wraps the cuff around your arm,…