Chasing glory

I have a Strava KOM that was set last year on a road bike. Two days ago I equaled the time on a XC mountain bike. Sadly Strava does not distinguish between bike types. However, I am heartened to see my condition is improving and my strength allowed me to hoist a 7kg heavier bike up a hill at the same speed.

What I wish that would appear on my rides is more riders. When people are riding they are not doing damage to their fellow beings either by some bullshit job or enforcing some gruesome policy.

Enough people have caught COVID. Those will probably catch it again and get previously uninfected persons to join their number. Wouldn’t it be simpler to mandate filtered air in public spaces and require N95 respirators indoors for as long an interval as it takes to severely reduce transmission? My partially informed guess is that there will be an enormous drop in life expectancy due to allowing this virus to exist and mutate unencumbered.

Of course if our wretched foreign policy manages to kick off WW III, then there will be a host of new medical issues to confront in addition to COVID.

Join me in refusing to continue to fuck people over. Take a ride, run or walk or nap for all of our collective health!