The coronavirus, aka Covid-19, has wreaked havoc on the globe. It’s a pandemic and it’s a major stress on people, places, markets, institutions, and just about every facet of life as we know it. It is not a hoax. It is not going away anytime soon. But we do our best, united, standing together… albeit 6 feet apart from one another.<\/p>\n
On a selfishly personal note, separate from the financial and emotional toll, the covid quarantine has disrupted a number of my marathons I had planned this Spring (and may impact Summer, Fall, and Winter but let’s keep our fingers crossed and our hopes alive… with a dose of reality and acknowledgment that wishing doesn’t make it so… so let’s put our faith in science, my preferred solution anyway).<\/p>\n
Today is the first race on my calendar that has been cancelled outright. I feel for the race organizers as they’re being hit from all sides — from local governments, from vendors looking for payments on services that had been prebooked (shirts, medals, supplies, venue permits), to finally runners who paid to register.<\/p>\n
In the immortal words of Forrest Gump — it happens.<\/p>\n