Tanner Garrity

The faucet in my kitchen sink loves to drool all over itself. If I'm not careful when shifting the handle back and forth, hosing down a pan, I'll soon have a reservoir on the sink basin. The water laps against our cutting boards and adds to the stains on our laminate countertop. It drives me absolutely fucking crazy.

Jocelyn Newman runs four to six times per week. She's finished four marathons , reckons she's logged more than 15 half-marathons and averages more than 80 miles a month. You'd expect her to be a Strava or Nike Run Club darling, with kudos and milestones and all sorts of online support in kind. Only, Newman doesn't believe in mapping runs, neither with a GPS watch nor a smartphone. When she completes a four-miler, she has nothing to upload and no app to upload to. It's just done.

Years ago, we asked a fitness expert named Michael Matthews, author of Muscle for Life , for his take on the recommended “normal” resting heart rate range for an adult American male, which is 60 to 100 beats per minute. He was unimpressed.

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I recently finished reading Michael Kimmelman's , a freewheeling tome in which the longtime architecture critic meets with urban planners, developers, historians and designers for walks around New York City neighborhoods. It was a pandemic project , and the interviews naturally reflect that, but Kimmelman and guests offer decades of context, timely critique and hopeful prognostications for each area they amble through, from Jackson Heights to Rockefeller Center.

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Down the Jersey Shore as a kid, I used to marvel at older guys who'd casually swim just beyond the break. While my brother and I were skipping a Waboba, they'd move north or south, parallel to the shoreline, untroubled by rip currents and unfazed by the rigors of open-water swimming.

Time confetti sounds fun, like the sort of thing we should want more of. But the time-use research term, coined by the author Brigid Schulte , refers to our collective tendency to “shred” time into pieces. Give us an hour, and we'll put it through the Fargo wood chipper — two minutes to answer this email, three to scroll through this X spat, five to finish reading this article, etc.

It's common for New Yorkers to refer to the first Sunday in November as “one of the best days of the year.” That's the day the New York City Marathon comes to town. The weather's generally pretty good, the race brings all its yearly traditions and donations (fundraising around $50 million), and for hours on end, adults stand on street corners to cheer on friends and strangers alike.

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