Educated people realize that it’s good to have hobbies that benefit your health. Running, swimming, biking, and some lifting. Educated people are more likely to be in the top 10% of earners.
Yes, the higher income group is more likely to travel across the country for a marathon. I’m traveling about 1200 miles away for my next race, and it’s no big destination, but it’s to BQ. I’ve BQ’d many, many times, but I took many years off racing.
I’ll likely do some more obscure destination races after one more Boston.
If you travel 1200 miles for a race, especially since 2020, you should be ashamed. You're a part of the problem. Reality check needed.
Airplanes have HEPA filters and airflow makes them safer than most doctors offices and hospitals.
It sure seems to but doesn't have to. I have noticed a lot of my white collar colleagues (I'm a CIO in the finance sector) have hobbies that's involved health like running, triathlon, rowing, and hiking. Meanwhile most of my more Blue collar friends spend their free time camping, being in boats, it just drinking in the yard.
There are exceptions to either of course, for example one of the fastest people I personally know works in a warehouse, but for some reason the stereotype of blue collar not caring about getting out and doing fitness in their spare time seems to hold true.
The weird thing is a lot of these blue color people rely on their bodies for their work. They should be the ones getting massages and seeing chiropractors and staying in shape. I could become a cripple tomorrow and still do my job just as well but a bricklayer doesn't take care of their body and can't work after 50 is in a lot of trouble.
Chiropractic is pseudoscience. No wonder we have such a problem with antivaxers. The blind are leading the blind.