RW has been teetering towards the “thinness magazine*” side for a while now, but I’ve just kind of gone “meh” and tried to ignore it because it was still a great running mag. Now every month there’s a “how to lose lots of weight!” blurb on the cover and today’s e-mail… there were five little topics there, these were three of them. Ugh. Unsubscribed, finally.

That’s one thing I’ve been loving about P90X (got it as an early Christmas present, just started the second month, love it to little bitty bits)–they emphazise fitness and health over weight loss and tell you not to stress about the number on the scale but measure your progress by how much stronger you get and how much better your endurance is and all that.

*someday I will do a post about the difference between “fitness magazines/websites/etc.” and “thinness magazines/websites/etc,” but that will require me to be able to discuss the subject and explain why treating “thinness” like it’s synonymous with “fitness” is stupid without just typing the word “fuck” eight thousand times

Butthurt because the roads are closed for three whole hours, motorists sabotage a charity bike race with carpet tacks.

You guys. Seriously. Seriously, you guys.

Although the three-hour race has been staged annually for several years, protestors have complained about their freedom of movement being restricted.

They have argued that tourists may be put off coming to the area and locals could be prevented from getting to church.

OH NOES PEOPLE MIGHT MISS ONE DAY OF CHURCH. OH NOES TOURISTS WHO JUST COME TO SEE THE TOWN FOR THE HELL OF IT MIGHT TEMPORARILY BE REPLACED BY TOURISTS WHO COME TO WATCH AND PARTICIPATE IN THE RACE.

Great job, guys! ugh.

[ETA: I see this actually happened back in May, but this is the first I'd heard of it.]