Breakfast Club: May 3, 2021

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Sunrise over the Bay from Mount Tam. Photo: Sam Luff

Welcome back to Breakfast Club! I hope you are well and safe.

It's a short newsletter this week. To be frank, I'm tired.

Work is intense of late. The outbreak in India has hit my company hard with many colleagues falling ill. This acute grimness compounds the enervating glum of 9-10 hours of daily, digitally interfaced labor. I'm fine, but all of it takes a toll.

That being said, here are some pieces that lifted my spirits amid a tough week.
 

Heard on the run

• Arlene Pieper died this week at the age of 90. In 1959, Pieper became the first woman to finish a marathon. Incredibly, she did it at Pikes Peak, a grueling ascent and descent of 8,000 feet. She never raced another marathon. (NY Times)
   

• Liam Boylan-Pett's piece on 12 seconds of footage at the NCAA cross-country champs captures the incomparable energy of a race start and unveils the labor that went into the television production. The aside about J…