Local Runner Skips Track Workout, Citing Global Supply Chain Issues
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A local man skipped his run yesterday, blaming disruptions in the global supply chain—the third time this month the longtime runner has used that excuse when missing a workout.
Don Covay, 33, maintains that he had every intention of completing the workout—10 x 400 meters, with a one-mile warmup and one-mile cooldown—but that a worldwide slowdown in the production and distribution of goods thwarted his plans.
A supply chain crisis, worsened by the COVID pandemic and labor shortages, has indeed plagued manufacturers and retailers as well as consumers, but Covay did not explain how, exactly, it affected his training schedule.
“It’s all over the news,” Covay told Dumb Runner. “This supply chain mess has slowed everything to a crawl.”
“I wish I could have done my speed workout [yesterday], but, you know, my hands were tied,” he said. “Factories waiting for raw materials, cargo ships stacked up at ports, runs being canceled… Everything’s a mess.”
Instead of completing his track workout, Covay spent yesterday morning “puttering around the house” and playing video games. Asked whether he will do a hill run planned for Thursday, he was noncommittal.
“We’ll have to wait and see,” he said. “But it’s not looking good.”
