Things to Miss about Egypt: Great Excuses to Avoid Running

• I'll break my leg
• I'll die of heat exhaustion (hmmmm...where's that post I mean to write the day it was 118 degrees?!)
• I'll get run over
• I'll go into respiratory arrest
• I'll go blind
• I'll catch dysentery
• I'll get attacked by a dog
• I'll get attacked by a man on the street
• I'll get attacked by a man in a car
• I'll get attacked by a man in the gym
• I'll get attacked by a scary woman in a niqab
• I'll get attacked by street children

Cairo: where any of these are likely and it's more desirable to lay around on the couch and get fat rather than to brave the elements. (I won't have any excuses in Ecuador!)