The New York Times’ Rod Nordland gives Cairo Runners and Egyptian devotees of CrossFit lots of love this morning in “Egyptians take to the streets again, now in workout gear.” The piece (long and punctuated by lovely, atmospheric images by photographer Sima Diab) notes that “Egypt’s young people have once again taken to the streets. This time, though, they are in spandex and on bicycles, in kayaks and sculls on the Nile, doing street workouts in the slums of Giza or CrossFit exercises in makeshift rooftop gyms. … Egyptian squash players are among the best in the world, and privileged families have long pushed their children to take up sports, but the new focus on fitness is drawing in people from all classes, with substantial numbers of women, too, and is more about exercise for exercise than about games or competition. Many Egyptians see it as a direct outgrowth of the withering of the political revolution under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.”