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I always thought with Bruno it wasn't about when he was hit, but more about when he was gassed - also a problem with that body type.

Is everyone fired up for Saturday? I'm giving Beterbiev the edge, but only because there's more at stake for him (and the clock's ticking). Decent undercard too...

I take about 3g daily for maintenance (being quite diminutive in stature), but take the same intra-workout in my carb drink. Can help with the shaky reps, and also it’s very efficiently shuttled into your muscles while in a state of physiological excitability; apparently.

Possibly helps with post-manopausal brain fog. Hard to tell.

RIP

Goals (at 70 bw):

• Generally be injury-free
  
• OHP: 1 plate, then 1x bw
  
• Bench: 2 plates, then 1.5x bw
  
• Deadlift: 200, then 3x bw
  
• Squat: 150*, then 2.5x bw
  
  

*I have done 150 as a sort of hybrid squat to parallel, but would prefer to nail it with full depth, high bar, weightlifting form.

And to continue feeling more robust and mobile now I’m a 50something.

I struggle to read long sentiences.

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Ha, classic Estates.

If I find a window that's not locked shut or dangerously seated in a crumbling aperture, I open it – a behaviour predating the pandemic. The much trumpeted green credentials have never applied to ridiculously elevated thermostat settings, no matter how much we've complained. World-class, global excellence, etc., etc..

Yes, stacks. I've been to the main repository at Boston Spa: all low oxygen, low temperature, massive computerised retrieval robot-ladder things. There are humans loading and unloading crates though. TBH, I think they'd still have more oxygen in that massive space than in a stuffy over-crowded reading room in the UCL building where I work. In the BeforeTimes, students were living in the library 24/7 in the run-up to exams, and I don't mind telling you, they fucking stank.

Surely not the last 5 minutes? Is it contractual for Mads Mikkelsen to have narrative-tainting schmaltz at the end of all his films?

Hello. I fractured no.9 (so much for lucky number), posterior. Couldn’t run the first three days. Couldn’t do much really. Not doing any fast running at the moment, but from week two I was able to get out there at easy pace, avoiding uneven surfaces and mad descents to start with. Happy to trot round a 2 hour run at ~5min/km pace the third week, throwing in some tempo the fourth (and light trail).

Running was probably the easiest cardio option. Few trips on the Brompton and some Wattbike sessions were uncomfortable at first. It’s only in week 6 that I’ve been able to put the hammer down, and deal with twisting forces out the saddle. On the erg, from week 2 I could row with damper on minimum, but am now up to speed, though avoiding hard starts.

Codeine and Ibuprofen in week one, twice daily calcium supplement throughout rehab. Plenty of sleep, once sleep was comfortable.

Get well soon.

Side effects seem to be world-weariness and misanthropy. Oh, hang on…

#influencer

Yeah, just mumbled incoherently while listening to some 1999 Kelis on the bone conduction headphones. Moderna OG 4 Life.

Yes. It’s usually the suspension block. Bit of grease, etc.

I first heard Housemate Troubles when I was having housemate troubles 🙄

I got it on the 18th of December.

It’s obsolete.

2021:

Dunno really. Had all my 200/400/800 goals lined up for last year, was on target but horribly injured, then blah blah blah. Now spending more time Zwifting for a new team, but:

• turn 48 without dying

• stick to the rule of no runs without a 48hr gap, unless VERY short and VERY easy, to hopefully heal that final few % of dysfunction in my left Achilles (insertion)

• pleased with 118bpm avg HR during easy 5:20/k pace HM on Saturday, so maybe build on cardio base to revisit the idea of a sub-17' 5k… but my heart truly yearns for the buzz of the 400m, or 800m if I'm at a manic phase of my mood cycle

• pretty much carry on as I have been, enjoying a 3x run per week mix of road, trail, long, tempo, and hill

• enjoy the exploits of other members of the running community.

Watch out for the tight, off camber bends. It’s a ~400yd track, so lane 3 or 4 to make it metric. I only ever use it for doing strides on the straights. This time of year you probably only need a bit of tempo work anyway, if HM is your goal. Good luck!

@andyp @Scoot It’s not a good idea to sneak in. All our club’s formal training there has been curtailed again, barring small organised groups for the juniors; and we (the club) are working hard with other stakeholders to keep things COVID-secure and prepare for reopening as soon as is practicable.

For flat/measured training, alternatives regularly used by club mates are the cinder tracks at Regent’s & Victoria Park, or quiet residential pseudo-tracks like this one (AKA the Corbynator): https://strava.app.link/8O3A7eYzFcb

Go to 1:08:22

https://youtu.be/xIUY_mOjS8I&t=1h8m22s

Someone tell the Pauwels Bingoal kit people to redesign their mask, please. I can’t look at any more of this mutant mouth shit. It’s even worse during interviews.

Search back a few pages and there’s a massive discussion about AT.

Unless the symbiotic relationship is too deeply ingrained…

It was inevitable they’d be in a micro-race against each other, first time head-to-head on the road. Now it’s out of their systems they can get on with racing the rest of the field.