I love my airpods. Before these I’ve never had an earbud that actually stays in my ear. I sweat like crazy with them when I’m hiking and never had a problem.
+1 to airpods and airpods pro, with the caveat you may need smaller or larger eartips with the latter. easily best pandemic purchase
I was in Cincinnati for several days for a swim meet and ran a couple of times on the treadmill in the hotel. This was it, a pretty standard hotel tread:
It was unbelievable how much it made me miss my own tread. The hotel one was probably a little more solid/stable than mine, but the enormous difference was how difficult it was to change speed and incline, and how responsive it was once I did it.
The first day, I was doing a guided (Peloton ldo) run that called for a bunch of speed changes. I had to repeatedly jab at those buttons in the middle of the console, because they only went up 0.1 mph at a time. Not only was this a pain in the ass (because I sometimes missed the buttons depending on whether I was struggling or not**) but it took FOREVER for the tread to actually arrive at the desired speed.
**At one point, I accidentally hit the stop button immediately underneath the buttons I was aiming for. That was a fun transition.
It really made me miss the scrolling wheels on either side of my tread at home, the jump buttons on those wheels (that jump full 1.0 mph or 1.0 incline % increments at a time), and the quick responsiveness. All continues to be good in Peloton-land (other than them probably going out of business).
Are they having business issues?
Their financial results are terrible. They have millions of dedicated customers willing to throw money at them for streamed video classes, and they’re managing to lose money hand over fist.
Thats what tech bros call “innovation”.
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no real competitors either
IMO they’re basically an easy to run and very profitable business if they simply stream their content, and they lose money on selling/maintaining the actual hardware. They should license their content to trusted manufacturers that make high-quality bikes and treads.
Do they plan to do this? Of course not - they’ve already announced plans to introduce a new piece of hardware (rowing machine) that is going to make their results even worse.
And it’s one thing to consistently lose money in a world where you can borrow at <5% rates, but now that they’ve really got to pay up for cash borrowing is a big deal.
It sucks because there are very few companies whose products I like this much and I really, really want them to survive.
How are they losing money on equipment when the shit costs that much?
The bike isn’t actually that expensive, and having a giant tablet attached to it adds to the cost. I think where they’re really losing money is on the treadmill and all of the service required because their third party delivery/installation company is garbage.
In other news, my wife is in NYC with a kid and stalked the Peloton studio hoping to see an instructor in person. She got a picture with Cody Rigsby, and she seems to be on cloud nine. So hopefully that means all of the karma I deserve for single parenting the other two kids the last few days just got multiplied by a billion.
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I’ve been meaning to write an update for a while.
I’ve basically been out of action due to tendonitis in the elbow. I finally went to physio and I’m finally making progress.
The physio I’m seeing has been great. Shes got two masters degrees (in real science and real medicine) and seemed to be very evidence based.
She shared some stuff with me about tendons that was a total epiphany to me. And certainly explained what I’d been seeing.
So. Most people know that tendons have very little blood flow and so heal very slowly.
But what she was telling me was that tendon damage actually weakens and hollows out the inside of the tendon.
A weak tendon is essentially a hollow tube. Live strong tissues surrounding dead useless tissue that cant hold any weight, and at worst is full of nerve endings which cause pain under stress.
Because of this. A tendon wont EVER recover its former strength on it’s own.
So while a lot of rest is important to heal any tears. It’s not enough to get better.
Instead. You need to strengthen the tendon and create new tissue. This will grow on the outside of the tendon, creating a thicker healthy tube around the damaged tissue inside. This is why a recovered tendon, especially an Achilles, can get very thick.
So. The only method to fix a tendon issue is progressive weight bearing excercises. To allow your body to create new tissue. This happens at a very slow pace.
This is all very counterintuitive. Because a ligament will heal. So will a muscle or a bone. So we tend to think rest will be enough. But it just doesnt work that way.
Hope some of your minds are as blown as mine was.
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Offshoot from a post in the beer thread, but it’s not really about beer at all.
I posted last week that after having a couple of beers the night before, I did a 14 mile run that felt fine. I had a couple of beers last night as well, and I suppose if last week was a win, I should post my losses, too.
Today’s run was dreadful.
The overall numbers don’t really tell the story. I basically ran the first 11 or 12 miles at about a 9 minute/mile pace, and then crashed hard. I had to do a split of run/walking for the rest of it. Now, run/walk is a perfectly good way to train, if that’s an intentional choice. This was not. I felt physically terrible after the run was over.
Possibly relevant factors:
- My sleep last night wasn’t great, but wasn’t terrible. It was a score of 78/100, labeled as “restless”.
- I didn’t really rest before the run today - I did some sprints on Friday and a relatively hard 30 minute bike ride yesterday.
- I didn’t break anything to drink. I did bring a gel packet, though.
- Temperature was mid 80s. I had been hoping to go out around 9am, but life got in the way and I didn’t get out until about 12:30.
Other than random “shit happens, bad runs happen”, I think temperature played the biggets role. Of course it would have been sensible to take water with me, but I’m generally find up to 2 hours with no water and I crashed before that.
I think this was the longest run I’ve done in about 6 years (since my last marathon), but I’ve been banging out 13 and 14 mile runs with no problem, so this was pretty demoralizing.
Too many confounding variables imo, especially the heat as you point out. I’m not ready to blame the beer yet.
From my experience, it is less the rest before a session, and more the rest after the previous session. I.e. how well are you recovering, building training effect and clearing fatigue.
There were some studies on rugby players. Up to 8 pints of beer the day before had no impact on performance.
i’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but sounds like it could be an issue with hydration.
I ran another 5K in March, even though my training in the winter had been a bit uneven due to my kids being out of school/covid etc. I finished in 29:39 though for almost 2 min improvement from November so whatever I did get done helped I guess.
I then didn’t get a whole lot done because kids got out of school and I moved out of apartment to a house in early may but starting in mid may i bought a cheapish nordic track treadmill and a dumbbell set and have been doing darebee workouts rotating through whole body as well as working up my runnning on runcoach. Planning a 10K in November so have plenty of time to workup to that, up to 12 miles a week this week and going ok.
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Better day today:
Differences between today and the failure this past Sunday:
- It was mid 60s temperature
- I had taken off the last 3 days completely - no workouts of any kind
- No alcohol over the last 4 days (I don’t think this mattered)
Still didn’t take any water with me on the run, nor did I eat anything beforehand. Based on today’s run, I think the top 2 explanations for my poor run on Sunday were:
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cumulative mileage going into the run, with no real rest in the days prior. Looking at my monthly distances, I probably jumped up too much in June:
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much higher temperature than I’m accustomed to
If I’m going to run a marathon this fall, I’m going to have to get that weekly mileage up, but I’m going to have to be more thoughtful about exactly how I schedule it. As for temperature, I think that will work itself out for any races after October 1 or so. But I will have to be smart enough to do my long runs at non-peak temperatures, which should be common sense.
Conditions haven’t been great for running on the east coast for the last week or so. Today seems the worst yet. At the end of my run it was about 85 degrees and 77% humidity. My phone says that makes it feel like 93. I was planning on doing some speed work at the end of my run, but I was feeling so beat at the end of what was supposed to be 5 easy miles that I decided to skip it. May try to tack it on to the end of tomorrow’s run if conditions are better.