Also, itās 19 seconds per mile off world record 10k pace, and 9 seconds faster than womenās 10k world record pace.
Also also, he was .1 seconds per mile faster than womenās 5k world record pace.
Just let people cheat at sports, at least in a cheater league. No rules beyond the rules of the game itself. I would watch the shit out of cheater leagues of every sport.
The official womenās marathon record, which has not been broken for 16 years, was also broken yesterday:
Guess what shoes she was wearing?
The fastest five marathons ever run in the menās side have all been in the last year, and now the fastest womenās marathon, all with the same shoe.
This has got nothing to do with more doping, and everything to do with better technology.
I didnāt realize this, but Bekele also finished 2 seconds off the world record last month in Berlin.
Bekele has the world record in the 5k and 10k. And heās 2 seconds off the marathon WR.
I donāt remember which episode it was mentioned in, but I had exactly the same experience with running shoes.
Last year I went to a foot specialist because I was having pain in my heels. It wasnāt bad when walking or standing, but I couldnāt lay flat with any weight on my heels without so much pain I couldnāt relax or sleep.
They did a foot exam and gait analysis and had me run on a treadmill. The team told me the shoes I was running werenāt giving my heels enough support, and their top recommendation was a new pair of running shoes. They even gave me a few specific recommendations from a few different brands.
Also I got heel inserts for the rest of my shoes. These combined solved all my heel pain issues!
There is, no doubt, a limit to how long running shoes last, and itās huge help to replace them when needed.
I was ill for a few weeks, and it seems to have got to me in terms of both physical and mental
health. Getting back into a habit of physically exercise again is giving a real boost across the board.
Today I took a spade to the forest to do some digging in a place some local kids are trying (very unsuccessfully) to make fun mountain bike jumps. Combining physical activity with actually making something fun and useful gives a big boost. I guess thatās why people spend time gardening.
Also Iām working on a skill-based self-improvement project, which I can track with a spreadsheet. Again, a big boost to mental attitude seeing objective improvements.
This kind of thing is covered pretty well in this video from early in the lockdown, but itās worth sharing here again:
A pretty great video about an epic run and record attampt:
Havenāt had much exercises since the pandemic hit, apart from skating and cycling. Iāve finally started back with some aerial classes. Feels good.
Heh, trapeze, Iāve not done that since I was 13 or 14. The knee-hang backflip was the first thing they usually had us do. I kinda wonder if I can still do some of the more complicated stuff I could do as a kid, considering Iāve more than doubled in weight since then.
Gotta say, if you have the infrastructure to actually do it, itās a great way to stay in shape, those kicks are full core kicks.
We did another century up to Poughkeepsie, but faster and with only one stop this time!
Tom7 ran every street in Pittsburgh.
That is a very satisfying video. Thanks for the recommendation.
For many years I always assumed I weighed about 78 to 80 kg (about 170 lb). It fluctuated a bit, but pretty much held around there. But then I got into my late 30ās, and then turned 40 during covid, and life changed a bit. I had to admit that my default weight no longer held up to actual real life measurements.
After a busy summer of work and travel, I got annoyed with my body shape and weight. With a six week gap until my next work trip, I decided to do something about it. And so began āReturn of the Six-Packā project.
In reality, my six week goal had nothing to do with visible abs, but instead to kick my diet into shape more than my body into shape. My default every-day food previously remained unexamined while at home, and while on work trips Iām usually on cruise ships where food is literally unlimited in variety, quantity and in availability throughout the day.
āSuccessā was to get under 80kg again.
So my diet re-engineering plan was based around:
- reducing bread (my previous default was 5 slices of sandwich bread for lunch every day )
- reducing other wheat products (no longer 4 Weetabix for breakfast every day)
- reducing sugar (normally a big spoon of sugar on my breakfast, plus 3-5 cups of tea every day, each with a tea spoon full of sugar)
- reducing other products with added sugar (goodbye multiple snickers bars during every bike ride and training session)
- increase in fibre (replacing bread at lunch with various bean-based salads)
- increase protein (beans but also eggs, chicken, etc for lunch)
- snack on fruit rather than defaulting to sweet stuff
This was all focused on breakfast, lunch and snacking, leaving evening meals pretty much the same.
Besides my diet, I made no changes to my other fitness efforts. Iāve kept up my per-week activities of two juggling sessions (a 3-4 hour session plus a 1.5 hour session), two or three bike rides (normally a big 4+ hour ride on the weekends plus two 1 hour rides during the week), plus some sporadic weights sessions.
I wanted to see what just changing my diet would do, and not changing much else.
Final report!
On day one I weighed 88.4 kg (195 lb). Six weeks later Iām at 79.2 kg (174.5 lb). A reduction of about 10% of my initial body weight.
The weekly weigh-ins revealed steady progress broken up by a juggling convention trip where I had no real control over my food and stuffed myself on bread for three days. I feel waaaay lighter, my belt is a hole shorter, and my face has returned to a shape more recognisable in photos from 10 years ago. Overall Iād call it a success.
Two things that I think helped:
- keeping a food diary. I wrote down everything I ate, not to keep track of calories, instead to keep myself honest.
- basic meal prep. I made myself three lunches at a time, one to eat right away, and two to eat on the following days, just to make lunch stress free and appealing.
Was lunch anything else, orā¦ just bread?
Normally two sandwiches would have combinations of ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, mushrooms, peppers, cream cheese, etc. Then one or two slices of toast with honey, jam, lemon curd, nutella, etc.
What can I sayā¦ I like sandwiches?
Every single study I have ever read on the topic agrees that food journaling is far and away the most effective tool for sustaining weight loss. Itās an excellent habit to develop!
Yup. But I now hope Iāve developed a habit of eating the right kind and quantity of food, and no longer have to keep up the habit of food journaling.