I have never once heard her talk about cadence or really caring so much about her HR while she runs. I think for her it's more about the music and getting to the finish line, than tweaking out every last bit of performance from her body.
OK, let me say this: 26.2 miles is not a trivial distance. Unless you've got some incredible level of natural talent and therefore it doesn't matter what you do to train for it, not paying enough attention to how you train will likely give you results ranging from 'not finishing at all', to 'getting seriously injured'. Really, honestly, please, tell her she needs to pay more attention to being properly conditioned and prepared, and less about what gadgets she's carrying. I'd also suggest shorter events and later on half-marathons as 'practice' for a full marathon.
Yes yes yes we all know how rediculous the 'audiophile' types are. Many of us also know that when it comes right down to it, 'wire is wire'. What many don't know is that three big factors in the overall quality of a cable assembly, are:
Bare cabling specifications (things like twists per foot, type of shielding, etc)
Connector quality
Overall quality of the complete assembly/quality control
If any of these three things are lacking, you'll end up with a crappy cable assembly that will fail you in one way or another. Sadly, just buying a name-brand cable doesn't always guarantee that you're getting high marks on all the essentials, but up to a point you get what you pay for.
If you don't get a physical copy of it, or at the very least a locally-stored, DRM-free copy, then you paid for something that may as well not even exist, because X-number of years from now when they decide the service isn't profitable enough anymore and they discontinue it, what you 'bought' will end up going away.
I wondered about that with footraces, I know bicycle road racing prohibits such things even in ITTs. There's also the concept of 'dont' do anything different in training than you'll do when racing'.
As something of an athlete myself, my advice to your wife is to focus on upgrading her engine, and worry about the bells-and-whistles later. Especially running out on public roads, but out running anywhere in public, you need to be aware of your surroundings, not drowning them out with music blaring in your ears. Furthermore running 26.2 miles requires mental toughness and focus; if you're relying on something external to drown out your personal demons, who are trying to sabotage you, what's going to happen when the thing dies or your earbuds fail? Skip the music. GPS I could go either way on, but if you know the course you're running on, what do you need GPS for? A watch with a chest strap for monitoring heart rate should be all she really needs to get started, they're inexpensive, durable, and will run for months on one set of batteries. If you really want to spend money on your wife being successful at marathoning, invest that money in a professional coach to give her a personalized training plan, monitor her progress, and overall maximize the benefit of the time she spends training.
..and no, this wasn't the advice you asked for, but I think it's the advice she needs.
Mod parent up. 'God told me to do it' is one of the lamest excuses ever for acts of war or violence. We, as a race, need to grow out of this nonsense. Also, people who want to 'ban' things? It never ends; the list of things they want to 'ban' grows perpetually. It's just like racism and discrimination, you let them get away with excluding one group of people, and it'll just go on and on.
What we need is 9 out of 10 users to start explicitly blocking tracking and advertising, and then flat-out ignore the companies who complain about their bottom line.
I'll tell you exactly what sort of response that would evoke from pretty much everyone, because I've already seen it: They start moving actual content and functionality for their sites to the same servers that are serving ads and things to track you, leaving you with two choices: accept their ads and tracking, or don't use their site at all. What's your response going to be when >90% of the Internet is denied to you, because you won't give in to their ads and tracking techniques? That's likely what's coming.
I'm 40 to 50 percent of the way (at least; it's a conservative estimate) towards just not using the Internet for anything, anymore, for that very reason. Even using an alias (as I do here), I know that at the very least my ISP can put together enough to track everywhere I go and everything I do, assuming they break all the rules, decrypt https, etc. Of course we now live in a world where, if you go too far off the grid (remove your Internet presence, start paying in cash for everything instead of using plastic) you trigger all sorts of three-letter agency attention that you don't want, because it's now considered a sign of possible criminal activity if you actually have the gall to protect your privacy.
NTs are often intolerant of seemingly minor differences in others. When in groups NTs are socially and behaviorally rigid, and frequently insist upon the performance of dysfunctional, destructive, and even impossible rituals as a way of maintaining group identity.
While I recognize the sarcastic humor in this (even without seeing the site mentioned; it's taking a geologic age to load for some reason) there is a shred of truth in what you're saying, but there is an older and more obvious reason for this sort of behavior: FEAR. The average person is horribly insecure, and cares way too much about what other people think of them, to the point of it dictating their choices in life. Peer pressure is probably one of the most destructive things that human beings do to each other, and it has a chilling effect on creativity in general.
It's weird that a lesser ability to socialize (high AQ) is considered a condition whereas a lesser ability to see patterns and handle information (low AQ) is considered normal.
Humans are, by large and far, still more animal than they are what I'd consider 'sentient, thinking beings', and that's why.
I'm sorry to say, I figured things would go this way with Volkswagen and it's other brands.
Now what I'm waiting for, is for someone else to start thinking, '..hey, what about all the other auto manufacturers out there?', and start testing all of them for signs of emissions-test-evasion.
can we please elect someone who can actually fix things????
I don't think any such person exists within the current system here in the U.S.; I'm really starting to think that POTUS is more like PUPPET, and the corporations and three-letter agencies (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc) are the real wielders of power in this country, and that today it may be mainly brown people and black people who are getting their rights as citizens ignored and basically treated like dogshit, but the day is probably coming where it won't matter what color your skin is, what your ancestry is, whether you were born here or not, because if you aren't the 1%, then you're just more meat for the grinder and basically worthless. I'd like to believe that there's a way to stop it before it happens, and maybe there is, and maybe it won't involve blowing up half the gods-be-damned world to accomplish it, but it's starting to look pretty grim out there -- never-the-less, though, 'it's always darkest before the dawn', and all that..
Oh for fuck's sake, dude.. I suppose you think I'm frothing at the mouth and covering my monitor with spittle or something in anger over shitposters on slashdot? Please. And, there's nonsense, then there's interesting, entertaining nonsense. This repetitive 'apps' crap is neither, it's just boring.
Hey buddy, I wouldn't mind if the trolls and shitposters would show a little creativity and originality, but it's the same copypasta over and over again, like they're high-functioning autism-spectrum disorder sufferers or something; if it's going to be noise instead of signal, can it at least be interesting noise?
Is there an app for shoving a stick of lit dynamite up the ass of Anonymous Cowards (likely named 'sexconker') who post the same drivel over and over ad infinitum until we all just want to puke?
I think I'm done paying for any OS, and I have no interest in 'donating' money either, as if I have any to spare anymore. I've got an old P4 laptop I got for free that's still running XP, I think I'll be picking out a Linux distro of some sort and learning how to use that, then when I build a new desktop finally I'll be all ready to load it up with that. The one or two pieces of software that I need to use that only have Windows versions will run just fine under WINE, from what I'm told.
Draconic, fascist Windows 10 comes out and Microsoft proceeds to try to force it down everyone's throat, and out of left field comes, after what seems like a geologic age, a new version of OS/2. Wow. Not sure what to think of that timing.
How can this possibly be compatible with the US Constitution? Anyone should be free to say whatever they want.
Would you point out for me where, precisely, it says, anywhere, that the U.S. government is going to send someone in to shut them down? All it says is 'they must register', which is perfectly reasonable, especially considering that China is not particularly friendly to the U.S., and whose interests are at odds with our own. Starting a petition that says 'ShanghaiBill is a worthless piece of crap human being and should be killed outright' is someone exercising their freedom of speech, but are you going to be comfortable with that when 10000 people sign it?
Castle is getting really hackneyed and long in the tooth.
I don't totally disagree. I've been watching it since the beginning, and still think it's rather fun, but when they broke the tension between Beckett and Castle, I knew it would be unlikely they'd be able to keep the party going for too much longer after that, without stirring things up in some drastic way -- which they've been trying to do, first with the 'Rick's disappearance' arc, now with the 'Kate being secretive and putting their marriage on hold' arc. I get the feeling that after the latter is over and done with, they're going to start winding it down.
Why not skip YASTS (Yet another star treck series) and bring back Firefly?
There is an obvious problem with that: Castle is a very popular show; trying to restart Firefly without Nathan Fillion would be a disaster. It would at the very least have to wait until Castle ends, which doesn't appear to be anytime soon (or, at least, not for a few more years). Additionally, Nathan Fillion isn't getting any younger, and neither are the rest of the original cast of Firefly, assuming you could even get them all back together at this point. You might be thinking 'get an all-new cast for the reboot of the show', but I'd think the likelihood of finding a cast with those qualities, and with the chemistry they collectively had, would likewise be rather unlikely. As much as I liked Firefly and Serenity, I think we need to just let sleeping dogs lie, and feel fortunate that we had any of it at all.
They took what could have been a fun season's worth of plot development and jammed into an episode as cliche and absurd as possible.
You're not the only one who noticed that. I was left with the general feeling that the episode was fun, but that it was unlikely that they'd be able to sustain that level of energy for even one season, let alone for many seasons. Eventually they'll run out of ideas and it'll get stale and grind to a halt. There's a chance that won't happen but I don't see it being very likely at all.
And we can't get Farscape back. Star Trek is lame. It was never science fiction and neither is Star Wars.
Farscape was a very good show without a doubt. But one could just as easily say that Farscape was just 'Muppets in Space', and not science fiction either, and for that matter much more 'science fantasy' than either Star Trek or Star Wars.
But crap (i)s what (i)s marketable. There (i)s hope - Tolkiens stuff was made into decent movies.
You're knocking something for not being science fiction and then you talk about Tolkien, which was pure fantasy? I'm confused, now, what were we talking about? Also much of Asimov and Heinlein is over the heads of the average person, and the average person is who they're trying to get to go pay to see movies in a theater, yes. Since you don't seem to be paying attention, you wouldn't realize that they're working on a Moon Is A Harsh Mistress motion picture adaptation of the book.
By the way you apparently need a new keyboard; your 'i' key is intermittently bad.
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Please, no. Just let the poor thing rest in peace.
I second the motion.
Last night I saw a Maybelline commercial, advertising Star Wars-themed makeup. Note that this was aimed at adult women, not little girls or teenage girls. That by itself was the Writing On The Wall, telling the story of what's become of the entire Star Wars franchise: It's turned into some sort of a joke.
That's where the Star Trek franchise has been going, since the two newest films: They're 'Star Trek-themed science fantasy films', not Star Trek films. Granted, the younger generation of viewers are likely scratching their heads in confusion, wondering what the hell I'm talking about, because they thought they were good movies. Yes; they were decently entertaining films, if you ignore what came before them, but they really weren't Star Trek, either. If CBS is going to base a television series on those films, then it'll really be more of a 'Star Trek-themed television show', not a 'Star Trek television series'. Probably won't bother with it, any more than, after the aforementioned Maybelline commercial, I'm likely to bother with this new Star Wars film that's coming out.
Meanwhile, Star Trek Continues, the fan-based production, based on (and following as closely as possible to the original series) has great merit, and I can highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Star Trek. It may not be as flashy and high-tech as current offerings, but if that's all someone thinks is important or necessary, then I'm talking to the wrong person anyway.
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I have never once heard her talk about cadence or really caring so much about her HR while she runs. I think for her it's more about the music and getting to the finish line, than tweaking out every last bit of performance from her body.
OK, let me say this: 26.2 miles is not a trivial distance. Unless you've got some incredible level of natural talent and therefore it doesn't matter what you do to train for it, not paying enough attention to how you train will likely give you results ranging from 'not finishing at all', to 'getting seriously injured'. Really, honestly, please, tell her she needs to pay more attention to being properly conditioned and prepared, and less about what gadgets she's carrying. I'd also suggest shorter events and later on half-marathons as 'practice' for a full marathon.
If any of these three things are lacking, you'll end up with a crappy cable assembly that will fail you in one way or another. Sadly, just buying a name-brand cable doesn't always guarantee that you're getting high marks on all the essentials, but up to a point you get what you pay for.
How permanent is permanent?
If you don't get a physical copy of it, or at the very least a locally-stored, DRM-free copy, then you paid for something that may as well not even exist, because X-number of years from now when they decide the service isn't profitable enough anymore and they discontinue it, what you 'bought' will end up going away.
many races ban headphones
I wondered about that with footraces, I know bicycle road racing prohibits such things even in ITTs. There's also the concept of 'dont' do anything different in training than you'll do when racing'.
No, I'm extremely sure that YOUR personal choices, as poor as they are, are NOT the advice someone training for a marathon needs.
As something of an athlete myself, my advice to your wife is to focus on upgrading her engine, and worry about the bells-and-whistles later. Especially running out on public roads, but out running anywhere in public, you need to be aware of your surroundings, not drowning them out with music blaring in your ears. Furthermore running 26.2 miles requires mental toughness and focus; if you're relying on something external to drown out your personal demons, who are trying to sabotage you, what's going to happen when the thing dies or your earbuds fail? Skip the music. GPS I could go either way on, but if you know the course you're running on, what do you need GPS for? A watch with a chest strap for monitoring heart rate should be all she really needs to get started, they're inexpensive, durable, and will run for months on one set of batteries. If you really want to spend money on your wife being successful at marathoning, invest that money in a professional coach to give her a personalized training plan, monitor her progress, and overall maximize the benefit of the time she spends training.
..and no, this wasn't the advice you asked for, but I think it's the advice she needs.
Mod parent up. 'God told me to do it' is one of the lamest excuses ever for acts of war or violence. We, as a race, need to grow out of this nonsense. Also, people who want to 'ban' things? It never ends; the list of things they want to 'ban' grows perpetually. It's just like racism and discrimination, you let them get away with excluding one group of people, and it'll just go on and on.
What we need is 9 out of 10 users to start explicitly blocking tracking and advertising, and then flat-out ignore the companies who complain about their bottom line.
I'll tell you exactly what sort of response that would evoke from pretty much everyone, because I've already seen it: They start moving actual content and functionality for their sites to the same servers that are serving ads and things to track you, leaving you with two choices: accept their ads and tracking, or don't use their site at all. What's your response going to be when >90% of the Internet is denied to you, because you won't give in to their ads and tracking techniques? That's likely what's coming.
I'm 40 to 50 percent of the way (at least; it's a conservative estimate) towards just not using the Internet for anything, anymore, for that very reason. Even using an alias (as I do here), I know that at the very least my ISP can put together enough to track everywhere I go and everything I do, assuming they break all the rules, decrypt https, etc. Of course we now live in a world where, if you go too far off the grid (remove your Internet presence, start paying in cash for everything instead of using plastic) you trigger all sorts of three-letter agency attention that you don't want, because it's now considered a sign of possible criminal activity if you actually have the gall to protect your privacy.
NTs are often intolerant of seemingly minor differences in others. When in groups NTs are socially and behaviorally rigid, and frequently insist upon the performance of dysfunctional, destructive, and even impossible rituals as a way of maintaining group identity.
While I recognize the sarcastic humor in this (even without seeing the site mentioned; it's taking a geologic age to load for some reason) there is a shred of truth in what you're saying, but there is an older and more obvious reason for this sort of behavior: FEAR. The average person is horribly insecure, and cares way too much about what other people think of them, to the point of it dictating their choices in life. Peer pressure is probably one of the most destructive things that human beings do to each other, and it has a chilling effect on creativity in general.
It's weird that a lesser ability to socialize (high AQ) is considered a condition whereas a lesser ability to see patterns and handle information (low AQ) is considered normal.
Humans are, by large and far, still more animal than they are what I'd consider 'sentient, thinking beings', and that's why.
Do whatever you want to your commercials, I never see them anyway. Thanks TiVo!
I'm sorry to say, I figured things would go this way with Volkswagen and it's other brands.
Now what I'm waiting for, is for someone else to start thinking, '..hey, what about all the other auto manufacturers out there?', and start testing all of them for signs of emissions-test-evasion.
can we please elect someone who can actually fix things????
I don't think any such person exists within the current system here in the U.S.; I'm really starting to think that POTUS is more like PUPPET, and the corporations and three-letter agencies (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc) are the real wielders of power in this country, and that today it may be mainly brown people and black people who are getting their rights as citizens ignored and basically treated like dogshit, but the day is probably coming where it won't matter what color your skin is, what your ancestry is, whether you were born here or not, because if you aren't the 1%, then you're just more meat for the grinder and basically worthless. I'd like to believe that there's a way to stop it before it happens, and maybe there is, and maybe it won't involve blowing up half the gods-be-damned world to accomplish it, but it's starting to look pretty grim out there -- never-the-less, though, 'it's always darkest before the dawn', and all that..
Oh for fuck's sake, dude.. I suppose you think I'm frothing at the mouth and covering my monitor with spittle or something in anger over shitposters on slashdot? Please. And, there's nonsense, then there's interesting, entertaining nonsense. This repetitive 'apps' crap is neither, it's just boring.
Hey buddy, I wouldn't mind if the trolls and shitposters would show a little creativity and originality, but it's the same copypasta over and over again, like they're high-functioning autism-spectrum disorder sufferers or something; if it's going to be noise instead of signal, can it at least be interesting noise?
Is there an app for shoving a stick of lit dynamite up the ass of Anonymous Cowards (likely named 'sexconker') who post the same drivel over and over ad infinitum until we all just want to puke?
'contribute'
I think I'm done paying for any OS, and I have no interest in 'donating' money either, as if I have any to spare anymore. I've got an old P4 laptop I got for free that's still running XP, I think I'll be picking out a Linux distro of some sort and learning how to use that, then when I build a new desktop finally I'll be all ready to load it up with that. The one or two pieces of software that I need to use that only have Windows versions will run just fine under WINE, from what I'm told.
Draconic, fascist Windows 10 comes out and Microsoft proceeds to try to force it down everyone's throat, and out of left field comes, after what seems like a geologic age, a new version of OS/2. Wow. Not sure what to think of that timing.
How can this possibly be compatible with the US Constitution? Anyone should be free to say whatever they want.
Would you point out for me where, precisely, it says, anywhere, that the U.S. government is going to send someone in to shut them down? All it says is 'they must register', which is perfectly reasonable, especially considering that China is not particularly friendly to the U.S., and whose interests are at odds with our own. Starting a petition that says 'ShanghaiBill is a worthless piece of crap human being and should be killed outright' is someone exercising their freedom of speech, but are you going to be comfortable with that when 10000 people sign it?
Castle is getting really hackneyed and long in the tooth.
I don't totally disagree. I've been watching it since the beginning, and still think it's rather fun, but when they broke the tension between Beckett and Castle, I knew it would be unlikely they'd be able to keep the party going for too much longer after that, without stirring things up in some drastic way -- which they've been trying to do, first with the 'Rick's disappearance' arc, now with the 'Kate being secretive and putting their marriage on hold' arc. I get the feeling that after the latter is over and done with, they're going to start winding it down.
Why not skip YASTS (Yet another star treck series) and bring back Firefly?
There is an obvious problem with that: Castle is a very popular show; trying to restart Firefly without Nathan Fillion would be a disaster. It would at the very least have to wait until Castle ends, which doesn't appear to be anytime soon (or, at least, not for a few more years). Additionally, Nathan Fillion isn't getting any younger, and neither are the rest of the original cast of Firefly, assuming you could even get them all back together at this point. You might be thinking 'get an all-new cast for the reboot of the show', but I'd think the likelihood of finding a cast with those qualities, and with the chemistry they collectively had, would likewise be rather unlikely. As much as I liked Firefly and Serenity, I think we need to just let sleeping dogs lie, and feel fortunate that we had any of it at all.
They took what could have been a fun season's worth of plot development and jammed into an episode as cliche and absurd as possible.
You're not the only one who noticed that. I was left with the general feeling that the episode was fun, but that it was unlikely that they'd be able to sustain that level of energy for even one season, let alone for many seasons. Eventually they'll run out of ideas and it'll get stale and grind to a halt. There's a chance that won't happen but I don't see it being very likely at all.
And we can't get Farscape back.
Star Trek is lame. It was never science fiction and neither is Star Wars.
Farscape was a very good show without a doubt. But one could just as easily say that Farscape was just 'Muppets in Space', and not science fiction either, and for that matter much more 'science fantasy' than either Star Trek or Star Wars.
But crap (i)s what (i)s marketable. There (i)s hope - Tolkiens stuff was made into decent movies.
You're knocking something for not being science fiction and then you talk about Tolkien, which was pure fantasy? I'm confused, now, what were we talking about? Also much of Asimov and Heinlein is over the heads of the average person, and the average person is who they're trying to get to go pay to see movies in a theater, yes. Since you don't seem to be paying attention, you wouldn't realize that they're working on a Moon Is A Harsh Mistress motion picture adaptation of the book.
By the way you apparently need a new keyboard; your 'i' key is intermittently bad.
Please, no. Just let the poor thing rest in peace.
I second the motion.
Last night I saw a Maybelline commercial, advertising Star Wars-themed makeup. Note that this was aimed at adult women, not little girls or teenage girls. That by itself was the Writing On The Wall, telling the story of what's become of the entire Star Wars franchise: It's turned into some sort of a joke.
That's where the Star Trek franchise has been going, since the two newest films: They're 'Star Trek-themed science fantasy films', not Star Trek films. Granted, the younger generation of viewers are likely scratching their heads in confusion, wondering what the hell I'm talking about, because they thought they were good movies. Yes; they were decently entertaining films, if you ignore what came before them, but they really weren't Star Trek, either. If CBS is going to base a television series on those films, then it'll really be more of a 'Star Trek-themed television show', not a 'Star Trek television series'. Probably won't bother with it, any more than, after the aforementioned Maybelline commercial, I'm likely to bother with this new Star Wars film that's coming out.
Meanwhile, Star Trek Continues, the fan-based production, based on (and following as closely as possible to the original series) has great merit, and I can highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Star Trek. It may not be as flashy and high-tech as current offerings, but if that's all someone thinks is important or necessary, then I'm talking to the wrong person anyway.