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2024.04.27 15:30 kenUdigitt Novel Chapter 400
Disclaimer: I do not speak Korean. This is purely translated by machine with a lot of cleanup afterward. With that in mind, I am open to criticism to improve these translations. Enjoy!
Chapter 400
From the moment he first crossed swords with Jin Tae-Kyung, the Black Knight instinctively knew.
'He's strong.'
The adversary before him was undoubtedly formidable. Even with every ounce of his strength, victory remained uncertain; he was facing someone of equal or superior might.
As they matched each blow for blow, his realization deepened.
'This is going to be a tough fight.'
Yet, neither fear nor retreat took hold within the Black Knight.
He served his Monarch with unwavering loyalty, driven by a mission to execute his sovereign's will.
They were titans clashing, where even a minor edge could pivot the outcome of battle.
'If I don't give up, an opportunity will come.'
The Black Knight clung to this belief.
It was an adage he’d recited since childhood, one that had carried him through countless conflicts and forged his strength.
'...I did?'
Confusion clouded his thoughts; his movements became erratic.
His adversary was too skilled to overlook such a lapse.
Swoosh, scrape!
The spear's blade tore through decaying flesh.
Bang!
A burst of blue flame engulfed his chest.
Amidst the scorching blaze, the Black Knight registered a feeling: pain.
'What is this...?'
It wasn’t the pain that baffled him, but the odd familiarity of this alien sensation.
'These memories... what on earth are they?'
His chest pulsed with pain, his head throbbed.
With each relentless strike that forced him back, flashes of an unknown person’s life raced before him.
'This can't be!'
'The Mana Adaptability score is incredibly high. It's the highest ever recorded!'
'We need to enroll him in the Chinese Training Program immediately!'
Figures clad in pristine white clothes buzzed with enthusiasm, while a middle-aged man in a stern, dark uniform observed.
'Chinese Training Program? Are you suggesting we raise this child to be a Hunter?'
'Of course, it must be so. This child is only thirteen years old and already has a Mana Adaptability score comparable to Fei Chen. He has enough potential to become an S-rank Hunter, or even the best in our nation!'
'I refuse.'
'W-what?'
'No, Lieutenant General Wei. What do you mean? This child is...'
'Enough.'
The middle-aged man’s voice was measured and quiet.
'He's my only nephew. What I promised my sister was to make him happy, not to turn him into a Hunter and put him in danger.'
'Awakened Hunter is a noble profession. If this child becomes an S-rank Hunter, it will be a blessing for everyone!'
'I know how noble their work is. But that's also how my brother-in-law...'
He paused, shaking his head.
'Whatever you say, my decision won't change. If there weren't orders from above, he wouldn't have even been tested. We'll leave now, so please handle things on your own.'
'Lieutenant General Wei, Lieutenant General Wei!'
Ignoring the shouts behind him, the middle-aged man walked over with a strained smile and reached out his hand.
'You've waited a long time, right? Let's go now.'
The Black Knight, or rather, the owner of the memories, took the middle-aged man’s hand.
A tiny, pale hand.
Soon, a youthful voice broke the silence.
'Uncle.'
'Hmm?'
'I want to become a Hunter.'
In that moment, a tumult of emotions played across the middle-aged man’s face.
He bit his lip, watching silently for a long moment before exhaling a worried sigh as faces alight with optimism approached from behind.
'The Chinese Training Program is a project crafted with great care. It is thoroughly safe and highly effective. Wu Hei-Xing of the same age is also doing well.'
'If the child changes his mind, we will stop at any time.'
The most senior among them laid a hand on the middle-aged man’s shoulder and said,
'Please trust us and leave him in our care, Lieutenant General Wei Feng-Hu.'
Wei Feng-Hu, Wei Feng-Hu...
The name resounded endlessly within the Black Knight’s mind, a name deeply cherished and profoundly missed.
Bang!
Was the pain in his chest from the blow he had received, or was it from something more profound?
As the Black Knight staggered, another memory surfaced before his eyes.
'Do you think you're the best because the adults praise you?'
A boy clad in a black suit, bow tie, and polished shoes stared at him with piercing eyes.
'Don't be mistaken. I'm the best. You're next in line!'
The Black Knight's vision tilted, and then a naive voice flowed out.
'Alright. Let's go with that.'
'What?'
'I'm fine with being second. Third is okay too, and I don't mind even being last.'
The boy with the sharp expression gaped.
'Are you stupid? Do you want to be worse than Jang Wei, who's currently the worst in the training camp?' [Note: this was one of the Hunters we met in Chapter 391.]
'But Jang Wei is kind and helps others too, right? He'll make a great Hunter.'
'Y-you're mocking me, aren't you?'
'No, not really. I just do whatever you like... Ouch!'
Thud!
Within moments, he had overpowered the boy who had lunged at him unexpectedly. The boy squirmed under his hold, yelling,
'I'm the best! Wu Hei-Xing is the best at everything!'
As one memory faded, another rose. It was as if someone was calmly throwing stones into a tranquil pond.
The Black Knight's mind was continually disturbed by these unknown recollections.
'Top trainee, ..., step forward.'
A handful of individuals occupied the expansive area.
Somehow, he found himself moving automatically at the call, which he barely registered.
Step. Step.
His stride was steady and purposeful, his field-of-view more elevated than before.
Now a young man, he approached an elder in uniform who affixed a medal to his chest.
A familiar face from his earliest memories whispered,
'Will you not regret this?'
'I have no regrets. I haven't before, and I won't in the future.'
'Most people will never know of your existence. Perhaps you might have to live like a shadow all your life.'
'I learned that another name for a Hunter is a guardian. Just because I'm not seen doesn't mean my honor disappears.'
'There is something I've never said to you before.'
Strength infused the middle-aged man's grip as he clasped his shoulder.
'I am proud of you. Thank you for growing up so well.'
'Thank you. Uncle. No... Father.'
His smile was radiant, and moisture welled in the corners of his eyes.
As a single tear trailed down his lined cheek to the podium, another memory emerged.
'Is anybody there?'
On a balmy spring day, he found himself at a quaint flower shop. Peering inside, surrounded by a riot of colors, she came toward him.
'Welcome!'
Her step was light, her eyes keen as a cat's.
Her voice rang with vivacity and beauty...
Now a man, far removed from his boyhood, he felt his heart skip.
'Sir?'
'No, I, that is... I've, um, come to buy flowers.'
'For your parents? Or for a lover?'
'F-for my parents. Well, not exactly parents, but the uncle who raised me...'
'Hmm. I see. But you speak so formally. Are you by any chance a soldier?'
'No, not exactly...'
It was an odd memory. His speech stumbled, his vision gradually fading to white.
When he came to, he was clutching a bouquet of vibrant flowers, standing bewildered in a hospital room.
'You. I told you it's just a mild pneumonia. There was no need to come... But what is that?'
At the question from the middle-aged man, Wei Feng-Hu, his response was dreamlike.
'It's flowers.'
'Is that supposed to be a get-well gift?'
'Yes.'
'So you're telling me that you brought chrysanthemums as my get-well gift?' [Note: flower girl done did Lei Fei dirty. While chrysanthemums do not directly symbolize death in many Asian cultures, white chrysanthemums are often associated with praying and funerals in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures.]
'Uh... yes?'
'Such an ungrateful bastard! Hey, you bastard!'
Swish! Swack!
Laughter escaped him as he was struck with the bouquet, and he couldn’t contain a chuckle at his own blunder, his thoughts drifting back to the girl as lovely as the chrysanthemums.
After that, his visits to the flower shop became a daily ritual.
'Ah, hello!'
'Welcome... Oh, you've come again?'
'Haha.'
'It's the chrysanthemums, right? The pure white ones.'
Spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Over the course of a year, their dynamic had evolved beyond merely that of a shopkeeper and customer.
'I have something to say.'
'What is it?'
'Will you marry me?'
'…Ah.'
'I'll make you happy.'
This memory lingered the longest of any thus far.
After a silence that seemed to stretch for decades, she finally responded.
'I have something to say too.'
'No, first you should answer…'
'I'm pregnant.'
'What?'
Thump, thump thump. Thump thump thump!
His heart raced uncontrollably, and the Black Knight writhed in agony.
'Ah, aah, aaaah!'
His head felt as though it was bursting, as if his very being was being compressed.
Amid this unimaginable pain, another memory emerged.
'Wah, waah waah!'
'Is this child...'
'Congratulations on becoming a father, darling.'
The birth of a new life. And then growth.
'Dada. Dadada!'
'Darling. Darling! Did you hear that? He's already calling for dad, could our child be a genius?'
'Could you change the diaper?'
'Just wait a moment. I want to hear it again.'
'Dada, mama!'
'Hahaha! Yes! We are your dad and mom!'
The day the baby first managed to roll over, crawl on all fours, and then walk...
The man felt as though he possessed the whole world.
Yet, these idyllic days soon morphed into a nightmare.
'The magical power levels have surged in the Gaoping District!'
'Gaoping District? Keep trying to contact them and prepare the 2nd Regiment for deployment just in case.'
'Sir, the communications have been cut off.'
'What?'
Disaster struck without forewarning.
The man quickly rallied his troops and moved toward the epicenter of chaos, facing a scene beyond belief.
'Kyaooooo!'
'Everyone, run... Cough!'
Crash! Boom!
Flames engulfed the once-serene city sky, as hordes of monsters ravaged the populace below.
Amidst cries of agony and death, the man unsheathed his sword.
'Public Security Force!'
Tssss!
The aura blade encircling his weapon shimmered brilliantly.
At his command, roughly a thousand Hunters echoed back with a resounding roar.
They stood as humanity’s shield and protectors, unable to retreat.
'Wipe them all out!'
'Long live the People's Republic of China!'
Adorned in armor bearing the red five-starred flag, they surged forward like a tide, spreading not foam but blood.
'Be annihilated by the flame of terror, Fire Rain.'
Keening.
Beneath a dark, smoldering sky, amidst a downpour of fire, the man's thoughts turned to his beloved wife and five-year-old daughter.
Then, he faced 'that creature.'
'If you had run, you might have lived.'
'I will kill you.'
'You are noble. What is your name, human?'
'I am...'
* * *
"...Lei Fei?"
At the sound of Jin Tae-Kyung's voice piercing his ears, the Black Knight’s body tensed.
The barrier that had contained his past crumbled, and his life began to reassemble itself.
Memories of his thirty-six years as a human flooded his vision.
Amidst the turmoil and agony in the Black Knight’s mind, a commanding roar echoed.
The dim red light in his eyes ignited with renewed intensity.
Tremendous magical power surged forth from the body of Lei Fei, or rather, the Black Knight, who had fallen from sustaining strikes.
Kwaaaa!
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Chapter 400
From the moment he first crossed swords with Jin Tae-Kyung, the Black Knight instinctively knew.
'He's strong.'
The adversary before him was undoubtedly formidable. Even with every ounce of his strength, victory remained uncertain; he was facing someone of equal or superior might.
As they matched each blow for blow, his realization deepened.
'This is going to be a tough fight.'
Yet, neither fear nor retreat took hold within the Black Knight.
He served his Monarch with unwavering loyalty, driven by a mission to execute his sovereign's will.
They were titans clashing, where even a minor edge could pivot the outcome of battle.
'If I don't give up, an opportunity will come.'
The Black Knight clung to this belief.
It was an adage he’d recited since childhood, one that had carried him through countless conflicts and forged his strength.
'...I did?'
Confusion clouded his thoughts; his movements became erratic.
His adversary was too skilled to overlook such a lapse.
Swoosh, scrape!
The spear's blade tore through decaying flesh.
Bang!
A burst of blue flame engulfed his chest.
Amidst the scorching blaze, the Black Knight registered a feeling: pain.
'What is this...?'
It wasn’t the pain that baffled him, but the odd familiarity of this alien sensation.
'These memories... what on earth are they?'
His chest pulsed with pain, his head throbbed.
With each relentless strike that forced him back, flashes of an unknown person’s life raced before him.
'This can't be!'
'The Mana Adaptability score is incredibly high. It's the highest ever recorded!'
'We need to enroll him in the Chinese Training Program immediately!'
Figures clad in pristine white clothes buzzed with enthusiasm, while a middle-aged man in a stern, dark uniform observed.
'Chinese Training Program? Are you suggesting we raise this child to be a Hunter?'
'Of course, it must be so. This child is only thirteen years old and already has a Mana Adaptability score comparable to Fei Chen. He has enough potential to become an S-rank Hunter, or even the best in our nation!'
'I refuse.'
'W-what?'
'No, Lieutenant General Wei. What do you mean? This child is...'
'Enough.'
The middle-aged man’s voice was measured and quiet.
'He's my only nephew. What I promised my sister was to make him happy, not to turn him into a Hunter and put him in danger.'
'Awakened Hunter is a noble profession. If this child becomes an S-rank Hunter, it will be a blessing for everyone!'
'I know how noble their work is. But that's also how my brother-in-law...'
He paused, shaking his head.
'Whatever you say, my decision won't change. If there weren't orders from above, he wouldn't have even been tested. We'll leave now, so please handle things on your own.'
'Lieutenant General Wei, Lieutenant General Wei!'
Ignoring the shouts behind him, the middle-aged man walked over with a strained smile and reached out his hand.
'You've waited a long time, right? Let's go now.'
The Black Knight, or rather, the owner of the memories, took the middle-aged man’s hand.
A tiny, pale hand.
Soon, a youthful voice broke the silence.
'Uncle.'
'Hmm?'
'I want to become a Hunter.'
In that moment, a tumult of emotions played across the middle-aged man’s face.
He bit his lip, watching silently for a long moment before exhaling a worried sigh as faces alight with optimism approached from behind.
'The Chinese Training Program is a project crafted with great care. It is thoroughly safe and highly effective. Wu Hei-Xing of the same age is also doing well.'
'If the child changes his mind, we will stop at any time.'
The most senior among them laid a hand on the middle-aged man’s shoulder and said,
'Please trust us and leave him in our care, Lieutenant General Wei Feng-Hu.'
Wei Feng-Hu, Wei Feng-Hu...
The name resounded endlessly within the Black Knight’s mind, a name deeply cherished and profoundly missed.
Bang!
Was the pain in his chest from the blow he had received, or was it from something more profound?
As the Black Knight staggered, another memory surfaced before his eyes.
'Do you think you're the best because the adults praise you?'
A boy clad in a black suit, bow tie, and polished shoes stared at him with piercing eyes.
'Don't be mistaken. I'm the best. You're next in line!'
The Black Knight's vision tilted, and then a naive voice flowed out.
'Alright. Let's go with that.'
'What?'
'I'm fine with being second. Third is okay too, and I don't mind even being last.'
The boy with the sharp expression gaped.
'Are you stupid? Do you want to be worse than Jang Wei, who's currently the worst in the training camp?' [Note: this was one of the Hunters we met in Chapter 391.]
'But Jang Wei is kind and helps others too, right? He'll make a great Hunter.'
'Y-you're mocking me, aren't you?'
'No, not really. I just do whatever you like... Ouch!'
Thud!
Within moments, he had overpowered the boy who had lunged at him unexpectedly. The boy squirmed under his hold, yelling,
'I'm the best! Wu Hei-Xing is the best at everything!'
As one memory faded, another rose. It was as if someone was calmly throwing stones into a tranquil pond.
The Black Knight's mind was continually disturbed by these unknown recollections.
'Top trainee, ..., step forward.'
A handful of individuals occupied the expansive area.
Somehow, he found himself moving automatically at the call, which he barely registered.
Step. Step.
His stride was steady and purposeful, his field-of-view more elevated than before.
Now a young man, he approached an elder in uniform who affixed a medal to his chest.
A familiar face from his earliest memories whispered,
'Will you not regret this?'
'I have no regrets. I haven't before, and I won't in the future.'
'Most people will never know of your existence. Perhaps you might have to live like a shadow all your life.'
'I learned that another name for a Hunter is a guardian. Just because I'm not seen doesn't mean my honor disappears.'
'There is something I've never said to you before.'
Strength infused the middle-aged man's grip as he clasped his shoulder.
'I am proud of you. Thank you for growing up so well.'
'Thank you. Uncle. No... Father.'
His smile was radiant, and moisture welled in the corners of his eyes.
As a single tear trailed down his lined cheek to the podium, another memory emerged.
'Is anybody there?'
On a balmy spring day, he found himself at a quaint flower shop. Peering inside, surrounded by a riot of colors, she came toward him.
'Welcome!'
Her step was light, her eyes keen as a cat's.
Her voice rang with vivacity and beauty...
Now a man, far removed from his boyhood, he felt his heart skip.
'Sir?'
'No, I, that is... I've, um, come to buy flowers.'
'For your parents? Or for a lover?'
'F-for my parents. Well, not exactly parents, but the uncle who raised me...'
'Hmm. I see. But you speak so formally. Are you by any chance a soldier?'
'No, not exactly...'
It was an odd memory. His speech stumbled, his vision gradually fading to white.
When he came to, he was clutching a bouquet of vibrant flowers, standing bewildered in a hospital room.
'You. I told you it's just a mild pneumonia. There was no need to come... But what is that?'
At the question from the middle-aged man, Wei Feng-Hu, his response was dreamlike.
'It's flowers.'
'Is that supposed to be a get-well gift?'
'Yes.'
'So you're telling me that you brought chrysanthemums as my get-well gift?' [Note: flower girl done did Lei Fei dirty. While chrysanthemums do not directly symbolize death in many Asian cultures, white chrysanthemums are often associated with praying and funerals in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures.]
'Uh... yes?'
'Such an ungrateful bastard! Hey, you bastard!'
Swish! Swack!
Laughter escaped him as he was struck with the bouquet, and he couldn’t contain a chuckle at his own blunder, his thoughts drifting back to the girl as lovely as the chrysanthemums.
After that, his visits to the flower shop became a daily ritual.
'Ah, hello!'
'Welcome... Oh, you've come again?'
'Haha.'
'It's the chrysanthemums, right? The pure white ones.'
Spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Over the course of a year, their dynamic had evolved beyond merely that of a shopkeeper and customer.
'I have something to say.'
'What is it?'
'Will you marry me?'
'…Ah.'
'I'll make you happy.'
This memory lingered the longest of any thus far.
After a silence that seemed to stretch for decades, she finally responded.
'I have something to say too.'
'No, first you should answer…'
'I'm pregnant.'
'What?'
Thump, thump thump. Thump thump thump!
His heart raced uncontrollably, and the Black Knight writhed in agony.
'Ah, aah, aaaah!'
His head felt as though it was bursting, as if his very being was being compressed.
Amid this unimaginable pain, another memory emerged.
'Wah, waah waah!'
'Is this child...'
'Congratulations on becoming a father, darling.'
The birth of a new life. And then growth.
'Dada. Dadada!'
'Darling. Darling! Did you hear that? He's already calling for dad, could our child be a genius?'
'Could you change the diaper?'
'Just wait a moment. I want to hear it again.'
'Dada, mama!'
'Hahaha! Yes! We are your dad and mom!'
The day the baby first managed to roll over, crawl on all fours, and then walk...
The man felt as though he possessed the whole world.
Yet, these idyllic days soon morphed into a nightmare.
'The magical power levels have surged in the Gaoping District!'
'Gaoping District? Keep trying to contact them and prepare the 2nd Regiment for deployment just in case.'
'Sir, the communications have been cut off.'
'What?'
Disaster struck without forewarning.
The man quickly rallied his troops and moved toward the epicenter of chaos, facing a scene beyond belief.
'Kyaooooo!'
'Everyone, run... Cough!'
Crash! Boom!
Flames engulfed the once-serene city sky, as hordes of monsters ravaged the populace below.
Amidst cries of agony and death, the man unsheathed his sword.
'Public Security Force!'
Tssss!
The aura blade encircling his weapon shimmered brilliantly.
At his command, roughly a thousand Hunters echoed back with a resounding roar.
They stood as humanity’s shield and protectors, unable to retreat.
'Wipe them all out!'
'Long live the People's Republic of China!'
Adorned in armor bearing the red five-starred flag, they surged forward like a tide, spreading not foam but blood.
'Be annihilated by the flame of terror, Fire Rain.'
Keening.
Beneath a dark, smoldering sky, amidst a downpour of fire, the man's thoughts turned to his beloved wife and five-year-old daughter.
Then, he faced 'that creature.'
'If you had run, you might have lived.'
'I will kill you.'
'You are noble. What is your name, human?'
'I am...'
* * *
"...Lei Fei?"
At the sound of Jin Tae-Kyung's voice piercing his ears, the Black Knight’s body tensed.
The barrier that had contained his past crumbled, and his life began to reassemble itself.
Memories of his thirty-six years as a human flooded his vision.
- I-I am...
Amidst the turmoil and agony in the Black Knight’s mind, a commanding roar echoed.
- You are my most faithful servant and the commander-in-chief of my legion. As your Monarch commands, fulfill your duty until you turn to ash!
- ...!
The dim red light in his eyes ignited with renewed intensity.
Tremendous magical power surged forth from the body of Lei Fei, or rather, the Black Knight, who had fallen from sustaining strikes.
Kwaaaa!
2024.04.25 16:10 soustersouster London 2024 - The Magic of Championship Start and a Low-Mileage Attempt at a Sub-2:30
### Race Information
* **Name:** TCS London Marathon 2024
* **Date:** 21st April 2024
* **Distance:** 26.2 miles
* **Location:** London, UK
* **Time:** 2:30:59
### Goals
Goal Description Completed?
-------------------------------
A PB (<2:36:00) *Yes*
B 2:29:59 *No*
### Splits
Mile Time
------------
1 5:42
2 5:40
3 5:37
4 5:41
5 5:35
6 5:37
7 5:38
8 5:39
9 5:44
10 5:42
11 5:34
12 5:41
13 5:40
14 5:32
15 5:33
16 5:36
17 5:39
18 5:39
19 ???
20 ???
21 5:43
22 5:47
23 5:54
24 5:56
25 6:11
26 5:49
### Training:
After a successful trip to Malaga, Spain in December to tackle a winter marathon (2:36:00 - see post history for race report), I took several weeks away from training over the festive / new year period to recover physically and mentally from the training block and focus on work & studies. I received news that my application for Championship Entry at London (sub-2:40) had been accepted and I was absolutely buzzing. Getting into London via the ballot in 2021 was the start of my running journey and I was excited to see how far I’d come from my 3:23:xx debut there as a complete newbie to running. As someone who was born and raised in the city, the London Marathon has always been special and for as long as I can remember, I had always spectated in person or followed on TV , despite not really having any interest in taking part myself. I have worked with an excellent coach since 2022 and we began the training block at the end of January. Through trial and error over past training blocks, we had decided that the best course of action for me this time was relatively low mileage, no double days and a consistent rest day every week. This approach had yielded great results in Malaga and was put in place mostly due to study / work commitments, but also a tendency for myself to get burned out from training too hard in previous blocks. While I ran a great time for Manchester Marathon 2023 (2:39) I found that running every single day and having several double days during the training block led to me not enjoying training, a general lack of motivation and constant niggling injuries. For London this year, the 10-week training block involved hitting 50-65 miles per week, consisting of 2 hard sessions on Tuesday & Thursday, a rest day on Friday and a long run on Sunday. A typical hard session would consist of 1 / 2 / 3 mile repeats with a ½ mile recovery jog, or a 5-10 mile chunk of marathon pace (5:40 min /mile) work sandwiched between a mile warmup/cooldown. The long run was mostly done at a steady pace (between 6-7min /mile pace) and several of them ended with 2-4 miles at marathon pace, just to get my legs used to hitting that pace when fatigued. Thankfully, the only niggling injury I managed to pick up was some inner ankle/arch of foot pain which I attributed to wearing Vaporfly 3 shoes too often (I was wearing them for all hard sessions and long runs). After discussing with my coach, we got rid of them for the 2 weeks before the race and I wore my Saucony Speed 3’s for all running during that time, the pain began to ease off and didn’t impact raceday. To hit a sub-2:30 I knew I would need to maintain a 5:43min /mile pace. To ensure that I slipped under that I decided that 5:40min / mile would be a reasonable target that could buy me valuable seconds if I were able to keep it up. All of my marathon pace sessions had been spent attempting to perfect those 5:40 miles, but I found that I always managed to go either slightly faster or slightly slower in training, so I decided that rather than fretting about live pace and a matter of seconds, I would predominantly run this race on feel and use the mile markers & good old fashioned manual splits to see me through.
### Pre-race:
I spent race week eagerly awaiting the big day while shaking off the maranoia fuelled worries in my head (I had convinced myself that I was getting ill and had developed some imaginary back pain). My raceday outfit was carefully curated and I was extremely excited for it to all come together. I had treated myself to a fancy pair of SOAR trail shorts because of their seemingly infinite amount of pockets to store gels, I bought a new pair of trusty socks for the race (Hilly brand ‘Marathon Fresh’) and my fiancé had surprised me with the premium SOAR version of my running club vest (Mornington Chasers) which fit like a dream. An essential raceday haircut on Thursday evening had me feeling great and oozing with confidence. The Vaporfly 3’s came out of the sinbin. I was ready for action. My fuelling strategy was to take a gel 5 minutes before starting, followed by another every 3 miles alongside a few sips of water at every aid station. After posting a picture on Strava of all those gels, I was given the label of ‘GI Champ’ for supposedly having enough of an iron stomach to take on 9 gels, as well as a Maurten 320 drink mix the evening before/morning of the race. Looking back, I am pretty sure that 9 is my absolute limit but I can’t see myself ever needing any more than that in the future anyway. I used a mixture of Maurten & Hi5 brand gels, with two of them containing caffeine, which were to be taken early on in the race. For the first time ever, I actually got a decent night’s sleep on racecday eve and woke up at 5:30am for a breakfast of toast, PB & honey along with a cup of builder’s tea. I sipped the Maurten drink mix on the tube journey to London Bridge, where we changed trains and got on an insanely packed train to Blackheath. I was excited to experience the Championship start area and was pleased that the insane crowds started to thin out as we turned away from the Blue starting pen to head towards it. What I was greeted with was rather underwhelming at first, as it looked like a smaller version of any other starting pen I had ever been to. However, it was a nice luxury to have queue-free urinals and access to plenty of bottled water and Lucozade Sport. Through the fence I could see the likes of Emile Cairess and his pacer for the day, Phil Sesemann doing their strides in their ‘VIP’ area and this really got the adrenaline pumping as I could hear the elite women’s starting gun firing in the distance. The real Championship magic began when it was finally time to head towards the start line. Wanting to get the full experience, I made it near the front as we lined up and it was absolutely insane to be standing meters behind of some of the finest marathon talent in the world (Bekele, Tola, Cairess etc) as they received their introductions from the announcer. We shuffled forward as the beating heart sound was being pumped from the speakers and before I knew it, legendary GB Olympian Kelly Holmes had smashed the start button and off we flew.
### Race:
The first few miles are ever so slightly downhill, so it is very easy to get carried away, however within seconds I could overhear several surrounding runners revealing that they were also attempting to hit my goal time, so I settled in behind a couple of Clapham Chasers vests and tried not to let them out of my sight. To my delight, I noticed that all the mile markers had the live gun time displayed on them, so pretty early onwards I decided that I wasn’t going to look at my watch at all. I knew that sooner or later the GPS was going to get skewed by the tunnels and skyscrapers, so there was no point in getting used to checking the bleeps on my watch. My plan was to mentally add 5min 40sec to the time displayed on each mile marker and try and reach the next one bang on time, this gave me something to think about and settle my nerves. I went through the first 5km in 17:42 and was pretty happy with that. In my head I had split up the race into three sections: 2 x 10 mile races & 1 x 10km race. For the entirety of the first 10 mile ‘race’ I was absolutely cruising and enjoying the atmosphere. The only negative in this part was the fact that while attempting to toss aside a bottle of water at an aid station, I accidentally threw away one of my gels. While not a cataclysmic fuck up, I was irritated as I knew I would now have to rely on one of the Lucozade Sport gels provided at certain ‘fuel stations’, which is not ideal as I’d never tried them before. However, I figured that I could save that one until the very end and deal with the potential shit-storm (pardon the pun) later. My fiancé always amazes me with how she manages to spectate so efficiently at all of my races. After dropping me at the start, she had a great spot on mile 9 and seeing her screaming my name was the icing on the cake while feeling on top of the world this early on in the race. The second 10 mile ‘race’ went fantastic and I went through halfway in 1:14:46. I knew this was cutting it very fine but I would rather that then go any faster and run out of steam. My club had set up a cheer station at some point in the second 10 mile ‘race’ and their noise and energy was amazing when I flew past them twice on the out-and-back. It was at mile 21 where my care-free cruising came to an end and the wheels started to fall off. At first it was my left calf that suddenly pinged and started to cramp, shortly followed by more of the same on my right. This exact problem occurred in Malaga and I was dreading it happening again. While not completely debilitating, the cramps meant that I had to slow down a tad, which was not ideal but meant that rather than stopping to stretch like I had seen others resort to, I could at least grit my teeth and hammer out those final few miles. Anyone who knows anything about London knows that once you leave Canary Wharf and jump on the straight road towards Embankment, the crowds are insane. I had anticipated my cramping issue to rear its ugly head and knew that on this last 5 mile stretch I would be deep inside the pain cave. To combat this, I had asked my friends and family who were spectating to position themselves between miles 23 – 26 in order to give me a much needed boost. Seeing familiar faces always helps but after taking one mouthful of the untested gel, the taste was foul and I instantly had to spit it out and rely on whatever pitiful amount of glycogen I had left in the tank to see me through. As I passed the Eye and approached Big Ben, I glanced at my watch for the first time in the whole race just to check wether the sub-2:30 was still on. I was disheartened to see that it looked just out of my grasp and I started to slow down. It didn’t take long for me to pull my finger out and shake that feeling off however, as I decided that 2:30 sounds a hell of a lot better than 2:31. This revelation got me sprinting around that right turn at Buckingham Palace, down the mall and I staggered across the line in 2:30:59.
### Post-race:
I hadn’t hit my A-goal but I wasn’t going to let that spoil the party. I had shaved 5 minutes off my personal best and couldn’t be disappointed. Grabbed my medal and hobbled over to my family for the obligatory pictures and celebrations. We decided to head back home to north west London for some celebratory pints that ended up being one too many. A very sore and hungover day at work on Monday followed, where many electrolyte drinks and ibuprofen were consumed. My wedding is taking place later this year as well as the final parts of my study, so for the remainder of the year I will likely only be able to run casually and not train hard. However we all know that is absolute bullshit and I will have signed up for a new race within a few months! Who knows what the future holds, if I can somehow get rid of those cramps, how great I felt for most of that race leaves me confident of shooting for somewhere in the low 2:20s next time, maybe even a 2:19 further down the line, why the hell not!?
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* **Name:** TCS London Marathon 2024
* **Date:** 21st April 2024
* **Distance:** 26.2 miles
* **Location:** London, UK
* **Time:** 2:30:59
### Goals
Goal Description Completed?
-------------------------------
A PB (<2:36:00) *Yes*
B 2:29:59 *No*
### Splits
Mile Time
------------
1 5:42
2 5:40
3 5:37
4 5:41
5 5:35
6 5:37
7 5:38
8 5:39
9 5:44
10 5:42
11 5:34
12 5:41
13 5:40
14 5:32
15 5:33
16 5:36
17 5:39
18 5:39
19 ???
20 ???
21 5:43
22 5:47
23 5:54
24 5:56
25 6:11
26 5:49
### Training:
After a successful trip to Malaga, Spain in December to tackle a winter marathon (2:36:00 - see post history for race report), I took several weeks away from training over the festive / new year period to recover physically and mentally from the training block and focus on work & studies. I received news that my application for Championship Entry at London (sub-2:40) had been accepted and I was absolutely buzzing. Getting into London via the ballot in 2021 was the start of my running journey and I was excited to see how far I’d come from my 3:23:xx debut there as a complete newbie to running. As someone who was born and raised in the city, the London Marathon has always been special and for as long as I can remember, I had always spectated in person or followed on TV , despite not really having any interest in taking part myself. I have worked with an excellent coach since 2022 and we began the training block at the end of January. Through trial and error over past training blocks, we had decided that the best course of action for me this time was relatively low mileage, no double days and a consistent rest day every week. This approach had yielded great results in Malaga and was put in place mostly due to study / work commitments, but also a tendency for myself to get burned out from training too hard in previous blocks. While I ran a great time for Manchester Marathon 2023 (2:39) I found that running every single day and having several double days during the training block led to me not enjoying training, a general lack of motivation and constant niggling injuries. For London this year, the 10-week training block involved hitting 50-65 miles per week, consisting of 2 hard sessions on Tuesday & Thursday, a rest day on Friday and a long run on Sunday. A typical hard session would consist of 1 / 2 / 3 mile repeats with a ½ mile recovery jog, or a 5-10 mile chunk of marathon pace (5:40 min /mile) work sandwiched between a mile warmup/cooldown. The long run was mostly done at a steady pace (between 6-7min /mile pace) and several of them ended with 2-4 miles at marathon pace, just to get my legs used to hitting that pace when fatigued. Thankfully, the only niggling injury I managed to pick up was some inner ankle/arch of foot pain which I attributed to wearing Vaporfly 3 shoes too often (I was wearing them for all hard sessions and long runs). After discussing with my coach, we got rid of them for the 2 weeks before the race and I wore my Saucony Speed 3’s for all running during that time, the pain began to ease off and didn’t impact raceday. To hit a sub-2:30 I knew I would need to maintain a 5:43min /mile pace. To ensure that I slipped under that I decided that 5:40min / mile would be a reasonable target that could buy me valuable seconds if I were able to keep it up. All of my marathon pace sessions had been spent attempting to perfect those 5:40 miles, but I found that I always managed to go either slightly faster or slightly slower in training, so I decided that rather than fretting about live pace and a matter of seconds, I would predominantly run this race on feel and use the mile markers & good old fashioned manual splits to see me through.
### Pre-race:
I spent race week eagerly awaiting the big day while shaking off the maranoia fuelled worries in my head (I had convinced myself that I was getting ill and had developed some imaginary back pain). My raceday outfit was carefully curated and I was extremely excited for it to all come together. I had treated myself to a fancy pair of SOAR trail shorts because of their seemingly infinite amount of pockets to store gels, I bought a new pair of trusty socks for the race (Hilly brand ‘Marathon Fresh’) and my fiancé had surprised me with the premium SOAR version of my running club vest (Mornington Chasers) which fit like a dream. An essential raceday haircut on Thursday evening had me feeling great and oozing with confidence. The Vaporfly 3’s came out of the sinbin. I was ready for action. My fuelling strategy was to take a gel 5 minutes before starting, followed by another every 3 miles alongside a few sips of water at every aid station. After posting a picture on Strava of all those gels, I was given the label of ‘GI Champ’ for supposedly having enough of an iron stomach to take on 9 gels, as well as a Maurten 320 drink mix the evening before/morning of the race. Looking back, I am pretty sure that 9 is my absolute limit but I can’t see myself ever needing any more than that in the future anyway. I used a mixture of Maurten & Hi5 brand gels, with two of them containing caffeine, which were to be taken early on in the race. For the first time ever, I actually got a decent night’s sleep on racecday eve and woke up at 5:30am for a breakfast of toast, PB & honey along with a cup of builder’s tea. I sipped the Maurten drink mix on the tube journey to London Bridge, where we changed trains and got on an insanely packed train to Blackheath. I was excited to experience the Championship start area and was pleased that the insane crowds started to thin out as we turned away from the Blue starting pen to head towards it. What I was greeted with was rather underwhelming at first, as it looked like a smaller version of any other starting pen I had ever been to. However, it was a nice luxury to have queue-free urinals and access to plenty of bottled water and Lucozade Sport. Through the fence I could see the likes of Emile Cairess and his pacer for the day, Phil Sesemann doing their strides in their ‘VIP’ area and this really got the adrenaline pumping as I could hear the elite women’s starting gun firing in the distance. The real Championship magic began when it was finally time to head towards the start line. Wanting to get the full experience, I made it near the front as we lined up and it was absolutely insane to be standing meters behind of some of the finest marathon talent in the world (Bekele, Tola, Cairess etc) as they received their introductions from the announcer. We shuffled forward as the beating heart sound was being pumped from the speakers and before I knew it, legendary GB Olympian Kelly Holmes had smashed the start button and off we flew.
### Race:
The first few miles are ever so slightly downhill, so it is very easy to get carried away, however within seconds I could overhear several surrounding runners revealing that they were also attempting to hit my goal time, so I settled in behind a couple of Clapham Chasers vests and tried not to let them out of my sight. To my delight, I noticed that all the mile markers had the live gun time displayed on them, so pretty early onwards I decided that I wasn’t going to look at my watch at all. I knew that sooner or later the GPS was going to get skewed by the tunnels and skyscrapers, so there was no point in getting used to checking the bleeps on my watch. My plan was to mentally add 5min 40sec to the time displayed on each mile marker and try and reach the next one bang on time, this gave me something to think about and settle my nerves. I went through the first 5km in 17:42 and was pretty happy with that. In my head I had split up the race into three sections: 2 x 10 mile races & 1 x 10km race. For the entirety of the first 10 mile ‘race’ I was absolutely cruising and enjoying the atmosphere. The only negative in this part was the fact that while attempting to toss aside a bottle of water at an aid station, I accidentally threw away one of my gels. While not a cataclysmic fuck up, I was irritated as I knew I would now have to rely on one of the Lucozade Sport gels provided at certain ‘fuel stations’, which is not ideal as I’d never tried them before. However, I figured that I could save that one until the very end and deal with the potential shit-storm (pardon the pun) later. My fiancé always amazes me with how she manages to spectate so efficiently at all of my races. After dropping me at the start, she had a great spot on mile 9 and seeing her screaming my name was the icing on the cake while feeling on top of the world this early on in the race. The second 10 mile ‘race’ went fantastic and I went through halfway in 1:14:46. I knew this was cutting it very fine but I would rather that then go any faster and run out of steam. My club had set up a cheer station at some point in the second 10 mile ‘race’ and their noise and energy was amazing when I flew past them twice on the out-and-back. It was at mile 21 where my care-free cruising came to an end and the wheels started to fall off. At first it was my left calf that suddenly pinged and started to cramp, shortly followed by more of the same on my right. This exact problem occurred in Malaga and I was dreading it happening again. While not completely debilitating, the cramps meant that I had to slow down a tad, which was not ideal but meant that rather than stopping to stretch like I had seen others resort to, I could at least grit my teeth and hammer out those final few miles. Anyone who knows anything about London knows that once you leave Canary Wharf and jump on the straight road towards Embankment, the crowds are insane. I had anticipated my cramping issue to rear its ugly head and knew that on this last 5 mile stretch I would be deep inside the pain cave. To combat this, I had asked my friends and family who were spectating to position themselves between miles 23 – 26 in order to give me a much needed boost. Seeing familiar faces always helps but after taking one mouthful of the untested gel, the taste was foul and I instantly had to spit it out and rely on whatever pitiful amount of glycogen I had left in the tank to see me through. As I passed the Eye and approached Big Ben, I glanced at my watch for the first time in the whole race just to check wether the sub-2:30 was still on. I was disheartened to see that it looked just out of my grasp and I started to slow down. It didn’t take long for me to pull my finger out and shake that feeling off however, as I decided that 2:30 sounds a hell of a lot better than 2:31. This revelation got me sprinting around that right turn at Buckingham Palace, down the mall and I staggered across the line in 2:30:59.
### Post-race:
I hadn’t hit my A-goal but I wasn’t going to let that spoil the party. I had shaved 5 minutes off my personal best and couldn’t be disappointed. Grabbed my medal and hobbled over to my family for the obligatory pictures and celebrations. We decided to head back home to north west London for some celebratory pints that ended up being one too many. A very sore and hungover day at work on Monday followed, where many electrolyte drinks and ibuprofen were consumed. My wedding is taking place later this year as well as the final parts of my study, so for the remainder of the year I will likely only be able to run casually and not train hard. However we all know that is absolute bullshit and I will have signed up for a new race within a few months! Who knows what the future holds, if I can somehow get rid of those cramps, how great I felt for most of that race leaves me confident of shooting for somewhere in the low 2:20s next time, maybe even a 2:19 further down the line, why the hell not!?
Made with a new [race report generator](http://sfdavis.com/racereports/) created by herumph.
2024.04.25 07:51 immapotahto bio kid got in everywhere he applied and cannot decide for his life
Demographics~ Gender: male Residence: bay area Type of School: huge public hs Intended Major(s): computational biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, statistics
my dream major would be structural biology w/ a minor in stats, but no university on the planet has a program similar to that topic. honestly, most universities barely have phd programs for it. my entire college application process was really a battle to find the perfect major and school to prepare me for a PhD in the field while also providing some semblance of a career in case i quit after a bachelor's. as much as i love scientific research right now, there is no guarantee i will after a couple years of college.
Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.28/4.00 w/ a 3.88 GPA at my local CC Rank (or percentile): top decile baby! Grade Boosted Classes: 7 AP / 2 Honors / 8 Dual Enrollment Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP Stats, H Physics, Gov/Econ, Engineering Des&Dev, ERWC + MWH, Astronomy, English @ CC
EDIT: I am in-state for all California schools and I have Canadian citizenship
Standardized Testing SAT I: 1540 (770RW, 770M) AP: bio (self-study), chem, calc AB, ush were 5s, spanish lang was a 4 Extracurriculars/Activities:
Essays: UC PIQs (1.5 months): I did my best to let each essay convey a completely separate aspect of myself, no matter how much I wanted to yap about SciOly. I felt like these went pretty well, but my leadership PIQ definitely could have used more work. Leadership: solving a dilemma between teams as the captain of my scioly team Creativity: learning to appreciate mistakes in the creative process with website design Talent/Skill: the ability to explain difficult topics to a wide variety of audiences Significant Challenge: overcoming my vocal disorder
CommonApp (2 weeks): The best essay I have written. I do not know what drugs I was on when I wrote this, but I definitely will not write a better piece of writing for a long time. The premise combined two themes: growing up without my parent's culture and my discovery, and consequent love, of the messiness of the scientific process.
Acceptances:
Deciding: yeah, i was not expecting this at all. i actually have no idea how i am supposed to come even close to making a decision between these amazing schools in just 6 days time. i think i have narrowed it down to 5 choices, but let me know if i should consider any of my other options before i decline them!
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my dream major would be structural biology w/ a minor in stats, but no university on the planet has a program similar to that topic. honestly, most universities barely have phd programs for it. my entire college application process was really a battle to find the perfect major and school to prepare me for a PhD in the field while also providing some semblance of a career in case i quit after a bachelor's. as much as i love scientific research right now, there is no guarantee i will after a couple years of college.
Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.28/4.00 w/ a 3.88 GPA at my local CC Rank (or percentile): top decile baby! Grade Boosted Classes: 7 AP / 2 Honors / 8 Dual Enrollment Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP Stats, H Physics, Gov/Econ, Engineering Des&Dev, ERWC + MWH, Astronomy, English @ CC
EDIT: I am in-state for all California schools and I have Canadian citizenship
Standardized Testing SAT I: 1540 (770RW, 770M) AP: bio (self-study), chem, calc AB, ush were 5s, spanish lang was a 4 Extracurriculars/Activities:
- scioly team captain, test writer, coach, competitor (this program chewed me up and spit me out, but i still love it :)
- volunteer worker at local science museum
- lab intern @ biotech company and local uni
- environmental sustainability internship
- hobbies like my bio club, journaling, cloud-watching (this sounds silly but learning to read the shapes and patterns of cloud formations and using them to predict what the sky will look like soon is the coolest thing ever), making silly websites w/ my middling HTML/CSS skills, gardening, etc.
- usabo semifinalist
- 40+ scioly medals w/ 1 from nats (will come w/ me to college)
- CC highest honors list
- national merit finalist
Essays: UC PIQs (1.5 months): I did my best to let each essay convey a completely separate aspect of myself, no matter how much I wanted to yap about SciOly. I felt like these went pretty well, but my leadership PIQ definitely could have used more work. Leadership: solving a dilemma between teams as the captain of my scioly team Creativity: learning to appreciate mistakes in the creative process with website design Talent/Skill: the ability to explain difficult topics to a wide variety of audiences Significant Challenge: overcoming my vocal disorder
CommonApp (2 weeks): The best essay I have written. I do not know what drugs I was on when I wrote this, but I definitely will not write a better piece of writing for a long time. The premise combined two themes: growing up without my parent's culture and my discovery, and consequent love, of the messiness of the scientific process.
Acceptances:
- UCSC bioinformatics + biomolecular engineering
- UCSB pre-biochemistry
- UCI pre-chemistry w/ honors
- UCD biochemistry and molecular biology
- UCSD biology w/ spec. in bioinformatics
- UCLA computational and systems biology
- UCB chemical biology
- cal poly slo materials engineering (i had a phase)
- uminnesota biochemistry 104k w/ honors
- pitt computational biology 60k w/ honors
- cwru w/ 152k
- mcgill bioengineering
- ubc engineering
- uoft physical sciences
- uottawa biochemistry/chemE w/ 4k
- queen's engineering w/ 7k
Deciding: yeah, i was not expecting this at all. i actually have no idea how i am supposed to come even close to making a decision between these amazing schools in just 6 days time. i think i have narrowed it down to 5 choices, but let me know if i should consider any of my other options before i decline them!
- mcgill bioengineering
- because i was born there, tuition is only around 3.5k USD the first year and almost zero the following years + housing/food is way cheaper than california! no student loan debt and my parents can breathe a huge sigh of relief
- allows me to take summer terms, get a way nicer dorm, eat out more, study abroad, stay an extra semester, the possibilities are endless!
- EDIT: room and board for the first year is around 12k USD due to how expensive the dorms are the first year, but that number quickly falls to around 8k once i get my own apartment total cost is 15.5k for first year and 8.5k USD all other years
- arguably the most prestigious university in canada with an insane medical school and AI/machine learning research wet dream for computational structural biology lowkey
- professional engineering designation, a ton of design and research courses, and no GEs!
- miniscule medical focus and not pre-med friendly, which means i don't have to breathe the same air as premed pests!!
- downtown in a major city with an amazing public transit system!! i will lose my mind if i have to depend on cars for another 4 years
- really bad winters, interesting linguistic war, and extremely far from any friends/family except my grandparents
- the program takes 5 years to complete which is so long for an undergrad
- for god sakes it literally is entirely master's level classes the last two years i have no idea how am i going to do this
- program is really small and new, so it will be a lot easier to get to know my professors for LORs :)
- will pay me like 20k to get my master's too
- fighting for its life against the quebec government and is pretty underfunded so i have no idea what the future of mcgill will be
- it takes so much effort to transfer to literally any other program in case i change my mind (which i have done a quadrillion times)
- little to no flexibility in electives/minors/double majors because of super rigid curriculum
- because i was born there, tuition is only around 3.5k USD the first year and almost zero the following years + housing/food is way cheaper than california! no student loan debt and my parents can breathe a huge sigh of relief
- UCLA CaSB
- 26k will need to take federal loans (no private tho) and will likely place a financial strain on my family
- EDIT: i will likely have to take 20-25k total in federal loans
- has a much stronger focus on CS, which is way better for both my interest in computational structural biology + potentially becoming a SWE sellout
- minors and double majors in so many fields i am interested in!! they literally have a minor in structural biology i'm in love <3
- will have to fight my way through more GEs. i have 2/3 of them done but i would prefer to never take another again. especially more english classes oh my god
- weather, food, and guaranteed housing are really nice additional benefits!
- i hate how isolating the campus can be without a car however
- PREMED HELL WHY ARE THEY ALL HERE
- it is nice that there is a really good medical school right there for any biomedical research
- can finish in 3 years if i take summer CC classes and pray that my enrollment times don't screw me over
- can complete my masters in one extra year!
- my best friend is going here! some of my friends are going here so i won't be completely isolated in case i need social support
- way less travel costs!
- 26k will need to take federal loans (no private tho) and will likely place a financial strain on my family
- UCB ChemBio
- 31k will need to take federal + private loans w/ strain on family
- BUT i can commute after the first year and cal becomes my cheapest option. i would rather die than spend another 3 years living with my parents and battling my way on the freeway to berkeley, but money is money. there's also bart but its 50 minutes with a transfer :(
- has a much weaker focus on CS in exchange for a super in-depth education of biochemistry
- can focus on computational chemistry tho
- literally one of the best programs in the nation for chemistry?? super heavy on research and has great grad school outcomes
- literally has its own college for CoC smaller college feel
- i can just casually work with nobel prize winners???
- any concerns about safety, weather, and the bay area do not apply to me i literally live here
- same GE issue that UCLA suffers from, but to a lesser extent due to the CoC being a separate thing
- nonexistent travel costs and i can stay close to my sister!
- can easily finish in 3 years even without CC because of how little classes are required for some reason
- surrounded by biotech companies that love berkeley grads, though chemistry is not really an employable degree in that sense
- 31k will need to take federal + private loans w/ strain on family
- UBC Applied Sciences
- 7000 USD tuition and way more expensive living than montreal, BUT it is still under 20k USD and the co-op program will likely cover the difference
- if i was worried about mcgill taking 5 years, ubc w/ co-op is almost 6!
- the co-op program + the engineering degree will have the best earning potential after a bachelor out of any of my options
- EDIT: room and board is around 10k USD on campus, and i would prefer to stay on campus due to how bad the housing situation is in vancouver + the campus is isolated with a miniscule housing market
- slightly more GEs than McGill but still nothing compared to UCs
- the literal hunger games to get into your preferred engineering major
- has a top 3 engineering program in canada and a fantastic reputation in the pacific northwest, one of my favorite regions in the world :)
- i also have no idea if i like any other sort of engineering than biological. maybe chemical? the general first year would help but it might also be a pain in the ass if i discover engineering wasn't my thing
- oh the campus is also the prettiest campus i have ever seen. surrounded by beach on all three sides with the pacific ocean and a mountain range as its backdrop. search it up, you will not be disappointed!
- out of all of my options, this option fits my current interests the least
- the pacific northwest is known for being socially cold + i will have literally no one i know for hundreds of miles could be an impending social disaster
- UCSD Biology w/ Bioinformatics
- 29k similar situation to berkeley right now
- UCSD's bioinformatics program is the best in the world. full stop. if i want to really dive deep into bioinformatics and pursue it in grad school, ucsd is a no-brainer for opportunities it provides
- unfortunately, bioinformatics is much more genomics based and has little to no emphasis on structural biology, which is more a mathematical modeling subject, so ucsd is currently my last choice out of the 5
- the campus is gorgeous, likely has the best weather on earth, has a cool residential college system, and surrounded by a ton of biotech companies
- i honestly have not thought too much about ucsd after getting into ucb and ucla, but i still it deserves consideration so let me know if there's anything else i should keep in mind!
- program prestige is a much bigger deal than school prestige in most situations! this especially applies to canadian schools. the only reason why ucsd and ubc are still in consideration is solely because of the strength of their programs, not the relative "prestige" of the schools! choose the school that offers the best program for your needs, not the program with the fancier name
- this doesn't apply if the school is nice about transferring majors. almost every large public university is an ass about switching majors, especially in in-demand majors
- if you are in california, PLEASE DO CC CLASSES! UCs love them, your GPA loves them, and your wallet loves them. they are literally guaranteed to transfer and can get you out of so many classes you don't care about. please stop drooling over random APs and look at CC classes that actually interest you!
- only apply to schools that are within the realm of financial feasibility. do every single npc you can and use those numbers to decide whats possible and what isn't. i was originally going to apply to the ivy league, but i decided against it after seeing how much more expensive they would be
- ignore 99% of the advice you hear about ECs online. literally do what makes you happy and do it well! scioly carried my entire application because i love/hate it so much :)
2024.04.24 20:18 SanderWeeb Reina fans assemble! Looking to sell some collectibles :)
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2024.04.24 06:50 FateOfMuffins What we know about co-op so far
On May 11/12, 10th Anniversary will begin with the usual Anniversary Sugofest as well as a new game mode on the same day. Co-op is a new game mode where 2 players tackle a single supposedly RANDOM stage together in turns. You can play with a random player or set up rooms with passcodes to play with friends.
In these GF Sugos, you do not get the units you pulled immediately. Instead, you will be able to "stock" up on 5 multis of results, by picking and choosing the best pulls you get. At the end of the season, you will be able to obtain all of the 5x11 stocked pulls. These pulls will also award points based on rarity of units pulled, which will go into a ranking for more rewards (yes... they've made a ranking for gacha pulls LMAO).
There will also be GF Sugo Exclusives ("F2P" Legends?). I expect that in terms of grinding for GF pulls, priority number 1 will be to obtain the GF Sugo Exclusives, priority number 2 will be to obtain new characters for your account and priority number 3 will be the ranking. I do think this likely devalues the end of month PKA turtle Legends even more, as they will be available to be pulled in the GF Sugos (perhaps 3+ months delayed but they will be available), while other exclusives are exclusives.
From what we can tell in their version update video, the schedule will be as follows (note the GF Sugo is only available in the last month of the season):
According to the stage breakdowns, it appears there will be six difficulty levels:
The stages are supposed to be random - in which case I am unsure if you will be able to clear Infinitum Sea every run even if you do coordinate with a friend. It may be that the best strategy is to farm a lower difficulty stage (like we do in PKA) at 100% clear rate. It may be that clearing Infinitum Sea at 50% clear rate results in better rewards still. It may be that zombie teams are the way to go. We don't know.
To unlock a co-op captain, you can either use a co-op tome or level the unit to 150. If the unit is level 150, it will not require any additional materials to unlock co-op captain. A unit that is designated as co-op captain will have a changed co-op captain ability, special, passives and stats, as well as a LUCK stat (which is capped out at +100).
There are 5 possible co-op captain abilities, 1 for each type. Dual units use the type of the character on the left side of the icon. I do not know what happens when you swap dual units or even if they're swappable as co-op captain. There are 6 possible co-op specials, 1 for each PVP class. This makes a total of 30 different possible combinations of CA/special.
The passive is designated by the classes. It seems relatively minor (small resistance), so I don't think this is particularly important when selecting a co-op captain.
Breaking it down in more depth for each ability and upgrade materials (NOTE: YOU MUST FEED THESE MATERIALS THROUGH THE CO-OP MENU ONLY):
Co-op medals
Luck
Stats and Cotton Candy
Captain Ability
Special Abilities
For OtheNo Class, level 3 is sufficient
Attacker special doesn't seem important to level
Seems like the most important Defender upgrade is at level 3
For Healers, level 3 seems most important
Most important level for supporters seem to be level 4
Disrupters may simply be not good (delay immunity is so common), or it's sufficient to leave at level 1. If the enemy does allow delays then either level 2 or 5 is best.
Don't feed Legend dupes purely for LUCK. They stated luck is capped at 100, but they also stated that both your luck and your partner's will contribute to the rewards; it may be the case that you only need 50 each and you don't actually need to max out the luck. Or perhaps the luck drops are actually more common than you think and you'd much rather use those instead of feeding in an extra 26 Legend dupes or 36 total copies to max the luck stat. In the long term I doubt you'd want to feed dupes purely for luck.
You also just got 600/800 extra box space for free, you don't need to feed them to free up box space.
OK now that that's out of the way, IMO the ideal candidates to invest in for co-op captains are:
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Grand Feast Sugofest
In co-op, you will be grinding for Grand Feast (GF) stones, which will be a "F2P" currency used to pull in a seasonal "F2P" Grand Feast Sugofest. There will be 4 seasons in a year (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter), with 3 months of co-op stages for each season, as well as 4 GF Sugos. It appears that the GF gems for each season is a different color so you will not be able to carry over the gems you've grinded from season to season.In these GF Sugos, you do not get the units you pulled immediately. Instead, you will be able to "stock" up on 5 multis of results, by picking and choosing the best pulls you get. At the end of the season, you will be able to obtain all of the 5x11 stocked pulls. These pulls will also award points based on rarity of units pulled, which will go into a ranking for more rewards (yes... they've made a ranking for gacha pulls LMAO).
There will also be GF Sugo Exclusives ("F2P" Legends?). I expect that in terms of grinding for GF pulls, priority number 1 will be to obtain the GF Sugo Exclusives, priority number 2 will be to obtain new characters for your account and priority number 3 will be the ranking. I do think this likely devalues the end of month PKA turtle Legends even more, as they will be available to be pulled in the GF Sugos (perhaps 3+ months delayed but they will be available), while other exclusives are exclusives.
From what we can tell in their version update video, the schedule will be as follows (note the GF Sugo is only available in the last month of the season):
- Spring
- Co-op stages change monthly from March - May
- GF Sugo in May
- Summer
- Co-op stages change monthly from June - August
- GF Sugo in August
- Autumn
- Co-op stages change monthly from September - November
- GF Sugo in November
- Winter
- Co-op stages change monthly from December - February
- GF Sugo in February
Stage Breakdowns
Each month there will be boosted types and classes. For the first month, DEX/PSY/INT + FighteShooteCerebral units have boosted stats (I expect these will be the Anniversary units' types and classes), and that QCK/PSY enemies will be more common. They also mentioned that there will be "Trusty Characters", but they also mentioned that just owning the characters will give extra rewards, so it may not be the case like with current content that teambuilding is constrained to boosters.According to the stage breakdowns, it appears there will be six difficulty levels:
- Apprentice
- Captain
- Warlord
- Emperor
- King of Pirates
- Infinitum Sea
The stages are supposed to be random - in which case I am unsure if you will be able to clear Infinitum Sea every run even if you do coordinate with a friend. It may be that the best strategy is to farm a lower difficulty stage (like we do in PKA) at 100% clear rate. It may be that clearing Infinitum Sea at 50% clear rate results in better rewards still. It may be that zombie teams are the way to go. We don't know.
Co-op Captains + Upgrade Materials
From the videos and screenshots, it appears that 1 unit on the team will be designated a "co-op captain" (friend seems normal). I am unsure if you need to have a co-op captain or if you can just run a regular captain, but the important thing for grinding purposes is that the new LUCK stat is only active with a co-op captain, and LUCK affects the rewards you get.To unlock a co-op captain, you can either use a co-op tome or level the unit to 150. If the unit is level 150, it will not require any additional materials to unlock co-op captain. A unit that is designated as co-op captain will have a changed co-op captain ability, special, passives and stats, as well as a LUCK stat (which is capped out at +100).
There are 5 possible co-op captain abilities, 1 for each type. Dual units use the type of the character on the left side of the icon. I do not know what happens when you swap dual units or even if they're swappable as co-op captain. There are 6 possible co-op specials, 1 for each PVP class. This makes a total of 30 different possible combinations of CA/special.
The passive is designated by the classes. It seems relatively minor (small resistance), so I don't think this is particularly important when selecting a co-op captain.
Breaking it down in more depth for each ability and upgrade materials (NOTE: YOU MUST FEED THESE MATERIALS THROUGH THE CO-OP MENU ONLY):
Co-op medals
- New blue/red currency used for upgrades. Feeding in 1 material of any kind will cost 100 medals
Luck
- New luck drop currency increases the luck of a unit by 1.
- Dupes of RRs give 1 luck. Dupes of Legends give 2 luck.
- Luck maxes out at 100, with level 150 Legends having 48 luck as baseline
- Luck only applies for co-op captains and it will affect the rewards that both you and your partner obtains
Stats and Cotton Candy
- Co-op captains have stats based purely on their level, PVP class (so different characters with the same class will have the same stats) and CC.
- These stats ARE affected by CC but are NOT affected by other means like LB.
- Once the unit has at least +500 CC, you are then able to use more CC to further increase their co-op captain stats.
- You can add an additional +133 CC to each co-op captain stat, but this is more expensive than normal. It costs 10 CC to get +1 CC stat, so it actually costs 1330 CC per stat to max out a unit.
- Stats at level 150 without any CC:
| PVP Class | HP | ATK | RCV |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Class | 7900 | 2550 | 500 |
| Attacker | 7350 | 3150 | 385 |
| Defender | 8050 | 2450 | 455 |
| Healer | 7700 | 1750 | 630 |
| Supporter | 6500 | 2250 | 450 |
| Disrupter | 6350 | 2475 | 420 |
Captain Ability
- Upgraded with Medium Support Medallions
- A total of 100 medallions needed to reach level 5
- All characters will have the same co-op captain based only on the type
- Dual units type is based on the typing on the left side of the icon
- Diversifying to 5 co-op captain abilities may not be that urgent, as they are all at least partially rainbow
| Level | Captain Ability | Medallions Needed | Total Medallions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boosts ATK of [type] by 4.5x and HP of [type] by 1.25x. Boosts ATK of other units by 4.25x | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Boosts ATK of [type] by 4.75x and HP of [type] by 1.25x. Boosts ATK of other units by 4.5x | 10 | 10 |
| 3 | Reduces CD by 1 turn. Boosts ATK of [type] by 5x and HP of [type] by 1.5x. Boosts ATK of other units by 4.25x and HP of other units by 1.25x | 20 | 30 |
| 4 | Reduces CD by 1 turn. Boosts ATK of [type] by 5.5x and HP of [type] by 1.5x. Boosts ATK of other units by 5.25x and HP of other units by 1.25x | 30 | 60 |
| 5 | Reduces CD by 2 turns. Boosts ATK of [type] by 6x and HP of [type] by 1.5x. Boosts ATK of other units by 5.75x and HP of other units by 1.25x | 40 | 100 |
Special Abilities
- Upgraded with silver type USBs (so grinding those daily stages is now important)
- A total of 100 silver type USBs are needed to reach level 5 (same breakdown as the captain abilities above)
- All characters will have the same co-op special based only on the PVP class
- You do not necessarily need to max out level 5 specials for them to be usable. The debuffs for some specials max out at an earlier level, which is all that really matters.
For OtheNo Class, level 3 is sufficient
| Level | No Class Special | CD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 enemy 15% HP cut. Heals all players by 5x RCV up to 2x max HP. Reduces all players' Bind/Despair by 1 turn | 8 |
| 2 | 1 enemy 15% HP cut. Heals all players by 10x RCV up to 2x max HP. Reduces all players' Bind/Despair by 1 turn | 8 |
| 3 | 1 enemy 20% HP cut. Heals all players by 15x RCV up to 2x max HP. Reduces all players' Bind/Despair by 2 turns | 8 |
| 4 | 1 enemy 20% HP cut. Heals all players by 20x RCV up to 2x max HP. Reduces all players' Bind/Despair by 2 turns | 8 |
| 5 | 1 enemy 25% HP cut. Heals all players by 30x RCV up to 2x max HP. Reduces all players' Bind/Despair by 2 turns | 8 |
Attacker special doesn't seem important to level
| Level | Attacker Special | CD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 250k AOE ignoring NAO. For all players, changes type orbs to matching and reduces CD by 2 | 10 |
| 2 | 500k AOE ignoring NAO. For all players, changes type orbs to matching and reduces CD by 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 1M AOE ignoring NAO. For all players, changes type orbs to matching and reduces CD by 2 | 10 |
| 4 | 1.5M AOE ignoring NAO. For all players, changes type orbs to matching and reduces CD by 2 | 10 |
| 5 | 2M AOE ignoring NAO. For all players, changes type orbs to matching and reduces CD by 2 | 10 |
Seems like the most important Defender upgrade is at level 3
| Level | Defender Special | CD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | For all players, reduces damage taken by 50% for 1 time and heals all players by 60x RCV | 14 |
| 2 | For all players, reduces damage taken by 60% for 1 time and heals all players by 70x RCV | 14 |
| 3 | For all players, reduces damage taken by 70% for 2 times and heals all players by 70x RCV | 14 |
| 4 | For all players, reduces damage taken by 80% for 2 times and heals all players by 80x RCV | 14 |
| 5 | For all players, reduces damage taken by 90% for 2 times and heals all players by 90x RCV | 14 |
For Healers, level 3 seems most important
| Level | Healer Special | CD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | For all players reduces duration of "unfavorable status effect icon" by 1 turn and heals all players by 50x RCV | 12 |
| 2 | For all players reduces duration of "unfavorable status effect icon" by 1 turn and heals all players by 60x RCV | 12 |
| 3 | For all players reduces duration of "unfavorable status effect icon" by 2 turns and heals all players by 60x RCV | 12 |
| 4 | For all players reduces duration of "unfavorable status effect icon" by 2 turns and heals all players by 70x RCV | 12 |
| 5 | For all players reduces duration of "unfavorable status effect icon" by 2 turns and heals all players by 80x RCV | 12 |
Most important level for supporters seem to be level 4
| Level | Supporter Special | CD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | For all players, changes all orbs including BLOCK to matching, reduces CD by 1 turn and extends duration of beneficial effects by 1 turn | 14 |
| 2 | For all players, changes all orbs including BLOCK to matching, reduces CD by 1 turn and extends duration of beneficial effects by 1 turn | 13 |
| 3 | For all players, changes all orbs including BLOCK to matching, reduces CD by 2 turns and extends duration of beneficial effects by 1 turn | 13 |
| 4 | For all players, changes all orbs including BLOCK to matching, reduces CD by 2 turns and extends duration of beneficial effects by 2 turns | 13 |
| 5 | For all players, changes all orbs including BLOCK to matching, reduces CD by 2 turns and extends duration of beneficial effects by 2 turns | 12 |
Disrupters may simply be not good (delay immunity is so common), or it's sufficient to leave at level 1. If the enemy does allow delays then either level 2 or 5 is best.
| Level | Disrupter Special | CD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delays all enemies by 1 turn and reduces duration of enemy's buffs by 1 turn | 13 |
| 2 | Delays all enemies by 2 turns and reduces duration of enemy's buffs by 1 turn | 13 |
| 3 | Delays all enemies by 2 turns and reduces duration of enemy's buffs by 1 turn | 12 |
| 4 | Delays all enemies by 2 turn and reduces duration of enemy's buffs by 1 turn | 11 |
| 5 | Delays all enemies by 3 turns and reduces duration of enemy's buffs by 1 turn | 11 |
Ideal Candidates to Invest in for Co-op Captains
First of all, this cannot be stated enough so I'll put it in the comments as well:DO NOT SPEND YOUR RESOURCES UNTIL THE GAME MODE DROPS ON MAY 11/12
Don't feed random units to 150, don't feed your medallions, USBs, LUCK or CC. We have no idea how rare the resources will be in the future, we have no idea which units may be "necessary" in the near future, or if they will conflict with Anniversary characters (imagine you level up a Luffy... like your G5... only for Anniversary to drop a new Luffy that you want to use in the mode instead)Don't feed Legend dupes purely for LUCK. They stated luck is capped at 100, but they also stated that both your luck and your partner's will contribute to the rewards; it may be the case that you only need 50 each and you don't actually need to max out the luck. Or perhaps the luck drops are actually more common than you think and you'd much rather use those instead of feeding in an extra 26 Legend dupes or 36 total copies to max the luck stat. In the long term I doubt you'd want to feed dupes purely for luck.
You also just got 600/800 extra box space for free, you don't need to feed them to free up box space.
OK now that that's out of the way, IMO the ideal candidates to invest in for co-op captains are:
Units you like, including fodder for shits and giggles, like using a level 1 Aisa that has a 6x CA.- Units that are not commonly used, because they may conflict with a unit you really want to use in your team (like most Strawhats)
- Units that have good support options
- Units that can proc ST/EX/LT/STND/RS conditions
- Units that are easy to get dupes of (i.e. exclusives are not a good idea)
2024.04.24 01:17 Blue_Pickle_57 Resting before a race
I’m currently training for a 50k at the end of June and I’ve been running all winter and putting in lots of miles. My weeks are now 40-50 miles and my “rest” weeks are about 30-35. I’ve started to get a bit of runners knee in my left knee, to the point where it’s impacting my gait and ability to run uphill. I’m going to PT for it, but still maintaining / increasing my mileage. My question is - would I be dooming myself if I take 1-2 weeks off and rest it with no running (maybe some walking)? I’m not trying to win any medals in my race, but it’s 10k of vert and known as a very tough race, so I just want to finish, preferably without my knee impacting my ability to do so.
Bonus point question: as I type this I’m thinking that maybe my mileage is crazy high for a ~30 mile race that is 2 months out. Thought?
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Bonus point question: as I type this I’m thinking that maybe my mileage is crazy high for a ~30 mile race that is 2 months out. Thought?
2024.04.23 20:05 Kunkulis Finally Sub 3 - Zurich Marathon 2024
Race Information
- Name: Zurich Marathon 2024
- Date: 2024-04-21
- Distance: 42.2 km
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Website: https://www.zuerichmarathon.ch/
- Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11229598429
- Time: 2:58:03
Goals
| Goal | Description | Completed? |
|---|---|---|
| A | Sub 3 | Yes |
Splits
| Kilometer | Time |
|---|---|
| 5 | 20:58 |
| 10 | 41:56 |
| 15 | 1:03:21 |
| 21.1 | 1:29:09 |
| 26.8 | 1:51:48 |
| 30 | 2:06:55 |
| 35 | 2:28:19 |
| 40 | 2:49:09 |
| 42.2 | 2:58:03 |
Context
It all started pretty much after my Bilbao marathon, post - here After finishing and not achieving Sub3 a friend wrote to me about Zurich marathon saying that it is flat as a mirror. This marathon was exactly 6 months from Bilbao. So I considered it. A week later the friend ran Frankfurt marathon with the same goal of Sub3 and missing it by 28 seconds, so with that it was clear that I am going to visit him in Zurich and both of us will run the marathon and try to get each other across the finish line under 3 hours.Training
The training process didn't build confidence, most of the time I was doubting if I will be able to do it. The whole time I've been running 5x a week, with Wednesdays being group trainings.So, about a week or two after Bilbao I wrote to my coach and said that I could go out for a run, he said it might be too early, but gave an easy run which felt far too difficult (more on the tempo run side). And that feeling stayed with me for the next two or three weeks on every run. Coach told me to go give blood analysis which came back excellent. Now, since everything was okay under the hood, we kept training and working even though the paces weren't the same as they were prior to Bilbao, even my VO2 Max kept dropping from 67 to lowest point of 63 over the 3 months with January hitting the lowest point. While this downfall is happening, I tried telling myself that it is winter outside, its expected that I won't be able to go as fast as I did, but this was killing the confidence and it all felt different, not sure how to describe it, but I felt weaker in general and winter didn't have anything to do with it even though I tried telling myself its okay.
On January 30th for the first time my watch told me that I was being Productive and gave a bit of confidence boost. And it was a bit less then 3 months left to Zurich, so I thought this is a good sign, some light at the end of a tunnel. The following month the load stayed the same, ran 267km in total. But with March I did 392.66km with the first time almost hitting 100km per week. Training did take a lot of time with spending 7-8h running per week. But I stayed consistent, trusted the coach and tried ignoring my negative thoughts. During March and April we changed the training plan a bit. Usually I had Mondays and Fridays off, now it was Mondays and Thursdays off.
| Week | Distance | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 26-Mar 3 | 75.6km | 6h3min |
| Mar 4-10 | 87.1km | 7h44min |
| Mar 11-17 | 97.5km | 8h |
| Mar 18-24 | 76.8km | 6h31min |
| Mar 25-31 | 78.5km | 7h13min |
| Apr 1-7 | 97.4km | 7h54min |
| Apr 8-14 | 84.2km | 7h7min |
Some other preparation was on the nutrition/fueling side. The friend asked to get Maurten Marathon set. I asked him about it and he showed their fueling suggestion so I got one set for myself as well.
Pre-race
I had my flight on Thursday 18th April evening. On Friday the friend gave me his car and sent to a nearby city to take my mind off the race. The whole time walking around the city I was conscious if I am not walking too much, wouldn't want to put too much stress on my legs just before the race and have a question linger if the sight seeing was the reason I wasn't able to reach the goal. On Saturday we had a 40min easy warm-up run in the morning and then we went into the city after the bibs and walked around the city a bit and some pasta for lunch. The whole time thinking and talking about the race, with few other topics here and there... As evening came stress was build up, now up to this point the friend was stoic, but now he was also worried. We had to do some carbo loading and drink a Maurten drink mix. I eat under stress so it was easier for me, the friend was opposite, he forced himself to eat. Whilst we were eating, both were soothing ourselves trying to calm down saying things like "the work is done", "we can't change anything", "no matter what, I am going all in, if I fail, I fail...", "if the weather is bad, I will just enjoy the run". The evening passed and we had done all the prep and went off to bed.Race
Alarm went off at 6:00, we had to have another Maurten drink mix. Friend just had a banana, but I had a double porridge bowl and coffee. Afterwards felt a bit full, but though okay, there is still 1.5h until the start, thought it will be okay. A bit after 7:00 we arrive at the start, bag drop off is 1.5km from start so we walk there and drop the bags off. The weather seems a bit cold, but okay, happy that there wasn't wind. We drop off the bags and do a small warm-up on the way to starting line. 7:58 we both are in the starting corridor, about 3 meters behind the 3:00h pacers. 7:59 we wish each other luck. 8:00 startFirst kilometers didn't build confidence - the stomach still felt full, but not unbearable, the abs felt like pulling/cramping and hamstrings felt tired already. For the next five-ish kilometers I was switching between thinking about these things and just looking where are the pacers and forgetting about my feelings and thoughts.
We had two pacers, I decided to go with the one that was a bit ahead, since I though I'd rather have a faster finish then risk maybe a slower pacer and barely getting a sub3 if that is the case. My friend stayed with the other pacer.
The other 5km went through the city, nothing too interesting just trying to settle in.
With the 10th km we went on to the long stretch running next 14km next to the lake. The feeling in the stomach and hamstrings was still there, but everything was fine. By this point the runners where already spread out and settled into their paces.
We kept running, stayed with the Maurten plan and having a gel every 6 kilometers. Nutrition stations where frequent as well.
Reached Half-Marathon point, all went well, but from this point I started comparing myself to how I felt in Bilbao and expected the same outcome, since the first half is easy. We still had 3km till the turning point and pace wasn't changing which was a good sign, but I constantly though this is a trap.
We reach the turning point, it has a small uphill, I slow down a bit on my way up. My friend runs next to my shoulder and say "come on, let go", I stick with him, this is also the point where we need to take 4th gel, he goes for the Coffee gel and with 25th km he opens up, thinks it is second-wind and starts talking to a lot of people from our 3h group. I kept to myself not saying a word just using my hands to talk, since I didn't want to mess up my breathing and put unnecessary stress and risk failing faster. The thoughts also went to Bilbao and though how I felt, I realized I feel better then I did there, but still not having confidence that I will go all the way, since the hardest part is still ahead. Few kilometers later my mate says he is feeling great as well and thinks he could push faster, but holds himself back.
Comes 30th km my first coffee gel, at this some confidence that I will do it comes up, legs feel good compared to Bilbaos 30th km, but there still is a bit less then 1h to go, it all still can go sideways. I tell myself to stick with the group until 38th km when we are back in the city and then push if there is anything in the tank. Around this time weather got worse, some stronger rain started, but luckily for a brief moment, by 35th km it was gone.
We're at 36th km and I am full of confidence that I got this. I take my last gel, run through the nutrition station and with 36.5km I pick up the pace to around 4:00/km. Few meter ahead of the group I look back to see if my friend also picked up the pace, but he didn't. I am catching up with other runners, I am passing them and feeling great. There is now some more headwind since I don't have people in front, but that is not bothering me.
I get in the city, still holding the pace.
Around 40th km I start to get emotional, I know that even if I break down now, I got this I will have a sub3 marathon. I hold the emotions back and continue running. 41st km is my fastest at 3:55/km Last km I just enjoy it, I feel great, thinking I didn't have to encourage myself a single time this race, I felt strong and it wasn't a torture, I am smiling.
Finish, I jump up and hit my heels together its 2:58:04 on my watch when I stop it. I am happy. (later I see that I did negative splits first half 1:29:09, second 1:28:54)
I step to the side and look at the people who are coming and the clock. Few seconds later I see my friend, the clock is still in 2:58. I get even happier. He crosses at 2:58:47, I rush to him and we congratulate each other on the achievement.
Post-race
In the finishing zone we got the foil blankets and our medals. As we leave the finishing zone, the friend meets his wife and lets his emotions go, I get a bit emotional one the side as well, but held it together. I see that my friend is relieved, I am smiling, we're all having a good time and slowly moving towards the bag drop-off zone. But then it started raining cats and dogs, the blankets was just a slight protection. We are just happy that we don't have to run in this weather, since the Half Marathon runners just went in and there are still a good amount of people running the Marathon.We get our bags, friends changes in a toilet, but I though I will wait until we are somewhere with a roof and a heater. But shortly after in recovery tent I change as well. Got my phone as well and the rain had stopped, I call my wife and as I call emotions take me over, she picks up and I can't say a single word. With a cry-e voice I say hi, she asks me something, but I can't reply, fighting the urge to break down, thinking if I let go, I won't be able to stop and talk. I squeeze out few cry-e words and I am able to talk for a bit but being on the edge. We talk for a bit, but then I wasn't able to feel medal around my neck, I might have left it in the recovery tent, I say good-bye and rush to my friend to say I lost my medal, but luckily I had just put it my bag.
We walk to pasta place for some beer and pizza and celebrate, beer tasted excellent. We were receiving from our club members on our achievements and it was just euphoric.
Best part was that we weren't getting any cramps, we were able to walk normally.
The next day the same, walking wasn't a problem, the legs just felt like they had a harder workout not the zombie legs that I was used to after each marathon.
Afterthough
On Monday evening I returned, finally seeing my wife and being able to hug her. This whole time I can't stop smiling, even now walking the dog I realized how lite I felt, how energized.This marathon was my 4th try to go sub 3 and I finally got there. And the whole thing is more enjoyable that I did it with a close friend, I felt lite and strong. I haven't felt this great after a marathon since my first marathon which was in 2018.
Made with a new race report generator created by herumph.
2024.04.22 22:48 Cow_Bug Boston Marathon 2024 - Late to the reporting, 24 seconds late to the finish!
Race Information
- Name: Boston Marathon
- Date: April 15, 2024
- Distance: 26.2 miles
- Location: Boston, MA
- Temperature: 65F+ by the time most of my wave finished (18C)
- Website: https://www.baa.org/
- Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11189364405
- Time: 3:00:23
- Rank (Overall): 2,941th / 25,558
- Rank (Men): 2,740th / 14,583
- Rank (Men 18-39): 1,912th / 4,850
- ME: Age 36, M, Wave 1, Corral 6, Bib 5449
Goals
| Goal | Description | Completed? |
|---|---|---|
| A | Sub 2:50 | No |
| B | PR (<2:56:11) | No |
| C | Sun 3:00 | No |
| D | Race Smart & Enjoy? | Yes |
Splits
| Kilometer | Time |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4:06 |
| 2 | 4:08 |
| 3 | 4:05 |
| 4 | 4:10 |
| 5 | 4:02 |
| 6 | 4:09 |
| 7 | 4:05 |
| 8 | 4:08 |
| 9 | 4:05 |
| 10 | 4:04 |
| 11 | 4:04 |
| 12 | 4:08 |
| 13 | 4:14 |
| 14 | 4:11 |
| 15 | 4:08 |
| 16 | 4:13 |
| 17 | 4:13 |
| 18 | 4:13 |
| 19 | 4:09 |
| 20 | 4:12 |
| 21 | 4:10 |
| 22 | 4:11 |
| 23 | 4:14 |
| 24 | 4:13 |
| 25 | 4:11 |
| 26 | 4:03 |
| 27 | 4:23 |
| 28 | 4:18 |
| 29 | 4:29 |
| 30 | 4:24 |
| 31 | 4:16 |
| 32 | 4:28 |
| 33 | 4:26 |
| 34 | 4:33 |
| 35 | 4:10 |
| 36 | 4:23 |
| 37 | 4:24 |
| 38 | 4:33 |
| 39 | 4:15 |
| 40 | 4:30 |
| 41 | 4:35 |
| 42 | 4:30 |
Training
Winter training in Toronto - Pfitzinger 12 week schedule 55-70 miles/week (88km - 113 km).Started in January - was running around 65km/week from October to Dec, but not really focusing on any zone.
Initially had the very ambitious (foolish) goal of running sub 2:50, which I quickly learned would be unrealistic (I hadn't raced since my qualifying time in Toronto in October 2022).
The winter training was rough, and very windy. In the average Canadian winter I run maybe 30km a week (tops), so pushing myself to run more was hard -- especially when the daylight hours were so short. Fortunately, a friend kept me company on some of my longs runs by cycling next to me along the Toronto waterfront trail offering banter, support, water and gels as needed. He was my "coach" and it was lovely. Also: there was very little snow in Toronto this winter which definitely helped me train smarter.
In March I injured/bruised my left knee playing squash and had about three weeks where I wasn't able to run very much (maybe 40km/week or roughly 24mi/week) for these three weeks, and had to run much slower in the miles I did run.
I didn't really actually look at the course terrain until about March which is when I started driving to a little bit to start my runs on a downhill and end them in an uphill. I wish I'd started hill training sooner.
Pre-race
A couple days on tapering in Boston (arrived Thursday from Toronto). New shoes, felt great. The Expo was a zoo but had some cool historic memorabilia... and a lot of makeup application stations and... a booth to buy roofing? WTF?Attempted earlier nights sleep (10:30PM instead of my usual 12:00AM+). Minimized walking around Boston as that was recommended in a post I made about "What surprised you about the Boston Marathon the first time you ran it?". Didn't run at all on Sunday. Went to bed at around 09:30 Sunday night, and took two night-time flu pills to help me sleep deeply.
Woke up around 5:30, felt well rested. Ate a banana, a couple pieces of toast, some coffee, drank some water. Probably some other food I can't remember. Because of good intel I gathered from my post, I knew there would be multiple places to pee, so I drank a fair amount of water and gatorade in the 3 hour lead up to the start.
Arrived at Boston Common a little later than I'd anticipated to catch the bus to Hopkinton (I was in Wave 1 which called for bus loading at 6:45AM). Dropped off my bag, and said goodbye to my fiancée. Met a lovely man on from Mexico on the bus named René.
Race
While yes, there were many many porta potties near the start line, many many people also needed to pee. I didn't want to miss my start time and was starting to panic. Saw that the lines got much shorter the deeper I went in and was luckily okay.Marched quickly over to my corral just in time for the National Anthem (y'all Americans have such an epic anthem -- I'm jealous). I had a gel and then just... started running. It just sort of happened. Thrilling!
KM 1 - 10
Mostly downhill, felt really good. On the advice of more experienced runners, I was careful to hold back and not get too excited. I really wanted the future me to be grateful to past me for not going too hot out the gate. I had one marathon in Ottawa that was similarly hot and I got excited early on and bonked hard and I was determined to not let that happen again.
These first kilometers felt great, and the crowds were of course incredible (and inedible). I was surprised at how many smaller hills there were even early on. There were so many hills! Second GU gel at 7.5km.
KM 11-20
Still feeling really good. Hit the half marathon distance at ~1:27. Was beginning to accept that running a PR was unlikely since I knew the second half was the real challenge. I was sure to take Gatorade and water at every station -- if I could I'd try for a second water for my head. I splashed my face with my first extra water like a dumb idiot and it of course gucked up my glasses with sunscreen and sweat. Dumb. Dumb George Michael.
Third gel at around 14km.
KM 21-30 - The Wellesley College Scream Tunnel and Newton Hills.
I'm giving as many high fives as I can at this point. I'm trying to let the crowd help carry me. It's getting really hot, and I'm starting to get tired.
Fourth gel around 21km.
As I ran what I now now as the third Newton Hill, I mistakenly thought it was Heartbreak. It was just so big. I realized about 2/3 up it that it was not as there were no people holding signs indicating such, and my family wasn't there (they said they'd cheer from Heartbreak Hill but I figured I could have just missed them). I went fairly fast up this third hill.
Fifth gel at around 28km.
KM 31-37 - Heartbreak Hill
Saw my folks at Heartbreak with an old sign from my first Marathon ten years ago. It was really sweet. I was nearly 2/3 up the hill when I hear my brother calling out to me and trying to match my pace on the sidewalk. I felt supported.
I climbed it pretty quickly, I think (AVG pace 4:39/km over 1.2 km). Felt pretty good on the downhill, although the sun was really heating things up and by this point the shadows were much shorter and harder to find. I was starting to feel gassed
Sixth gel around 33km.
KM 38 - 42.0
Checking my watch I see that I'll be damned close to running sub-3. I give it my all for these final kilometers. I'm totally gassed, and my legs are burning. I push, look at my watch, and I'm not moving any faster. My legs just can't go and it's maddening. I see the Citgo sign, and know I'm close to the end. I really want to finish strong and in under 3 hours.
I see my fiancée cheering just before the bridge and feel a surge of love, but my legs can't go faster.
Seventh gel around 38km? I can't remember.
FINISH 42.2 KM
I turn left onto Boylston Street thinking the finish will be right there, but it does that dolly zoom shot film thing you see in movies just stretches back. It's not "right there". The distance, though short, is very far away for these poor legs. I push as hard as I can - my breathing gets really fucking weird and I've never breathed like this before. My pulse shoots up to 178 bpm and I'm barely running faster.
I cross the finish with a time of 03:00:23.
Ouch ouch ouch. This is my best run so far, despite not being a PR. I feel very good about it and incredibly frustrated at the time.
Post-race
Ouch. Puttered over to the Sam Adam's taproom near the market before going to the Post Race Party near City Hall. I don't recommend the post race party - it's kinda lame (although they DICK's engraved your medal free of charge if you lined up for it).Several people at the part have the mochi-donut/teething-ring-toy medal indicating that they've run all 6 major marathons. It leaves me inspired to run the others!
The Big Ouch lasts until Thursday which is when my legs finally started feeling a bit better.
Overall
10/10 would recommend. It is a glorious race, with motivating crowds. Super challenging, but also super well organized, and fun.^ As you probably know. ^
I'll keep this first Boston close to my heart and learn from it.
Made with a new race report generator created by herumph.
2024.04.21 14:18 arunlovesdosas Indian Team in the 2025 Asian Winter Games?
 | The next Asian Winter Games will be held in Harbin, China next year and we need start fighting to IOA (Indian Olympic Association) to send our Ice Hockey Teams, both men’s and women’s to the Games. The IOA is notorious for stopping the Football and Water Polo teams from participating in the Asian Games earlier, without understanding the value of the exposure our players can get. We need to send our full fledged team, no matter if don’t win a medal or not. And this goes to every single winter sport like skiing, Curling, Skating. We need to start preparations now it self if we need to show a good fighting in the games. We haven’t taken part in any IIHF competitions nor any development cups this year (Only the Women’s team did). We need to organise some friendlies and hire a good coach who can try helping our players from the technical and creative side of things. submitted by arunlovesdosas to IndianIceHockey [link] [comments] If we want to see our Ice Hockey teams perform next year, this is the right time to pressurise the IOA and Sports Ministry! |
2024.04.20 23:05 dear_remnant [CAN-ON] [H]PS1-5,3/DS,GC,GBA,NSW,amiibo,misc [W] lists
Hi,
Here's what I can offer for trades. CIB unless noted otherwise. List may get updated after initial posting.
Notes.
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Here's what I can offer for trades. CIB unless noted otherwise. List may get updated after initial posting.
Have
| PS1 | |
|---|---|
| Breath of Fire 3 | Manual damaged. Missing first page. Disc plays okay. |
| Breath of Fire 4 | |
| Parasite Eve | Small crack in the case |
| Tactics Ogre | |
| Dragon Warrior 7 | |
| Legend of Legaia | |
| Metal Gear Solid | missing manual |
| Suikoden | small rip in first page of manual |
| Wild Arms 2 | loose disc only |
| Final Fantasy Tactics | |
| Revelations: Persona | box only |
| Star Ocean: The Second Story | |
| Gran Turismo | Brand new. Plastic wrap is gone but seal at the top is still intact. |
| A bug's life | |
| Black Dawn | |
| Formula1 98 | |
| Small soldiers | |
| The next tetris | |
| Star wars: Episode 1 The phantom menace | |
| Twisted metal III | |
| Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style | |
| Apocalypse | |
| Playstation Underground Jampack | |
| NHL FaceOff 99 | |
| NFL Xtreme | |
| NFL GameDay 2001 | Sealed. Small rip in the plastic wrap |
| NFL GameDay 2000 | |
| MLB 2000 | |
| 3Xtreme | |
| Contender | |
| Jampack Summer 99 | |
| Jampack Winter 98 | |
| Interactive CD Sampler Pack Volume 3 | |
| Spyro | |
| Bust A Groove |
| PS2 | |
|---|---|
| Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 [Limited Edition] | outer box showing some wear |
| .Hack Quarantine | Missing anime DVD, Case may not be original |
| Front mission 4 | |
| Katamari Damacy | |
| Silent Hill 3 | |
| Silent Hill 4 | |
| Suikoden 3 | |
| Final Fantasy XII Limited Edition (steelbook) | |
| Xenosaga Episode 1 | |
| Xenosaga Episode 3 | |
| Guitar Hero | |
| Guitar Hero Metallica | |
| Guitar Hero III Legend of Rock | |
| Rockband AC/DC Track Pack | |
| Grandia II | |
| Grandia III | |
| Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne | |
| Kingdom Hearts | GH |
| Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 |
| PSP | |
|---|---|
| Untold Legends Brotherhood Of The Blade | |
| Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands | |
| Legend Of Heroes III Song Of The Ocean | loose umd only |
| Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories | GH |
| Robots | UMD Movie |
| Vita | |
|---|---|
| Killzone Mercenary | loose |
| PS3 | |
|---|---|
| Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection [Artbook Bundle] | Sealed with artbook |
| Dante's Inferno Divine Edition | with slipcover, missing manual |
| BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend | |
| Batman: Arkham City | |
| Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII | |
| Disney Infinity starter pack | Sealed |
| Record of Agarest War 2 | Sealed, One corner of box is dinged |
| Dead Island Riptide [Rigor Mortis Edition] | Sealed |
| Dead Space 3 Dev-team Edition | Sealed, 4004/5000 |
| Battlefield 3 | |
| Battlefield 4 | |
| Far Cry 2 | |
| Far Cry 4 | |
| Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 | |
| Heavy Fire: Afghanistan | |
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas | |
| Little Big Planet Karting | |
| Batman: Arkham Asylum - GoTY edition | |
| Medal of Honor: Warfighter | |
| Need for Speed: The Run LE | |
| Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit LE | |
| Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit | loose, GH |
| Need for Speed: Rivals | missing manual |
| Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection | |
| Duke Nukem Forever | |
| Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes | GH |
| Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens | loose |
| Destiny | |
| Lost Planet 3 | Sealed |
| God of War Collection | GH |
| Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli | |
| Dead Space | |
| Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII | |
| Dead Island | |
| Batman: Arkham City | |
| Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend | |
| Blur | |
| Prototype 2 Blackwatch Collector's Edition | Sealed |
| PS4 | |
|---|---|
| Fallout 4 Pipboy edition | Sealed |
| Elder Scrolls Online Tamriel Unlimited Imperial Edition | Sealed |
| Wolfenstein II: The new Colossus Collector's Edition | Sealed |
| Final fantasy vii remake | |
| Final fantasy vii remake deluxe edition | Sealed |
| Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars | digital code |
| Kingdom Hearts All-in-one | sealed |
| Fifa 14 | |
| Battlefield 4 | |
| INSIDE / LIMBO double pack | |
| WWE 2K15 Hulkamania Edition | sealed |
| Dying Light | |
| Fallout 4 | |
| Borderlands: The Handsome Collection | |
| Maid of Sker | Sealed, PEGI |
| NBA 2K19 | |
| Dynasty Warrior 7 Empires | Chinese version |
| R-Type Final 2 Inaugural edition | Sealed |
| Transformers: Rise Of The Dark Spark | |
| Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition |
| PS5 | |
|---|---|
| Tales of Arise | Sealed |
| Elden Ring preorder code x3 | Willing to throw this in free with any trade |
| Elden Ring with steelbook bundle | Bundle seems to be Bestbuy Canada exclusive |
| Scarlet Nexus | Sealed |
| Evil Dead | digital code |
| Horizon Forbidden West Collector's Edition | Sealed |
| Spider-man 2 | digital code |
| Xbox | |
|---|---|
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | gamestop sticker on manual |
| Xbox360 | |
|---|---|
| Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation | |
| Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts | |
| Fallout 3 | |
| Halo 4 LE | Sealed |
| Lost Odyssey | |
| Silent Hill: Homecoming | |
| Otomedius Excellent |
| GameCube | |
|---|---|
| Resident Evil | |
| Donkey Konga 2 | Sealed |
| Wii | |
|---|---|
| Super Mario All-Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition | Sealed |
| The Last Story LE | |
| Sin & Punishment: Star Successor | Sealed |
| Switch | |
|---|---|
| Xenoblade Chronicles 2 | |
| Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country | Sealed |
| Xenoblade Chronicles 3 | Sealed |
| Metroid Dread Special Edition | Sealed |
| Shin Megami Tensei V Fall of Men Premium Edition | Sealed |
| Hoa | Sealed |
| Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town Premium Edition | Sealed |
| Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1 [Deluxe Edition] | Sealed |
| AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative Collectors Edition | Sealed |
| Legend of Zelda the tears of the kingdom Collector's edition | Sealed |
| Fire Emblem Engage Divine Edition | Sealed |
| GBA | |
|---|---|
| Platinum GBA SP | loose |
| Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage | loose |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender | loose |
| SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | loose |
| American Dragon Jake Long Rise Of The Huntsclan | loose |
| Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 3 | loose |
| Pokemon LeafGreen | loose |
| Pokemon Sapphire | loose, dry battery replaced |
| Chronicles Of Narnia Lion Witch And The Wardrobe | loose |
| Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 | loose |
| Tales of Phantasia | loose |
| Shining Soul 2 | loose |
| Kirby and the Amazing Mirror | loose |
| Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland | loose |
| DS | |
|---|---|
| Coral Pink DS Lite | Excellent cosmetic condition, charger included |
| White DSi | no charger, stylus |
| TMNT | |
| Lego Harry Potter Year 1-4 | |
| Phantasy Star 0 | missing manual |
| Flash Focus | |
| Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia | loose |
| Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume | loose |
| Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light | loose |
| Pokemon HeartGold | loose, small damage on label |
| Pokemon HeartGold | big box with pokewalker |
| Pokemon SoulSilver | box only |
| Pokemon Diamond | |
| Pokemon Diamond | loose |
| Pokemon Platinum | loose |
| Pokemon Black | |
| Pokemon Black | missing manual |
| Pokemon Black | box only |
| Hoppie | no manual, some water damage in cover arts |
| Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days | |
| Metroid Prime: Hunters - First Hunt | loose |
| Diddy Kong Racing | |
| Fossil Fighters | |
| Professor Layton And The Curious Village | |
| Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney | loose |
| 3DS | |
|---|---|
| 3DS XL Black+Red | CIB, Cave Story digital installed |
| New 3DS XL Galaxy | loose. Charger included. Missing stylus, Dual IPS screen |
| Pokemon X | |
| Rune Factory 4 | |
| Bravely Second: End Layer | Warning booklet missing |
| Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance LE | Missing AR cards |
| Pokemon Sun | loose |
| Pokemon Ultra Sun | |
| Pokemon X | loose, have 2 |
| Kirby Triple Deluxe | loose |
| LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens | Case in rough shape. Missing manual |
| Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond The Myth [Launch Edition] | sealed |
| Sonic: Lost World | |
| Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | |
| Mario Kart 7 | |
| Kirby: Triple Deluxe | Nintendo Selects |
| Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D | Nintendo Selects |
| Tales of the Abyss | sealed |
| Fantasy Life |
| Amiibo (all SSB except noted otherwise) | All sealed in original box |
|---|---|
| Peach (Super Mario) | 025W1 |
| Yoshi (Super Mario) | 524W2 |
| Mario | 434W2 |
| Bowser | 464S1 |
| Diddy Kong | 424S1 |
| Luigi | 434S1 |
| Pikachu | 474W2 |
| Squirtle | 279W5 |
| Ivysaur | 299W5 |
| Snake | 2559G1 |
| Sonic | 494W2 |
| Peach | 444W3 |
| Link (Link's awakening) | 2079G1 |
| Link | 524S1 |
| Link (Majora's mask) | 187S1 |
| Guides | |
|---|---|
| Tales of Vesperia | BradyGames |
| Dark Souls | FuturePress, Sealed |
| Dark Souls II CE | FuturePress, Sealed |
| Dragon Warrior VII | Prima |
| Breath of Fire IV | Prima |
| Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch | Prima, Hard Cover |
| Wild Arms 4 | Prima |
| God of War III | BradyGames |
| Resident Evil 6 | BradyGames, Hard Cover, Sealed |
| Legend of Zelda Collector's Box Set | Prima, sealed |
| Manuals | |
|---|---|
| https://imgur.com/a/DLa5yM4 | Too many to list. Some 360/PS3 ones may be in French. Please ask. Harvest Moon (GC) is traded. |
| Steelbooks | G1 size unless noted. No games included. |
|---|---|
| Assassin's Creed 3 | in shrink wrap |
| Assassin's Creed Collection | |
| Batman Arkham City Armored Edition | |
| Batman Arkham City | G2 |
| Call of Duty Black Ops II | |
| Dead Space 3 | in shrink wrap |
| Devil May Cry | G2 |
| Dishonored | |
| Duke Nukem Forever | in shrink wrap |
| Epic Mickey 2 | |
| Farcry 3 | in shrink wrap |
| FF XIII Lightning Returns | in shrink wrap |
| Hitman Absolution | |
| Injustice Gods Among Us | |
| Medal of Honor Warfighter | G2 |
| New Super Mario Bros U | |
| NHL 12 | |
| Prototype 2 | in shrink wrap |
| Sleeping Dogs | |
| Thief | |
| World of Warcraft Mist of Pandara |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| FF X Play Arts Tidus | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
| FF X Play Arts Yuna | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
| FF X Play Arts Auron | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
| FFVII Advent Children Play Arts Sephiroth | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
| FFVII Advent Children Play Arts Vincent | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
| FFVII Advent Children Play Arts Cloud with Fenrir | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
| Steer 'n win jr racing wheel/pedal | compatible with PS1/N64 |
| Diablo III Collector's Edition PC | Sealed |
| Diablo III Reaper of Souls Collector's Edition PC | Sealed |
| Homeworld Collector's Edition PC | Sealed |
Want:
Mostly interested in JRPGs and horrors. Working design, Enix, Falcom, NIS, Atlus, etc. Also looking for many turbo/turbo CD games. Must be CIB unless noted otherwise.
| PS1 |
|---|
| Adventures of Lomax |
| Deception III: Dark Delusion |
| Echo Night |
| Kartia |
| King's Field (Long box) |
| King's Field II |
| Klonoa: Door to Phantomile |
| Koudelka |
| Misadventures of Tron Bonne |
| RayCrisis: Series Termination |
| RayStorm |
| Shadow Tower |
| Tail Concerto |
| Thunder Force V |
| Torneko: The Last Hope |
| Resident evil survivor |
| PS2 |
|---|
| Echo Night: Beyond |
| Forever Kingdom |
| Haunting Ground |
| ObsCure |
| Shadow Heart |
| Silent Hill 2 (Greatest Hits) |
| Silent Hill: Shattered Memories |
| Tsugunai: Atonement |
| PS4 |
|---|
| Atelier Ryza LE |
| Atelier Sophie LE |
| Tales of Berseria CE |
| PS5 |
|---|
| The Last of us Part 1 Firefly edition (sealed) |
| The Last of us Part 2 WLF edition (sealed) |
| Vita |
|---|
| Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Brith 1 LE |
| GBC |
|---|
| Dragon Warrior Monsters |
| Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey |
| Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure |
| Dragon Warrior I & II |
| Lufia: The Legend Returns |
| Revelations: The Demon Slayer |
| GBA |
|---|
| DemiKids: Dark/Light Version |
| Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament |
| Klonoa: Empire of Dreams |
| Lufia: The Ruins of Lore |
| Lunar Legend |
| Summon Night: Swordcraft Story |
| Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 |
| GameCube | |
|---|---|
| Star Fox: Assault | Manual only |
| Jet Black GameCube box and cardboard inserts | |
| Indigo wired OEM controller | very low want |
| Switch | |
|---|---|
| Dragon quest xi | sealed preferred |
| DS | |
|---|---|
| Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow | |
| Commando: Steel Disaster | |
| Dragon Quest V | |
| Dragon Quest IV | Box and manual only |
| Etrian Odyssey | |
| Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja | |
| Lufia: Curse of the Sinitrals | |
| Lunar: Dragon Song | Manual only |
| Resident Evil: Deadly Silence | |
| Sands of Destruction | |
| Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier |
| 3DS | |
|---|---|
| Corpse Party: Back to School Edition | |
| Dragon Quest VIII | |
| Etrian Mystery Dungeon (Launch soundtrack bundle preferred) | |
| Etrian Odyssey Nexus (launch edition) | |
| Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia Limited Edition | |
| Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology (launch edition) | |
| Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (with soundtrack) | |
| Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker (launch edition) | |
| Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse Launch Edition |
| Others | |
|---|---|
| Turbografx-16 Console | CIB preferred |
| Turbografx-16 and Turbo CD games | CIB preferred. Almost everything except sports games will be considered. Big priority now |
| Dragon Quest Slime controller for Switch | |
| All Uncharted Waters games (SNES and Genesis, CIB) |
- Prefer to trade within Canada, but will consider cross border too if offers are attractive. I'm okay with conus (with some exceptions).
- Will provide pics upon request.
- I have not listed everything in haves/wants. I will gladly check your list and work something out.
2024.04.19 23:44 aid_hdz [USA-TX] [H] Gamecube games, PSOne, Gameboy Color Systems, ROB, & more [W] Paypal
I am looking to sell off the below items. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. I am happy to provide further pictures. Looking for Paypal only at this time. I tried to base my prices off Ebay most recent sold items plus knocked off 20%. $25 minimum for free shipping Ring Fit Adventure - CIB - used only twice, thoroughly cleaned and disinfected $50
Gameboy Color Yellow - $65 Gameboy Color Teal - $60 PS One OEM Travel Bag - $40 PS One Console - w/ power cable, two OEM controllers, av cable, and third party memory card $85 Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2nd Edition - PS1 - Greatest Hits - CIB - $5 007 Tomorrow Never Dies - PS1 - Greatest Hits - CIB - $8 Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 Syphon filter - PS1 - Greatest Hits - CIB - $8 Spongebob Squarepants Super Sponge - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 NFL Blitz 2001 - PS1 - Black Label - No Manual - $5 NCAA Final Four 2000 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 NBA Live 2001 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $5 Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $12 Gran Turismo - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $18 Final Fantasy 9 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $20 Blue’s Big Musical - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 Asteroids - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $5 Walt Disney World Quest Magical Racing Tour - PS1 - Black Label - missing back cover art - $12 Toy Story 2 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $22 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 - PS1 - Black Label - missing back cover art - $8 Triple Play 2001 - PS1 - Disc Only - $5
PsOne bundle (all of the above): $210 Steel Diver - 3DS - Cartridge Only - $5 Wipeout Create & Crash - 3DS - Cartridge only - $5 Crush 3D - 3DS - Cartridge only - $5 ROB the Robot NES - untested - $80 Gamecube Top Gun Combat Zones - GCN - game, case, cover art, missing manual - black label - $5 Splinter Cell - GCN - CIB - black label - $12 The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc - GCN - CIB - black label - $35 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - GCN - Players Choice - CIB - $10 Medal of Honor Frontline - GCN - Black label - CIB - $8 Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet 16 Licensed to Drive - GCN - Black label - CIB - $5 Looney Tunes Back in Action - GCN - CIB - Black Label - $18 Legends of Wrestling - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Legends of Wrestling 2 - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 Hot Wheels Velocity X - GCN - CIB - black label - $18 Extreme G 3 Racing - GCN - CIB - black label - $12 Eighteen Wheeler American Pro Trucker - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Dave Mirra 2 Freestyle BMX - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 Burnout - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 Nascar Thunder 2003 - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 Madden 07 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 NHL 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 NBA Live 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 NBA Live 06 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 NFL 2K3 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 NFL QB Club 2002 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $10 NCAA Football 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $12 NCAA Football 2005 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $12 MVP Baseball 2005 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Major League Baseball 2K6 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Knockout Kings 2003 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Homerun King - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 F1 2002 - GCN - CIB - black label - $20 2002 Fifa World Cup - GCN - no manual - black label - $8 International Winter Sports 2002 - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 World Series of Poker - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 WWE Wrestlemania x8 - GCN - CIB - black label - $10 All Star Baseball 2002 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 All Star Baseball 2003 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 2003 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 2005 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 06 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 07 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5
Gamecube bundle (all of the above): $300 FIFA 21 PS4 - CIB - $5 FIFA 17 PS4 - CIB - $5 Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/n6BDqMZ Thank you for looking!
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Gameboy Color Yellow - $65 Gameboy Color Teal - $60 PS One OEM Travel Bag - $40 PS One Console - w/ power cable, two OEM controllers, av cable, and third party memory card $85 Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2nd Edition - PS1 - Greatest Hits - CIB - $5 007 Tomorrow Never Dies - PS1 - Greatest Hits - CIB - $8 Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 Syphon filter - PS1 - Greatest Hits - CIB - $8 Spongebob Squarepants Super Sponge - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 NFL Blitz 2001 - PS1 - Black Label - No Manual - $5 NCAA Final Four 2000 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 NBA Live 2001 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $5 Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $12 Gran Turismo - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $18 Final Fantasy 9 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $20 Blue’s Big Musical - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $8 Asteroids - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $5 Walt Disney World Quest Magical Racing Tour - PS1 - Black Label - missing back cover art - $12 Toy Story 2 - PS1 - Black Label - CIB - $22 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 - PS1 - Black Label - missing back cover art - $8 Triple Play 2001 - PS1 - Disc Only - $5
PsOne bundle (all of the above): $210 Steel Diver - 3DS - Cartridge Only - $5 Wipeout Create & Crash - 3DS - Cartridge only - $5 Crush 3D - 3DS - Cartridge only - $5 ROB the Robot NES - untested - $80 Gamecube Top Gun Combat Zones - GCN - game, case, cover art, missing manual - black label - $5 Splinter Cell - GCN - CIB - black label - $12 The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc - GCN - CIB - black label - $35 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - GCN - Players Choice - CIB - $10 Medal of Honor Frontline - GCN - Black label - CIB - $8 Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet 16 Licensed to Drive - GCN - Black label - CIB - $5 Looney Tunes Back in Action - GCN - CIB - Black Label - $18 Legends of Wrestling - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Legends of Wrestling 2 - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 Hot Wheels Velocity X - GCN - CIB - black label - $18 Extreme G 3 Racing - GCN - CIB - black label - $12 Eighteen Wheeler American Pro Trucker - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Dave Mirra 2 Freestyle BMX - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 Burnout - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 Nascar Thunder 2003 - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 Madden 07 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 NHL 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 NBA Live 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 NBA Live 06 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 NFL 2K3 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 NFL QB Club 2002 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $10 NCAA Football 2003 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $12 NCAA Football 2005 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $12 MVP Baseball 2005 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Major League Baseball 2K6 - GCN - CIB - Black label - $8 Knockout Kings 2003 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Homerun King - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 F1 2002 - GCN - CIB - black label - $20 2002 Fifa World Cup - GCN - no manual - black label - $8 International Winter Sports 2002 - GCN - CIB - black label - $8 World Series of Poker - GCN - CIB - Black label - $5 WWE Wrestlemania x8 - GCN - CIB - black label - $10 All Star Baseball 2002 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 All Star Baseball 2003 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 2003 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 2005 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 06 - GCN - no manual - black label - $5 Fifa Soccer 07 - GCN - CIB - black label - $5
Gamecube bundle (all of the above): $300 FIFA 21 PS4 - CIB - $5 FIFA 17 PS4 - CIB - $5 Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/n6BDqMZ Thank you for looking!
2024.04.19 00:53 ImaMasterDebator Good evening Boston, I am back with a list of things to do this weekend - April 18th - 21st
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Editor's note: I'm having my good friend Yan write the preamble to these now. I'm still making the lists but he'll be the voice of the newsletteposts.
It's the middle of April & it looks like Boston is finally crossing the finish-line of another Marathon winter.
The tourists have gone home & Bostonians are ready for another weekend (even if it is only 2 days). As always, there is no shortage of diverse events happening for all ages & interests.
On Saturday, be sure to enjoy the nice weather by taking advantage of *Free Entrance Day* at all National Parks!
-Yan
Candlelight: A Tribute to Whitney Houston in Concert @ Greater Boston Stage @ 7PM / 9PM Rasa String Quartet brilliantly interprets Whitney Houston’s timeless hits.
Disney Songs Reimagined in Concert @ Berklee Performance Center @ 8PM This enchanting evening reimagines classic Disney melodies and showcases original compositions inspired by the Disney magic.
Cypress Hill @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With The Pharcyde & SOul of Mischief
Brothers Osborne @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM
Kublai Khan TX @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM
lovelytheband @ Brighton Music Hall @ 8PM
Ekali @ Big Night Live @ 9:30PM
Allah-Las @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Sam Blasucci, Maston, & Reverberation Radio
Mike @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With 454, Niontay, & Costeau
Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift in Concert @ Greater Boston Stage @ 7PM / 9PM Hear Taylor Swift classic and new hits in this classical concert program!
Atmosphere @ House of Blues @ 8PM
Hippie Sabotage @ Roadrunner @ 9PM With Daisy Guttridge & Kembe X
Drop Nineteens @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM
Hans Williams @ Brighton Music Hall @ 8PM
Gasolina Party @ Big Night Live @ 9:30PM
The Motet @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Consider the Source
STRFKR @ Royale @ 6:30PM
Marauda @ Royale @ 10PM
A Great Big Pile of Leaves @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Future Teens & Dutch Tulips
The Danielle Nicole Band @ City Winery @ 7:30PM
Monster Jam @ Gillette Stadium @ 5PM Get up close to the trucks at the Pit Party and see some of the world’s best drivers show off their crazy skills and all-out racing in fierce head-to-head battles.
Small Mart @ Crystal Ballroom @ 11AM Visit this curated market featuring 40+ of favorite local artisans, vintage, makers and experiential vendors, perfect for some weekend shopping.
Beyond the Spectrum: Teens @ MFA @ 10:30AM In this engaging class, teens will explore the captivating connection between music and visual art at the museum.
Space Day @ MIT Museum @ 11AM Enjoy a day of talks, demos, and hands-on activities all about Space.
Kyle Gordon Stand Up @ Crystal Ballroom @ 7PM
Kathe Farris Stand Up @ Nick’s Comedy Stop @ 8PM
The Hot Sardines @ Berklee Performance Center @ 8PM Hear New York speakeasies, Parisian cabarets, and New Orleans jazz halls transformed into music for the 21st century.
Chris Tomlin @ Agganis Arena @ 7PM
Taylor Swift Party @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Ibrahim Maalouf @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM
Taylor Acorn @ Brighton Music Hall @ 8PM
Benny Benassi @ Big Night Live @ 10:30PM
Elle Varner @ City Winery @ 7:30PM
Serve Dance Party @ Royale @ 9PM
Israel & New Breed @ House of Blues @ 8PM
Arms Length @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM With Carly Cosgrove
The Veronicas @ Royale @ 7PM
We Are The Union @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Half Past Two, Devon Kay & The Solutions, and The Pomps
Good Kid @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Adan Diaz
Kevin Ross @ City Winery @ 7:30PM
FRIDAY & SUNDAY - Brahm’s Requiem in Concert @ Symphony Hall Savor the richness of Brahms in this profound performance by Handel and Haydn Society.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Martin Amini Stand Up @ Laugh Boston
All weekend - Jim Gaffigan Stand Up @ The Wilbur
All weekend - Matt Rife Stand Up @ MGM Music Hall
All weekend - Mozart, Brahms, & Thorvaldsdottir in Concert @ Symphony Hall Enjoy Mozart’s charming Symphony No. 33, followed by Anna Thorvaldsdottir's monumental work ‘Archora,’ and Brahms’ Violin Concerto, one of the greatest works in the repertoire, closing the program.
All weekend - ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ Opera @ The Huntington Theatre Be magically swept away in a midsummer's night in this libretto adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about dreams and desires.
All weekend - ‘Burn This’ Play @ Black Box Theatre Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson ignites the stage with this caustically funny exploration of life, loss, mourning and moving on.
All weekend - ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ Play @ Lyric Stage This bubbly love letter to musical theater sparkles with one show-stopper after another, story mix-ups, mayhem, and a wedding (or two).
All weekend - ‘Book of Mountains and Seas’ Puppet Show @ Emerson Paramount Center Chinese creation myths come to life with larger than life puppetry and a polyphonic chorus in this breathtaking theatrical event.
Ongoing - Musical Shows @ MoS PlanetariumMuseum of Science puts on special experiences adapting the music of Pink Floyd, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and The Divas to immersive visuals in the Charles Hayden Planetarium.
Ongoing - ‘Firelei Báez’ Exhibition @ ICA One of the most exciting painters of her generation, Báez explores the multilayered legacy of colonial histories and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and beyond.
Ongoing - ‘Wordplay’ Exhibition @ ICA Highlighting the rich interplay between imagery and text, the exhibition showcases how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices.
Ongoing - ‘Hallyu! The Korean Wave’ Exhibition @ MFA Enjoy an immersive and multisensory journey through Korea’s fascinating history, and celebrate its contemporary vibrant creative force.
Ongoing - ‘Dress Up’ Exhibition @ MFA Through more than 100 works from the MFA’s collection including 20th- and 21st-century clothing, jewelry, accessories, illustrations, and photographs, this exhibition explores adornment and its role in the creation of a look.
Ongoing - ‘Mondrian: Foundations’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition presents 28 paintings and works on paper, primarily from Mondrian’s early career, that trace the artist’s explorations as he progressed from realistic traditions to experimental abstractions.
Ongoing - ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party’ Exhibition @ MFA This exhibition brings together 27 powerful photographs by Stephen Shames that feature the women of the Black Panther party and showcase their crucial work for the movement.
Ongoing - ‘Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale’ Exhibition @ MFA Featuring 15 intriguing objects from 17th-century Netherlands such as paintings, prints, silver medals, and books, this exhibition compels viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world around them.
Ongoing - ‘Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West’ Exhibition @ ISG Museum Shaw’s images of magic and mystery combine Western artistic tradition with ornamental elements derived from the Japanese, Persian, and Indian cultures that he vividly remembers from his youth.
Ongoing - ‘Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums The exhibition explores the dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain, imagery of death, struggles of good and evil, political and artistic revolution, and issues of desire and capture.
Ongoing - ‘Our Time on Earth’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum This traveling exhibition from the Barbican Centre in London celebrates the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency.
Ongoing - ‘AI: Mind the Gap’ Exhibition @ MIT MuseumMIT Museum presents its latest riveting, interactive exhibit exploring the tremendous promise, unforeseen impacts, and everyday misconceptions of AI.
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Editor's note: I'm having my good friend Yan write the preamble to these now. I'm still making the lists but he'll be the voice of the newsletteposts.
It's the middle of April & it looks like Boston is finally crossing the finish-line of another Marathon winter.
The tourists have gone home & Bostonians are ready for another weekend (even if it is only 2 days). As always, there is no shortage of diverse events happening for all ages & interests.
On Saturday, be sure to enjoy the nice weather by taking advantage of *Free Entrance Day* at all National Parks!
-Yan
THURSDAY - APRIL 18
Connor Wood Comedy Show @ Laugh Boston @ 8PM / 11PMCandlelight: A Tribute to Whitney Houston in Concert @ Greater Boston Stage @ 7PM / 9PM Rasa String Quartet brilliantly interprets Whitney Houston’s timeless hits.
Disney Songs Reimagined in Concert @ Berklee Performance Center @ 8PM This enchanting evening reimagines classic Disney melodies and showcases original compositions inspired by the Disney magic.
Cypress Hill @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With The Pharcyde & SOul of Mischief
Brothers Osborne @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM
Kublai Khan TX @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM
lovelytheband @ Brighton Music Hall @ 8PM
Ekali @ Big Night Live @ 9:30PM
Allah-Las @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Sam Blasucci, Maston, & Reverberation Radio
Mike @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With 454, Niontay, & Costeau
FRIDAY - APRIL 19
Golden Girls Live Show @ The Hanover Theatre @ 8PM After sold-out shows across the country in 2023, this latest production brings Miami’s sassiest seniors to the live stage for one more hurrah.Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift in Concert @ Greater Boston Stage @ 7PM / 9PM Hear Taylor Swift classic and new hits in this classical concert program!
Atmosphere @ House of Blues @ 8PM
Hippie Sabotage @ Roadrunner @ 9PM With Daisy Guttridge & Kembe X
Drop Nineteens @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM
Hans Williams @ Brighton Music Hall @ 8PM
Gasolina Party @ Big Night Live @ 9:30PM
The Motet @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Consider the Source
STRFKR @ Royale @ 6:30PM
Marauda @ Royale @ 10PM
A Great Big Pile of Leaves @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Future Teens & Dutch Tulips
The Danielle Nicole Band @ City Winery @ 7:30PM
SATURDAY - APRIL 20
Free Entrance Day in National Parks On select days throughout the year, all national parks are open to the public with no admission fee.Monster Jam @ Gillette Stadium @ 5PM Get up close to the trucks at the Pit Party and see some of the world’s best drivers show off their crazy skills and all-out racing in fierce head-to-head battles.
Small Mart @ Crystal Ballroom @ 11AM Visit this curated market featuring 40+ of favorite local artisans, vintage, makers and experiential vendors, perfect for some weekend shopping.
Beyond the Spectrum: Teens @ MFA @ 10:30AM In this engaging class, teens will explore the captivating connection between music and visual art at the museum.
Space Day @ MIT Museum @ 11AM Enjoy a day of talks, demos, and hands-on activities all about Space.
Kyle Gordon Stand Up @ Crystal Ballroom @ 7PM
Kathe Farris Stand Up @ Nick’s Comedy Stop @ 8PM
The Hot Sardines @ Berklee Performance Center @ 8PM Hear New York speakeasies, Parisian cabarets, and New Orleans jazz halls transformed into music for the 21st century.
Chris Tomlin @ Agganis Arena @ 7PM
Taylor Swift Party @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Ibrahim Maalouf @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM
Taylor Acorn @ Brighton Music Hall @ 8PM
Benny Benassi @ Big Night Live @ 10:30PM
Elle Varner @ City Winery @ 7:30PM
Serve Dance Party @ Royale @ 9PM
SUNDAY - APRIL 21
Party for the Planet @ Franklin Park Zoo @ 10AM At this Earth Day celebration, learn more about the importance of conservation through zookeeper chats, games & activities, education stations, and more.Israel & New Breed @ House of Blues @ 8PM
Arms Length @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM With Carly Cosgrove
The Veronicas @ Royale @ 7PM
We Are The Union @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Half Past Two, Devon Kay & The Solutions, and The Pomps
Good Kid @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Adan Diaz
Kevin Ross @ City Winery @ 7:30PM
ALL WEEKEND
All weekend - ‘Solo: A Show About Friendship’ Comedy Play @ Calderwood Pavilion Gabe Mollica’s Off-Broadway hit is a funny and intricate deep dive into friendships in your 30s, Mollica’s relationship with Sondheim, and what happens when you break up with your best friend.FRIDAY & SUNDAY - Brahm’s Requiem in Concert @ Symphony Hall Savor the richness of Brahms in this profound performance by Handel and Haydn Society.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Martin Amini Stand Up @ Laugh Boston
All weekend - Jim Gaffigan Stand Up @ The Wilbur
All weekend - Matt Rife Stand Up @ MGM Music Hall
All weekend - Mozart, Brahms, & Thorvaldsdottir in Concert @ Symphony Hall Enjoy Mozart’s charming Symphony No. 33, followed by Anna Thorvaldsdottir's monumental work ‘Archora,’ and Brahms’ Violin Concerto, one of the greatest works in the repertoire, closing the program.
All weekend - ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ Opera @ The Huntington Theatre Be magically swept away in a midsummer's night in this libretto adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about dreams and desires.
All weekend - ‘Burn This’ Play @ Black Box Theatre Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson ignites the stage with this caustically funny exploration of life, loss, mourning and moving on.
All weekend - ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ Play @ Lyric Stage This bubbly love letter to musical theater sparkles with one show-stopper after another, story mix-ups, mayhem, and a wedding (or two).
All weekend - ‘Book of Mountains and Seas’ Puppet Show @ Emerson Paramount Center Chinese creation myths come to life with larger than life puppetry and a polyphonic chorus in this breathtaking theatrical event.
ONGOING
Ongoing - Immersive Disney Animation @ Boch Center Step into the art and legacy of Walt Disney Animation Studios and celebrate the music, artistry and animation from the creators of Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Big Hero 6 and many more.Ongoing - Musical Shows @ MoS PlanetariumMuseum of Science puts on special experiences adapting the music of Pink Floyd, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and The Divas to immersive visuals in the Charles Hayden Planetarium.
Ongoing - ‘Firelei Báez’ Exhibition @ ICA One of the most exciting painters of her generation, Báez explores the multilayered legacy of colonial histories and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and beyond.
Ongoing - ‘Wordplay’ Exhibition @ ICA Highlighting the rich interplay between imagery and text, the exhibition showcases how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices.
Ongoing - ‘Hallyu! The Korean Wave’ Exhibition @ MFA Enjoy an immersive and multisensory journey through Korea’s fascinating history, and celebrate its contemporary vibrant creative force.
Ongoing - ‘Dress Up’ Exhibition @ MFA Through more than 100 works from the MFA’s collection including 20th- and 21st-century clothing, jewelry, accessories, illustrations, and photographs, this exhibition explores adornment and its role in the creation of a look.
Ongoing - ‘Mondrian: Foundations’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition presents 28 paintings and works on paper, primarily from Mondrian’s early career, that trace the artist’s explorations as he progressed from realistic traditions to experimental abstractions.
Ongoing - ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party’ Exhibition @ MFA This exhibition brings together 27 powerful photographs by Stephen Shames that feature the women of the Black Panther party and showcase their crucial work for the movement.
Ongoing - ‘Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale’ Exhibition @ MFA Featuring 15 intriguing objects from 17th-century Netherlands such as paintings, prints, silver medals, and books, this exhibition compels viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world around them.
Ongoing - ‘Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West’ Exhibition @ ISG Museum Shaw’s images of magic and mystery combine Western artistic tradition with ornamental elements derived from the Japanese, Persian, and Indian cultures that he vividly remembers from his youth.
Ongoing - ‘Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums The exhibition explores the dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain, imagery of death, struggles of good and evil, political and artistic revolution, and issues of desire and capture.
Ongoing - ‘Our Time on Earth’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum This traveling exhibition from the Barbican Centre in London celebrates the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency.
Ongoing - ‘AI: Mind the Gap’ Exhibition @ MIT MuseumMIT Museum presents its latest riveting, interactive exhibit exploring the tremendous promise, unforeseen impacts, and everyday misconceptions of AI.
2024.04.18 23:24 aburg98 Early Predictions for the S5 Newsreel
Hi Bob! Like many of you, I am excited for the next season of For All Mankind, as well as the show Star City, which we’ll be getting within the next few years assuming all goes to plan! Here is my early predictions for the Season 5 newsreel, I apologize if it is not up to par with S4 but I wanted to make it as current to the timeline as possible. Some points I’d like to make: I do think we’ll see a James Bragg presidency in S5 but only in the newsreel, and Rush Limbaugh is a placeholder. A lot of this is unrealistic I know but I’m throwing it out there!
2003 - Al Gore warns if any American on Mars involved with the Goldilocks heist returns to Earth, they will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, essentially banishing them from Earth
2004 - A handshake deal has been reached between Helios and the M7 nations on the assets of the Goldilocks asteroid, all parties are expected to receive $2.5 trillion for their countries’ programs - “Get in loser, we’re going shopping” Mean Girls scene - We’ll always be there for you: “Friends” aired its final episode and is watched by millions worldwide, inside and outside of the Iron Curtain - NASA has sent a probe to the planet Venus to survey the planet for future habitability - Michael Jordan announces retirement following Red Sox victory in the World Series - James Bragg defeats Al Gore in the election to become president of the United States - Seismic monitoring system alerts nations surrounding the Indian Ocean saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people following a major tsunami
2005 - James Bragg is sworn in as President with Rush Limbaugh as his Vice President - NASA to be defunded following incident on Mars in 2003 - The National Hockey League avoids a lockout thanks to investments from the US and Canadian governments - Mike Bishop and Timur Avilov sentenced to prison following abuse at Happy Valley and stripped of roles - A strong restoration effort in New Orleans is underway following Hurricane Katrina - Margo Madison is sentenced to life in prison following defection to the USSR
2006 - Analog television to cease broadcasting by February 2009 - The British Commonwealth for Space Flight (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom) in coalition with China and South Korea announce plans to open bases and embassies on both the Moon and Mars by the end of the decade - The US sends troops to Saudi Arabia to intervene in the Saudi Civil War - The first laser gun for combat is developed and if successful could the standard for combat
2007 - The FBI and CIA are to merge into the new Central Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence (CBII) - Seung-Hui Cho faces the death penalty following the Virginia Tech massacre - Asteroid Heist, starring Harrison Ford as Ed Baldwin is released to great fanfare and is the highest grossing space film - WWE wrestler Chris Benoit turned himself into police custody following the murder of his wife and son, he would subsequently be released from the WWE
2008 - The US and the Soviet Union avoid an economic recession which would have cost millions of dollars - Breaking Bad, Lost, and Happy Valley all dominate in the ratings as top dramas for the 2008 year - Bragg and Limbaugh concede defeat to John F. Kennedy Jr and VP Barack Obama - Victory in Saudi Arabia, the Americans capture the nation
2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 crashes en route back to LaGuardia Airport killing everyone on board - JFK Jr is sworn in - Singer Michael Jackson passes from heart failure at the age of 57 years old - NASA is re-funded by Congress with an effort to recapture the planet Mars from Helios CEO Dev Ayesa - The internet becomes public resembling chat rooms from the 90s in our timeline - Avatar is released in theatres re-igniting the space race
2010 - The US men’s ice hockey team stuns Canada on their home turf to win their first gold medal since 1960 at the Vancouver Winter Olympics - An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is prevented thanks to advances in infrastructure - John Lennon names One Direction the winner of The X-Factor UK, and their cover of the song “Forever Young” is a major worldwide hit
2011 - An earthquake hits Fukushima but the resulting nuclear disaster is prevented thanks to technology that prevented the Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union - A riot breaks out in Vancouver following the Canucks’ defeat in the Stanley Cup Finals - Alex Poletov celebrates his Sweet 16 in style on Mars - The California Zephyr train derails over the Colorado River killing everyone on board - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dies in office following what many believe to be a cardiac arrest, Kim Jong Un is the new North Korean leader
2012 - Kuznetsov Station is open for business
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2003 - Al Gore warns if any American on Mars involved with the Goldilocks heist returns to Earth, they will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, essentially banishing them from Earth
2004 - A handshake deal has been reached between Helios and the M7 nations on the assets of the Goldilocks asteroid, all parties are expected to receive $2.5 trillion for their countries’ programs - “Get in loser, we’re going shopping” Mean Girls scene - We’ll always be there for you: “Friends” aired its final episode and is watched by millions worldwide, inside and outside of the Iron Curtain - NASA has sent a probe to the planet Venus to survey the planet for future habitability - Michael Jordan announces retirement following Red Sox victory in the World Series - James Bragg defeats Al Gore in the election to become president of the United States - Seismic monitoring system alerts nations surrounding the Indian Ocean saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people following a major tsunami
2005 - James Bragg is sworn in as President with Rush Limbaugh as his Vice President - NASA to be defunded following incident on Mars in 2003 - The National Hockey League avoids a lockout thanks to investments from the US and Canadian governments - Mike Bishop and Timur Avilov sentenced to prison following abuse at Happy Valley and stripped of roles - A strong restoration effort in New Orleans is underway following Hurricane Katrina - Margo Madison is sentenced to life in prison following defection to the USSR
2006 - Analog television to cease broadcasting by February 2009 - The British Commonwealth for Space Flight (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom) in coalition with China and South Korea announce plans to open bases and embassies on both the Moon and Mars by the end of the decade - The US sends troops to Saudi Arabia to intervene in the Saudi Civil War - The first laser gun for combat is developed and if successful could the standard for combat
2007 - The FBI and CIA are to merge into the new Central Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence (CBII) - Seung-Hui Cho faces the death penalty following the Virginia Tech massacre - Asteroid Heist, starring Harrison Ford as Ed Baldwin is released to great fanfare and is the highest grossing space film - WWE wrestler Chris Benoit turned himself into police custody following the murder of his wife and son, he would subsequently be released from the WWE
2008 - The US and the Soviet Union avoid an economic recession which would have cost millions of dollars - Breaking Bad, Lost, and Happy Valley all dominate in the ratings as top dramas for the 2008 year - Bragg and Limbaugh concede defeat to John F. Kennedy Jr and VP Barack Obama - Victory in Saudi Arabia, the Americans capture the nation
2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 crashes en route back to LaGuardia Airport killing everyone on board - JFK Jr is sworn in - Singer Michael Jackson passes from heart failure at the age of 57 years old - NASA is re-funded by Congress with an effort to recapture the planet Mars from Helios CEO Dev Ayesa - The internet becomes public resembling chat rooms from the 90s in our timeline - Avatar is released in theatres re-igniting the space race
2010 - The US men’s ice hockey team stuns Canada on their home turf to win their first gold medal since 1960 at the Vancouver Winter Olympics - An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is prevented thanks to advances in infrastructure - John Lennon names One Direction the winner of The X-Factor UK, and their cover of the song “Forever Young” is a major worldwide hit
2011 - An earthquake hits Fukushima but the resulting nuclear disaster is prevented thanks to technology that prevented the Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union - A riot breaks out in Vancouver following the Canucks’ defeat in the Stanley Cup Finals - Alex Poletov celebrates his Sweet 16 in style on Mars - The California Zephyr train derails over the Colorado River killing everyone on board - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dies in office following what many believe to be a cardiac arrest, Kim Jong Un is the new North Korean leader
2012 - Kuznetsov Station is open for business
2024.04.17 21:30 gfRunningDev Race Report: Boston Marathon, not a complete disaster, but close
Race Information
- Name: Boston Marathon
- Date: April 15, 2024
- Distance: 26.2 miles
- Location: Boston, MA
- Website: https://www.baa.org/
- Time: 3:02:59
Goals
| Goal | Description | Completed? |
|---|---|---|
| A | Sub 2:40 | No |
| B | Sub 2:45 | No |
| C | Sub 3:00 | No |
| D | Finish | Yes |
Splits (according to Garmin)
| Mile | Time |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6:04 |
| 2 | 5:49 |
| 3 | 5:45 |
| 4 | 5:42 |
| 5 | 5:51 |
| 6 | 5:52 |
| 7 | 5:51 |
| 8 | 5:57 |
| 9 | 6:03 |
| 10 | 6:18 |
| 11 | 6:30 |
| 12 | 6:26 |
| 13 | 6:50 |
| 14 | 6:58 |
| 15 | 7:51 |
| 16 | 8:22 |
| 17 | 8:41 |
| 18 | 7:56 |
| 19 | 7:14 |
| 20 | 7:23 |
| 21 | 7:51 |
| 22 | 7:10 |
| 23 | 7:21 |
| 24 | 7:38 |
| 25 | 7:51 |
| 26 | 7:53 |
| 27 | 3:41 |
Boston Background
I'm a relative newbie when it comes to the marathon. In high school and college I was a 400m hurdler, occasionally doing an 800. Before junior year in college, I started running more distance on the roads and enjoyed it, but struggled with various injuries (mostly calf and achilles issues). Post-college I continued to dabble in some road races, inconsistent training, and fairly consistent injuries. Hopped on the barefoot/Vibram bandwagon back in 2010-2012ish, during which time I strung together some consistent training and races without injury, especially enjoying trail races.In 2016, on a whim, I entered the Maine Marathon the Friday before the race, with very little mileage under my belt that summer, other than some trail runs between 10-15 miles. Not knowing what to expect, I started conservatively, and with some cool weather and light rain that morning, I managed to finish in 2:47:xx, which qualified me for Boston 2018.
In 2017, I did the Maine Marathon again, this time after having spent a good portion of the summer and fall running up and down 4000+ ft mountains in New Hampshire. I figured this would prepare me well for the marathon, but I definitely didn't do any marathon specific training. I went out way too fast (hit 10 miles in under an hour), and quit at mile 16. In hindsight, there was nothing in my training that indicated I was ready to go that fast; honestly, I have no idea what I was thinking. I did come away from that race telling myself I would never pull out of a race again. That feeling sucked.
I ran Boston in 2018. My training leading up to it was decent, though mileage probably didn't get above 70 mpw at any point. I do remember doing a lot of hill running, but nothing crazy. I tend to run well in cold and rain, and that year Boston delivered. My pace was ambitious (~6:00 pace until about mile 16), then gradually slowed to ~7:30 by the end, finishing in 2:46:55. I don't remember much from that race, but I do remember being so cold that my legs felt like they were on autopilot. And my hands were so cold that I couldn't open gel packets, so I only took water and gatorade when I remembered to.
Training
After running a PR at the Maine Marathon last year (2:44:25) on a fairly abbreviated stretch of training last summer (peaking at just under 75 miles in early September), I decided I would do two things in preparation for Boston:- Increase my weekly mileage throughout the late fall and winter
- Follow an actual training plan as much as possible.
- Run in "modern" shoes. Last fall I ran my PR in Saucony Ride 15s. I figured I left several minutes on the table doing that, so I resolved to get some training in with something faster.
61, 70, 75, 90, 91, 90, 88, 83, 91, 96, 96, 86, 85, 67, 99, 100, 104, 90, 90, 88, 80, 60, 53
For a training plan, I used Daniels 2Q 71-85 mpw. However, during the month of January I pretty much only did the Q2 workouts because my oldest kid was taking ski lessons on Sundays, and it was impossible to find any other time during the week to get in the Q1 workouts. So I figured keeping the consistent mileage was worth more than risking injury by squeezing workouts in. I had some solid workouts that seemed to indicate I was capable of maintaining 6:00 pace for the marathon, so I optimistically set my goal there.
For shoes, after some experimentation, I ended up choosing some Adios Pro 3s. They seem to work with my biomechanics - however, I'll note that I still haven't quite mastered how to run in super shoes. For some reason, my quads always seem to tire more quickly with them. I can't tell if it's because it's harder to reign myself in at the beginning of runs, or if I'm overstriding, or something else. But I had a couple magical runs in the AP3s so they seemed like a safe bet.
Approaching the race, I already knew I had some weaknesses, but I wasn't sure how much they would affect my race:
- I hadn't managed to do much hill running. I live in a fairly flat part of Maine, so running a hilly route pretty much means I have to run for a while to get there, or drive. And with my time spread so thin between 2 young kids (ages 5 and 2), full time job, and getting hit with preschool viruses consistently every two weeks this winter, I didn't have much motivation to spend time driving to then spend time running.
- Basically no lifting. Prior to Boston 2018, I was regularly (1-2 days a week) doing squats and other lifting.
- Lots of runs on the treadmill, probably more than 50%. I did most of my runs early in the morning (usually waking up at 4:30 or earlier) while the kids were asleep. And I did not take advantage of the incline on the treadmill - just wasn't motivated to do so.
- While I thought so much running on the treadmill would prepare me for the heat we had this year, I think the reduced pounding due to it being a treadmill probably cancelled out any gains. And maybe made the direct sun this year feel much more punishing.
- I struggled a lot with nutrition this winter. After a few of my longer runs (18+ miles) my stomach felt terrible for hours. Once or twice I vomited about an hour later. I talked with a nutritionist about this, and she suspected I was dehydrated and not getting enough calories. This was probably true, since I pretty much never ran with water or any nutrition until after this conversation. So I tried running with a hand-held bottle, with a hydration mix from Infinit. This may have helped a bit, but I still had issues with post-run stomach distress. I still don't feel confident in my ability to meet my nutrition and hydration needs during a marathon.
Pre-race
Travelled down to Boston with some family who were running, picked up my number, hit the expo quickly, walked down to the finish line, then we drove out to Needham to stay with family for the night. My stomach had felt off for at least a few days before Sunday, so I had been trying to increase my carbohydrate percentage over that time but probably wasn't where I needed to be calorie-wise. I don't if it was nerves or a stomach bug of some sort. I had also fought off the latest preschool cold the week before, and was still struggling with the post-cold symptoms the week leading up to the race, so I'm sure that didn't help. Tried to eat a mostly carb meal for dinner, but my stomach still wasn't feeling right. Managed to get a decent 6ish hours of sleep the night before, but just wasn't feeling tired.We got a ride to Hopkinton State Park in the morning, where we caught a bus to town. We got there around 9:20. Proceeded to walk up the left-hand side of the street along the corrals, and then realized I couldn't enter from that side, so I had to walk down to the intersection, back up the street, then hang a 180 to join the flow of Wave 1 runners to get to my corral. No biggie, but definitely not expected. I had brought a ziploc bag with four Salt tabs; I took one of them once I got into my corral.
Race
I remember thinking before the start, this was the first time in a while that I've really felt the sun's heat since the fall. That should have been a warning sign, but I ignored it. Granted, I pretty much ignored all of the weaknesses I mentioned above. The start felt super slow, clipping my stride constantly to avoid tripping other people. For the first three miles I felt like I was holding back, yet I was below 5:50 pace for miles 2 and 3 and just couldn't (or perhaps stubbornly wounldn't allow myself to) get above 6:00 pace. Looking back, this was obviously my biggest mistake - not only was I not respecting the course, but also not respecting the conditions.By 10k my quads were already feeling heavy. I didn't realize it at the time but by this point my heart rate had been at or above 180 for the last 5 miles, and remained above 180 until about mile 11 when the wheels came off. I think when I saw the 10 mile split (59:10) I realized how deep a hole I had dug myself, and this was going to be a tough 16 miles, if I had it in me at all.
Between mile 10 and 14, my pace dropped from low 6:xx to low 7:xx, more or less felt like I was jogging, but couldn't will my legs to go any faster. I was also struggling through some stomach cramps, likely from all the fluids I had taken in. Note, at this point I had completely forgotted about the Salt tabs I had brought along. Went through Wellesley and got as many high-fives as I could; the energy sure gave me a boost that lasted for about 10 seconds after the crowds, and deflated pretty quickly. I stopped to walk at the aid station at mile 14; my first of four stops, one at each water station between 14 and 18. Very seriously considered pulling out at that point, and I actually stepped onto the sidewalk and walked for about a minute, drinking some Gatorade and reflecting on my stupidity up to this point. At some point during that minute I decided I was going to finish unless I collapsed, mainly because I had no idea what it would take to get myself to the finish area if I actually did pull out, and secondarily feeling that I might as well enjoy the crowds as much as I could at this point.
So between 14 and 18 I had completely changed my mindset. I jogged as slowly as I had to to keep moving. Walked the aid stations. High-fived everyone I could find. Gave words of encouragement to several runners who were walking or stopped. I convinced one runner in a black singlet, who was walking as I was shuffling past him, to join me. We jogged along together for a while, I never did get his name. Eventually I felt like I was redlining again (probably at 7:30 pace haha) and he left me in the dust.
Funny enough, my pace through the Newton Hills actually improved. Probably from my recovery jogging in the previous miles. I was in such a strange state; I didn't feel like I was redlining, but there was no way my legs would go any faster. Plus I had some wicked stomach cramps. But my leg muscles weren't cramping too badly, so I just kept moving.
The last 6 miles were a blur. Things I remember:
- High-fiving people in the crowds. This, more than anything else, kept me moving forward.
- No amount of water dumped on any part of my body made it felt like I was cooling off
- At one point I must've gotten confused whether I was drinking gatorade or dumping water on my head. I just remember throwing Gatorade into my face and it ended up in my nose and mouth. That was lovely.
- At some point I started taking random food from people. A watermelon slice, orange slices, a nasty orange freezer pop.
- I tried (for the first time ever) a Maurten caffeine gel that I had stashed from one of the depos earlier on. It tasted terrible, so I spat it out.
- I just hugged the right side of the course as much as possible, there seemed to be more shade there.
Post-race
For about 5-10 minutes after I was ok. I kept slowly walking, grabbed water, finish bag, medal, etc. Around the spot where there were BAA backdrops where people could take pictures, I started to feel nauseous. Proceeded to vomit behind one of the backdrops. Vomit was the color of the nasty orange freezer pop, and all liquid other than the watermelon and whatever pieces of orange I had eaten on the course. Another runner kindly fetched a BAA volunteer, who loaded me into a wheelchair and whisked me to the med tent. This was about 1:15 PM. At that point my stomach felt better, BAA med volunteers took my vitals, had me lay down, take in some warm broth. That seemed to help a bit, so I tried sitting up, and taking a walk around the tent. Soon after that I started feeling nauseous again, vomited again, laid down again. Attempted to eat a bit of banana. Started feeling better, sat up, didn't even attempt to walk around again and vomited. At this point, they drew my blood in prep for an IV. My sodium was low, so they put me on an IV. A liter of IV fluid later, I felt 90% better, had some salty chips, managed to sit up, walk around the tent, and they released me soon after. I was in the med tent for a little over two hours.Eventually managed to find my support crew and we got out of the city around 4:45 PM. Ice water, cold beer, and pizza were amazing for dinner. Got home around 9:30 PM, crashed soon after. I'm amazed at how little soreness I have in my legs. Calves aren't sore at all, quads are sore but I can move up and down stairs without trouble. I think it's a combination of being reduced to a jog for more than half the marathon, and the IV I received afterward. Regardless, LOTS of lessons were learned this time around. Still working on some answers to some other things (nutrition, shoes, heat acclimation).
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2024.04.17 16:02 _Exegy_ 2025 4CC in Seoul rescheduled to February 18-23
https://isu.org/isu-news/news/145-news/15002-rescheduling-of-isu-four-continents-figure-skating-championships-2025?templateParam=15
"The International Skating Union (ISU) announces a modification to the dates of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2025 scheduled to be held in Seoul (KOR). Responding to a request from the Korean Skating Union (KSU), the ISU Council has approved the rescheduling of the Championships to February 18-23, 2025."
The previous date range was February 4-9. The move could be due to the Asian Winter Games being scheduled February 7-14. South Korean men who win gold medals at Asian Games earn an exemption from military service.
A possible consequence of the rescheduling is that it may make 4CC an easier turnaround for US skaters, who typically perform at Nationals toward the end of January in a non-Olympic year.
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"The International Skating Union (ISU) announces a modification to the dates of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2025 scheduled to be held in Seoul (KOR). Responding to a request from the Korean Skating Union (KSU), the ISU Council has approved the rescheduling of the Championships to February 18-23, 2025."
The previous date range was February 4-9. The move could be due to the Asian Winter Games being scheduled February 7-14. South Korean men who win gold medals at Asian Games earn an exemption from military service.
A possible consequence of the rescheduling is that it may make 4CC an easier turnaround for US skaters, who typically perform at Nationals toward the end of January in a non-Olympic year.
2024.04.17 15:38 findtheswimmingpool Race Report - First Marathon (BOSTON). Smashed expectations.
Race Information
- Name: Boston Marathon
- Date: April 15, 2024
- Distance: 26.2 miles
- Location: Boston MA
- Website: https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon
- Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11189895632
- Time: 3:54:16
Goals
| Goal | Description | Completed? |
|---|---|---|
| 90% probability goal | Finish | Yes |
| 50% probability goal | Sub 4:30 | Yes |
| 10% probability goal | Sub 4:15 | Yes |
| 1% probability goal | Sub 4:00 | Yes |
| 0.1% probability goal | Sub 3:55 | YES WHAT THE FUCK |
Splits
| Mile | Time |
|---|---|
| 1 | 9:25 |
| 2 | 9:06 |
| 3 | 9:09 |
| 4 | 8:46 |
| 5 | 9:00 |
| 6 | 8:49 |
| 7 | 8:41 |
| 8 | 8:48 |
| 9 | 8:33 |
| 10 | 8:34 |
| 11 | 8:37 |
| 12 | 8:17 |
| 13 | 8:23 |
| 14 | 8:14 |
| 15 | 8:15 |
| 16 | 7:52 |
| 17 | 8:48 |
| 18 | 8:49 |
| 19 | 8:43 |
| 20 | 9:04 |
| 21 | 9:25 |
| 22 | 8:53 |
| 23 | 9:29 |
| 24 | 9:27 |
| 25 | 9:25 |
| 26 | 9:31 |
| 26.2 | ? |
Training
I live in NYC (31M). I was big into cycling last summer but when temperatures got too cold, I switched to running. I had already been running 1-2 times per week but very short distances (3-5 mi) with no real plan. In the fall, I decided to run a marathon given I had 4-5 months to prepare. I got into the Boston Marathon by running for a charity. I had never run a race before. I get lots of running injuries anytime I try to increase volume so my biggest worry was staying injury-free. I dedicated lots of time to strengthening, stretching, mobility, and plyometrics to make sure my legs could handle training.I followed Hal Higdon's 3-day a week plan with some modifications -- most notably, cut from three 20 mile long runs to just one. Overall the Higdon plan is 5 workouts per week (3x running, 2x cross). I also kept my normal lifting schedule (bodybuilding-focused) of 4x/week so it was a lot of work on my body but I tried to make it work. About halfway into the plan I got shin splints. I saw a PT who helped me change my foot strike. It fixed my shin splints but ended up causing runner's knee. I was able to solve that with strength and plyometrics.
Running through the NYC winter sucked, especially since I run first thing in the morning when temps are coldest, but I didn't skip any workouts. Discipline > motivation.
My easy pace is around 10:30-11min/mile so was shooting for a 4:30hr goal time.
Pre-race
Got into Boston on Saturday -- an easy train ride up from NYC. Ate lots of carbs (Chicken Yaki Udon, Pad Thai, Spaghetti, Bagels).Morning of the race was my biggest concern. I usually run fasted without caffeine at 6am, but since the start time is 11:15am I knew I would have to have both food and caffeine to make it through the day. For breakfast, I had coffee with a bagel with peanut butter and banana with some electrolytes. I also ate a Clif Bar about an hour before the race.
The buses dropped me off in Athlete's Village at 10:25am. I thought I would have lots of time to warm up and get changed but they called my wave at 10:40am, just 15 mins later. All I had time to do was go to the bathroom and change my shoes and do some light active mobility. I felt rushed and wasn't mentally prepared. It was a 0.7 mile walk to the start line where I was really nervous as it was my first RACE not even just first marathon. I had no idea what to expect. My heart was racing while standing in the corall with 5 mins to go.
Race
My gameplan was to break up the race into three chunks. Miles 1-10: run easy and treat it as an extended warmup. Miles 11 - 21: use my fitness I developed in training to pick up the pace slightly and make it through Newton Hills. Miles 21+: give it all I have left with my heart.In reality, this all went out the window.
Here are the challenges I faced immediately out of the gate:
The first challenge was the heat. It was 70 degrees and sunny. I had done all my training under 40 degrees so I was not used to this at all. Out of the gate, I felt dizzy and was worried I would develop more serious heat exhaustion.
The second challenge was food. I was nauseous from the start since my stomach wasn’t used to all this food before running.
The third challenge was how crowded it was. I was in the last wave so lots of slower runners so the entire first 2-3 miles was just weaving around and through people and trying to find some open space to run in a straight line. I wasted so much energy.
The fourth challenge was water. I usually run with a running vest and sip pretty often, a few times every mile. I wasn’t used to only having a tiny cup of water once every mile. My mouth was dry and I was dying for more water.
By mile 5, I was already gassed. I realized I had gone out way too fast and there was no way I could hold this pace for the race so I would need to slow down. I was planning on running 10 min/mile for the first 10 miles but I looked at my watch and my average pace was already like 9 min/mile. This is really fast to me and I was freaking out what to do. I knew I had to slow down.
Miles 5 - 10: I felt less nauseous and better with the heat. I actually felt good but had trouble slowing down with all the energy from the crowds. There weren’t really any hills here and so I was cruising along at ~8:45min/mi pace. It was still hard but I was just trying to get to mile 10 where I had planned to put in my headphones and listen to music to give myself a boost.
Miles 10-13: I put in headphones and turned on some music. I’m starting to struggle but told myself I just need to get to halfway. ~8:30min/mi pace. This is basically threshold for me. I usually do my interval runs at this pace.
Miles 13-16: Just holding steady awaiting the Newton Hills. Somehow going even faster I don’t even know how. ~8:15min/mi pace.
Miles 16-21: Dear lord what the fuck.. The hills are way bigger than I imagined. I’m do my training in Central Park in NYC so figured they would be similar to that but I was wrong, they seemed much longer. My legs start cramping. My inner thigh, quads, and calves are spasming. I knew that if I stop or walk, my race is going to be over. I don’t think I’d be able to get my legs working again so I just run through all the pain. I’m downing salt pills and taking an extra gel here to make sure I am getting enough fuel. I start taking Gatordade and Water at the aid stations. It feels like I’m going at 15 min/mi pace but somehow my watch is telling me ~9 min/mi.
Miles 21-25: It somehow gets even worse. I only have ~5 miles left but I know there is no way my legs will hold on for another ~45 mins. It will only take 1 really bad cramp to just completely derail me and force me to walk. I’m downing gels and salt pills. I’m gritting my teeth. My legs feel detached from my body. Every time my foot slams the pavement I feel my muscles spasm. Everything is tight. I’m weaving through a sea of people walking and limping like I’m in a zombie movie. I wouldn’t wish this feeling on my worst enemy. I tell myself that this is what I asked for and these 5 miles are what the last 6 months have been about. Holding on for dear life at 9:30 min/mi.
Mile 26: With only 1 mile to go, I felt much better. I knew it was only going to be ~10 mins more of pain and the crowds were getting so loud. Once I could see the finish line it was way easier.
I look at my watch and somehow see my finish time starts with a “3”. I’m blown away. Every race predictor and calculator I used online told me to shoot for a 4:30. I even made a reddit post a few weeks ago asking my goal pace and was told a 4:20-4:30 is where I should be targeting. I smashed that by like 30 minutes.
This was the hardest thing I’ve done in my life. I gave it everything I had and couldn't have gone a second faster. I left it all out there and was ready to die on the course in that last 10k. This was a 4 hour battle of dehydration, nausea, cramping, heat, weaving through crowds, downhills, and uphills.
Post-race
The sense of accomplishment was overwhelming. I felt like crying honestly. I waddled through with the other finishers to get some water, pick up my medal, and find my gf. We grabbed some Shake Shack and hop on the Amtrak back to NYC.2024.04.17 03:45 Wh1zkeyW1zard The Obelisk (A Dream Story)
Hello Jesse, Alex, & Mathas, & Possible Guest(s),
First of all, big fan of all of you, I have been watching Jesse however the longest, since the RPGMaker days I believe. Allow me to first start this off by letting you know that it is perfectly okay to tell this story on the podcast, and second allow me to do what I've been taught to do through jesses ending credits on many a video which is "advertise like a shameless whore", I am making this dream into a game called Obelisk and you can look at some of the art on my Reddit account and I will also be putting links to my other socials at the end of the post so please take a look at them! and without further ado let me begin. This dream came to me unsurprisingly after watching a documentary about the Kola Superdeep Borehole for a little backstory I am a massive Lovecraft fan and a massive history fan so I'm sure you can already kinda guess where this story is going, at least to some degree. In this dream, I awaken out of a smallish bed in an older creeky wood and stone house on the outskirts of some town(not sure where, but I see red flags and I could see other buildings in the distance), and beyond that a dark lush forest. I get up and stretch with some tightness that doesn't go away after stretching, I then look into a mirror above an old dresser( the type with the mirror built-in) and I am not myself I am an older (probably in my late 50s, early 60s) more Eastern European man with salt and pepper hair and a more salt than pepper beard and as I turn and look at the bed I see two depressions and I then realize that my wife isn't there but I don't seem surprised about it, I then walk downstairs and I seem to be expecting something and I am not sure what but as I reach the bottom and look at the front door and in particular the letter slot on the door and then onto the ground below it, my heart sinks. It seemed I was expecting something which did not arrive I then continued into the kitchen to make something to eat (something with bread and cheese and meat and eggs) and some hot drink( I assume to be coffee ) and I sat at a small round table which is in front of a window with a view to the outside I can now tell that it is early in the morning the sun has barely started to rise and in the far distance, I see dark clouds. As I look around the house I see photos and papers and medals all framed some of which I can sorta recognize and some having a soviet union emblem on them and then an abrupt noise suddenly makes me snap my head forward and I feel excited. I get up and run to the door and there is no one there but there is a newspaper on the ground and on it is writing that made no sense to me. Though it looked vaguely like Cyrillic and under the newspaper was a letter and though I had no idea what the letter said I got upset once I had read it and I sprinted upstairs and changed into winter clothes and grabbed my keys and got into a small truck and drove off then my dream skips. I am suddenly driving in a snowstorm, this had not become a blizzard quite yet but it was getting there and it was getting dark so I assumed I had been driving for a while. Deep dark woods surrounded me, and the old truck I was in didn't have the best headlights so the visibility on the road was pretty terrible all I could see was the snow rushing at the car as I sped along what was a surprisingly well taken care of back road and this continued for a while until it got dark. The snowstorm picked up into a blizzard and there was lightning accompanying it, as I drove along, the truck shook assuming it was from the wind I kept pressing on until a very bright lighting strike right above the truck flashed and with it, a large pale white entity appeared from the darkness and stomped into the middle of the road causing me to swerve to avoid it. I then crashed into a tree and jumped out to look at the being that caused me to crash and it was nowhere to be seen. I somehow knew I was close to my location so, I grabbed a bag out of my car and started walking toward my destination. The blizzard got much worse as I walked and I had to cover my face just to even be able to see a couple of feet in front of me, then suddenly, I saw a wandering light in the distance and it led me to a clearing and there the blizzard calmed yet the wind still screamed, I saw my destination the Kola Superdeep Borehole and as I go to start approaching it I notice that even from a distance it seemed abandoned, now with panic building in me as I walk from the edge of the clearing I notice that the wondering light a bright yellowish colored light, starts to flicker a slickly greyish white and as it does the Kola Facility starts to change with every light flicker and the best way to describe it is it looked like the upside down from stranger things except pale cracked skin with tentacles and mouths and eyes that looked white and messed up like they were blind everywhere and the sky was also a swirling mess of arms and eyes and mouths everything was moving and everything was uniform it terms of the color pallett and where the Kola facility was, was Pitch black obelisk emitting a sickining sound and a pale white light. The sound and the light both kept increasing until it was all I could hear and see and then, I woke up. There was a ringing noise in my ears and I could feel my heartbeat a little, I've had other dreams like this but none that I could remember so vividly.
let me know what y'all think feel free to interpret it and feel free to message me if you have any questions or anything!
Thank you!
Matt (aka Whiskey Wizard)
Links:
https://www.reddit.com/useWh1zkeyW1zard/
https://twitter.com/WhiskeyWizGames
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YPwhi57RmJZEvRKqVsRrw
https://www.instagram.com/whiskeywizardstudio/
https://bsky.app/profile/whiskeywizard.bsky.social
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First of all, big fan of all of you, I have been watching Jesse however the longest, since the RPGMaker days I believe. Allow me to first start this off by letting you know that it is perfectly okay to tell this story on the podcast, and second allow me to do what I've been taught to do through jesses ending credits on many a video which is "advertise like a shameless whore", I am making this dream into a game called Obelisk and you can look at some of the art on my Reddit account and I will also be putting links to my other socials at the end of the post so please take a look at them! and without further ado let me begin. This dream came to me unsurprisingly after watching a documentary about the Kola Superdeep Borehole for a little backstory I am a massive Lovecraft fan and a massive history fan so I'm sure you can already kinda guess where this story is going, at least to some degree. In this dream, I awaken out of a smallish bed in an older creeky wood and stone house on the outskirts of some town(not sure where, but I see red flags and I could see other buildings in the distance), and beyond that a dark lush forest. I get up and stretch with some tightness that doesn't go away after stretching, I then look into a mirror above an old dresser( the type with the mirror built-in) and I am not myself I am an older (probably in my late 50s, early 60s) more Eastern European man with salt and pepper hair and a more salt than pepper beard and as I turn and look at the bed I see two depressions and I then realize that my wife isn't there but I don't seem surprised about it, I then walk downstairs and I seem to be expecting something and I am not sure what but as I reach the bottom and look at the front door and in particular the letter slot on the door and then onto the ground below it, my heart sinks. It seemed I was expecting something which did not arrive I then continued into the kitchen to make something to eat (something with bread and cheese and meat and eggs) and some hot drink( I assume to be coffee ) and I sat at a small round table which is in front of a window with a view to the outside I can now tell that it is early in the morning the sun has barely started to rise and in the far distance, I see dark clouds. As I look around the house I see photos and papers and medals all framed some of which I can sorta recognize and some having a soviet union emblem on them and then an abrupt noise suddenly makes me snap my head forward and I feel excited. I get up and run to the door and there is no one there but there is a newspaper on the ground and on it is writing that made no sense to me. Though it looked vaguely like Cyrillic and under the newspaper was a letter and though I had no idea what the letter said I got upset once I had read it and I sprinted upstairs and changed into winter clothes and grabbed my keys and got into a small truck and drove off then my dream skips. I am suddenly driving in a snowstorm, this had not become a blizzard quite yet but it was getting there and it was getting dark so I assumed I had been driving for a while. Deep dark woods surrounded me, and the old truck I was in didn't have the best headlights so the visibility on the road was pretty terrible all I could see was the snow rushing at the car as I sped along what was a surprisingly well taken care of back road and this continued for a while until it got dark. The snowstorm picked up into a blizzard and there was lightning accompanying it, as I drove along, the truck shook assuming it was from the wind I kept pressing on until a very bright lighting strike right above the truck flashed and with it, a large pale white entity appeared from the darkness and stomped into the middle of the road causing me to swerve to avoid it. I then crashed into a tree and jumped out to look at the being that caused me to crash and it was nowhere to be seen. I somehow knew I was close to my location so, I grabbed a bag out of my car and started walking toward my destination. The blizzard got much worse as I walked and I had to cover my face just to even be able to see a couple of feet in front of me, then suddenly, I saw a wandering light in the distance and it led me to a clearing and there the blizzard calmed yet the wind still screamed, I saw my destination the Kola Superdeep Borehole and as I go to start approaching it I notice that even from a distance it seemed abandoned, now with panic building in me as I walk from the edge of the clearing I notice that the wondering light a bright yellowish colored light, starts to flicker a slickly greyish white and as it does the Kola Facility starts to change with every light flicker and the best way to describe it is it looked like the upside down from stranger things except pale cracked skin with tentacles and mouths and eyes that looked white and messed up like they were blind everywhere and the sky was also a swirling mess of arms and eyes and mouths everything was moving and everything was uniform it terms of the color pallett and where the Kola facility was, was Pitch black obelisk emitting a sickining sound and a pale white light. The sound and the light both kept increasing until it was all I could hear and see and then, I woke up. There was a ringing noise in my ears and I could feel my heartbeat a little, I've had other dreams like this but none that I could remember so vividly.
let me know what y'all think feel free to interpret it and feel free to message me if you have any questions or anything!
Thank you!
Matt (aka Whiskey Wizard)
Links:
https://www.reddit.com/useWh1zkeyW1zard/
https://twitter.com/WhiskeyWizGames
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YPwhi57RmJZEvRKqVsRrw
https://www.instagram.com/whiskeywizardstudio/
https://bsky.app/profile/whiskeywizard.bsky.social
2024.04.16 17:37 Harry_Hayfield May I make a series of contributions both before the Games and during the Games?
Namely:
Before the Games: A daily countdown to the Games posting the medals table for the past 31 Olympics of the Modern Era as well as noting the first and last medal to be awarded in each Games and the winner of the Baron du Cobertain award (from it's inception)
Opening Ceremony: A live AMA on the history of opening ceremonies including explainations of the elements in the ceremony as they happen
During the Games: Daily Medal Tally Summaries and Updated Medal Tables
Closing Ceremony: A live AMA on the history of closing ceremonies including explainations of the elements in the ceremony as they happen
And then doing the same for the Paralympics and then repeating said process for every Winter and Summer Games thereafter?
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Before the Games: A daily countdown to the Games posting the medals table for the past 31 Olympics of the Modern Era as well as noting the first and last medal to be awarded in each Games and the winner of the Baron du Cobertain award (from it's inception)
Opening Ceremony: A live AMA on the history of opening ceremonies including explainations of the elements in the ceremony as they happen
During the Games: Daily Medal Tally Summaries and Updated Medal Tables
Closing Ceremony: A live AMA on the history of closing ceremonies including explainations of the elements in the ceremony as they happen
And then doing the same for the Paralympics and then repeating said process for every Winter and Summer Games thereafter?
2024.04.16 00:00 AdmiralWacArnold Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon Race Report
Name: Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon Date: 4/14/2024 Distance: 26.2 Location: Rehoboth, Delaware Time: 2:52:09 Goals 2:50 was my goal time and how I planned my splits. Splits Mile Time 1: 6:22 2: 6:20 3: 6:27 4: 6:18 5: 6:25 6: 6:28 7: 6:30 8: 6:35 9: 6:29 10: 6:39 11: 6:27 12: 6:27 13: 6:24 14: 6:32 15: 6:34 16: 6:34 17: 6:38 18: 6:27 19: 6:30 20: 6:31 21: 6:33 22: 6:39 23: 6:45 24: 6:42 25: 6:39 26: 6:42 26.2:28 Training 32 M, Double shots of Jack Daniels (2Q) for 18 weeks, 100 miles peak weeks. After completing the NYC marathon last year (2:58, Pfitz 18/85) I knew I needed to shave off serval more minutes to have a shot of making the 2025 Boston cut. I took 5 days off completely and started easing back into running. I targeted the Cheap Marathon as my goal race seeing the very gradual rolling hills and time trial start as a good race to PR. I wanted to bump up my milage from Pfitz, but wanted more flexibility in my plan so I chose Jack Daniels 2Q for this training cycle. The first few weeks kicked my butt as the Q sessions felt tougher than most Pfitz workouts and I was running my E miles on fairly hilly routes. I started to burnout a bit so I took the first "bolded" workout as an E day and started running most of my E days on much flatter routes. After about 6 or 7 weeks into the 2Q plan I adapted and was able to execute the workouts. My milage was taking up and I hit my first 100 mile week. I completed most of my Q sessions on the local greenway to avoid street traffic, unless it was really rainy where to Greenway floods out and I run in the hillier parts of town. I enjoyed the flexibility of Daniels program as I could fit E miles to my schedule. I doubled most Sunday, Mondays and Fridays when I was around peak milage. A week out from Cheap Marathon the weather forecast called for a Spring Nor'easter. The snow from the storm ended up cancelling the scheduled race date so I targeted my backup race, the Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon, which fell a 8 days after my original target race date. I more or less reset my plan back from the new race date. It was basically an extra week of taper which my legs didn't mind, but did worry me about losing a bit of marathon distance since it pushed me further away from my last few longer runs, 18+ miles. Race The weather for the race was quite good, starting around 50°F considering how windy it was the day before and later that afternoon, so I appreciated the 7 AM start time. I arrived at the boardwalk which is where the start and finish line was about an hour before the start. I used the restroom a final time, laced up my race shoes (Asics Metaspeed Sky Paris), downed a caffeine gel, and jogged towards the start as my warmup. I lined up towards the front since my goal time would have been top 10 in the previous year. The race started promptly on time which is always appreciated. First few miles were on the roads through the beach neighborhood and then headed to the nearby State Park. Once in the park the path became crushed gravel, which I didn't really train on since I planned on running cheap marathon. The surface didn't cause any real issues, but I could feel a tad bit of slippage in my toe off compared to running on pavement. There was a section that ran over elevated boardwalk and the later sections were paved. The views were beautiful in the park, so it made up for the sparse crowd support. The park had a couple very small hills and a few twists and turns that slowed down the pace, but overall a scenic and interesting part of the course. Exiting the park we ran towards Lewes beach on a paved greenway trail that headed dead straight for several miles at a time. At Lewes Beach we had an out and back that ran parallel to the coast during which the course hit the halfway point. Leaving Lewes we transitioned to running on the road, crossed a bridge which was the last real hill, and faced a decent headwind but thankfully it was not too bad. Aid stations were spaced about every 2 miles stocked with water and Gatorade. There were a couple with gels, but I carried all of my own nutrition so I only grabbed wateGatorade. I took a total of 6 SIS beta fuel gels with me on the course, 2 of which we caffeine, every other aid station. The gels always weigh down my shorts in the early parts of the race, but naturally get lighter as I progress. I had a few salt stick tabs too that I took around the halfway point. About mile 18 I was feeling quite full from my nutrition, starting to feel the fatigue, and fell the bright sun as it was warming up a good bit. My training prepared me well though because I had felt quite similarly quite often during my Q sessions during my training, minus the warmth since I trained through the winter. There were several final miles that returned back to crushed gravel. I was worried that now with more tired legs that this could cause me issues. I had my left calf flare up with the warning signs of a cramp. When this would happen I'd ease up for about 10 strides and let my right leg take the lead. Fortunately it never seized up, which had happened twice during my training cycle. The final 2 miles or so of the race returned to pavement thankfully and I focused on holding my pace as best I could and closing out. The last half mile merged with the half marathoners which were running a bit slower so there was some maneuvering required. At that point I was emptying the tank with everything I had just wanting to finish and save every second that I could. I crossed the finish line relieved to be finished! Post-race I was handed a hat, water bottle, and given my finisher medal. I was quite happy with my time In all of my marathons now I usually finish about minutes slower that how I set my splits. my first marathon I was surprised, but there is always some sort of slow down either with aid stations, fatigue, or general race confusion. Hopefully I have enough cushion to get into Boston, but you really never know especially since there have been so many fast times at big races this qualifying period.
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2024.04.15 23:58 AdmiralWacArnold Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon Race Report
Name: Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon Date: 4/14/2024 Distance: 26.2 Location: Rehoboth, Delaware Time: 2:52:09 Goals 2:50 was my goal time and how I planned my splits. Splits Mile Time 1: 6:22 2: 6:20 3: 6:27 4: 6:18 5: 6:25 6: 6:28 7: 6:30 8: 6:35 9: 6:29 10: 6:39 11: 6:27 12: 6:27 13: 6:24 14: 6:32 15: 6:34 16: 6:34 17: 6:38 18: 6:27 19: 6:30 20: 6:31 21: 6:33 22: 6:39 23: 6:45 24: 6:42 25: 6:39 26: 6:42 26.2:28 Training 32 M, Double shots of Jack Daniels (2Q) for 18 weeks, 100 miles peak weeks. After completing the NYC marathon last year (2:58, Pfitz 18/85) I knew I needed to shave off serval more minutes to have a shot of making the 2025 Boston cut. I took 5 days off completely and started easing back into running. I targeted the Cheap Marathon as my goal race seeing the very gradual rolling hills and time trial start as a good race to PR. I wanted to bump up my milage from Pfitz, but wanted more flexibility in my plan so I chose Jack Daniels 2Q for this training cycle. The first few weeks kicked my butt as the Q sessions felt tougher than most Pfitz workouts and I was running my E miles on fairly hilly routes. I started to burnout a bit so I took the first "bolded" workout as an E day and started running most of my E days on much flatter routes. After about 6 or 7 weeks into the 2Q plan I adapted and was able to execute the workouts. My milage was taking up and I hit my first 100 mile week. I completed most of my Q sessions on the local greenway to avoid street traffic, unless it was really rainy where to Greenway floods out and I run in the hillier parts of town. I enjoyed the flexibility of Daniels program as I could fit E miles to my schedule. I doubled most Sunday, Mondays and Fridays when I was around peak milage. A week out from Cheap Marathon the weather forecast called for a Spring Nor'easter. The snow from the storm ended up cancelling the scheduled race date so I targeted my backup race, the Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon, which fell a 8 days after my original target race date. I more or less reset my plan back from the new race date. It was basically an extra week of taper which my legs didn't mind, but did worry me about losing a bit of marathon distance since it pushed me further away from my last few longer runs, 18+ miles. Race The weather for the race was quite good, starting around 50°F considering how windy it was the day before and later that afternoon, so I appreciated the 7 AM start time. I arrived at the boardwalk which is where the start and finish line was about an hour before the start. I used the restroom a final time, laced up my race shoes (Asics Metaspeed Sky Paris), downed a caffeine gel, and jogged towards the start as my warmup. I lined up towards the front since my goal time would have been top 10 in the previous year. The race started promptly on time which is always appreciated. First few miles were on the roads through the beach neighborhood and then headed to the nearby State Park. Once in the park the path became crushed gravel, which I didn't really train on since I planned on running cheap marathon. The surface didn't cause any real issues, but I could feel a tad bit of slippage in my toe off compared to running on pavement. There was a section that ran over elevated boardwalk and the later sections were paved. The views were beautiful in the park, so it made up for the sparse crowd support. The park had a couple very small hills and a few twists and turns that slowed down the pace, but overall a scenic and interesting part of the course. Exiting the park we ran towards Lewes beach on a paved greenway trail that headed dead straight for several miles at a time. At Lewes Beach we had an out and back that ran parallel to the coast during which the course hit the halfway point. Leaving Lewes we transitioned to running on the road, crossed a bridge which was the last real hill, and faced a decent headwind but thankfully it was not too bad. Aid stations were spaced about every 2 miles stocked with water and Gatorade. There were a couple with gels, but I carried all of my own nutrition so I only grabbed wateGatorade. I took a total of 6 SIS beta fuel gels with me on the course, 2 of which we caffeine, every other aid station. The gels always weigh down my shorts in the early parts of the race, but naturally get lighter as I progress. I had a few salt stick tabs too that I took around the halfway point. About mile 18 I was feeling quite full from my nutrition, starting to feel the fatigue, and fell the bright sun as it was warming up a good bit. My training prepared me well though because I had felt quite similarly quite often during my Q sessions during my training, minus the warmth since I trained through the winter. There were several final miles that returned back to crushed gravel. I was worried that now with more tired legs that this could cause me issues. I had my left calf flare up with the warning signs of a cramp. When this would happen I'd ease up for about 10 strides and let my right leg take the lead. Fortunately it never seized up, which had happened twice during my training cycle. The final 2 miles or so of the race returned to pavement thankfully and I focused on holding my pace as best I could and closing out. The last half mile merged with the half marathoners which were running a bit slower so there was some maneuvering required. At that point I was emptying the tank with everything I had just wanting to finish and save every second that I could. I crossed the finish line relieved to be finished! Post-race I was handed a hat, water bottle, and given my finisher medal. I was quite happy with my time In all of my marathons now I usually finish about minutes slower that how I set my splits. my first marathon I was surprised, but there is always some sort of slow down either with aid stations, fatigue, or general race confusion. Hopefully I have enough cushion to get into Boston, but you really never know especially since there have been so many fast times at big races this qualifying period.
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2024.04.15 14:40 ZCaesar5639 Inconsistent access to older campaigns
I thought I might go back in time and try to get a few author medals since in the free version, you only have access to the first 10 tracks. Side Note: I once paid for the starter access (old payment of 10€) and had my fun with it. I DID NOT renew the subscription. As I said I only have access to the 10 newest tracks BUT I seemingly have inconsistens access to older campaigns aswell. Spring 2024: first 10 tracks Winter 2024 - Winter 2023: full access to campaigns Fall 2023 - Fall 2021: no access at all Summer 2021 - summer 2020: full access Is this intentional?
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