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Basketball / Re: NBA 2019 - 2020 Season
« on: September 26, 2020, 10:16:32 pm »
TNT coverage >>>>> ESPN. Too bad they don’t get the finals.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 26, 2020, 06:12:56 pm »
- yard work x ? (a lot)
cutting down a dead apple tree, chopping wood, pulling ivy, hauling stuff around. hands and forearms are gonna be wrecked tomorrow. very gratifying, i <3 chainsaw and axe. no run today.
cutting down a dead apple tree, chopping wood, pulling ivy, hauling stuff around. hands and forearms are gonna be wrecked tomorrow. very gratifying, i <3 chainsaw and axe. no run today.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 25, 2020, 08:13:20 am »
what got in the way of working out?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 24, 2020, 10:45:35 pm »
yeah the original is great, too. i'm an absolute sucker for sappy love songs. give me some whitney houston "how will i know," talking heads "naive melody," mariah carey "always be my baby," jackie wilson "higher and higher," bill withers "lovely day," etc. etc. etc. etc.
- run 10.5 km in ?
watch was out of batteries so i ran free. headache gone. it was a bit warm and humid today but nothing too bad.
- run 10.5 km in ?
watch was out of batteries so i ran free. headache gone. it was a bit warm and humid today but nothing too bad.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 24, 2020, 04:14:33 pm »
i just transcribed my first song. this version of "everywhere" by fleetwood mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbeGd-GszA.
a super easy song (almost 100% power chords and you can see her hands basically the whole time), but still, that's not something i could do at the beginning of the year.
now to go learn it...
a super easy song (almost 100% power chords and you can see her hands basically the whole time), but still, that's not something i could do at the beginning of the year.
now to go learn it...
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 23, 2020, 07:46:05 pm »
day 2 of headache. not as bad today. i think it's like the ones i was getting a year ago, related to something in my traps, so i've been massaging and doing mobility stuff (my self-massager is packed in a box somewhere in the basement).
also i tweaked my back picking something up. no run.
also i tweaked my back picking something up. no run.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Triathlon sprint prep
« on: September 23, 2020, 09:13:43 am »
fwiw these are by far the best masks i've used: https://www.all-ett.com/collections/masks-for-covid19
the ones with ties are great for running because they're easy to pull up and pull down. and they all stay away from my mouth and nose even when they get sweaty. a lot of other masks get clingy.
the ones with ties are great for running because they're easy to pull up and pull down. and they all stay away from my mouth and nose even when they get sweaty. a lot of other masks get clingy.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 22, 2020, 06:49:44 pm »
splitting headache all day. no run.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: New year new me
« on: September 21, 2020, 10:25:21 am »
frank yang is a legend. he must have one of the longest youtube careers out there. like almost fifteen years at this point. just unbelievably prolific.
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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: September 21, 2020, 09:42:58 am »
i've been watching a lot of guitar-centered music and this dude keeps showing up in my feed. i'm mostly not that into him: he's a technical wizard but i find him kind of antiseptic and boring. but this video is bananas because of the arrangement and his ability to play it so perfectly. the original song has three guitar parts (acoustic, electric, and pedal steel) plus a bass and he somehow manages to convey all of them with just a single telecaster. [quake 3 announcer voice]: impressive.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtYKjQLgnOs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtYKjQLgnOs</a>
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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: penn and teller: fool us
« on: September 21, 2020, 09:36:19 am »this is an incredible act, but also i've watched his reaction at the end more than i've watched the routine. i just teared up watching it for the third time this morning.
the world sucks so much right now and watching someone be so overcome with happiness and pride that they weep openly in front of millions of people...it feeds my soul. penn and teller fool us is undefeated, even when penn makes awkward jokes about his own cultural insensitivity. so much joy, so much kindness and generosity.
the recent one by lea kyle is similarly amazing.
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Basketball / Re: NBA 2019 - 2020 Season
« on: September 21, 2020, 09:09:14 am »
yeah i was disappointed, too. but like AD said afterward, as a star, you want to be given the chance to take shots like that, they're what define your legacy as a player. respect to him for draining it and making it look easy.
watching him and jokic go back and forth for the last couple minutes of the game was so fun. i hope denver gets a couple of wins just to prolong the series.
watching him and jokic go back and forth for the last couple minutes of the game was so fun. i hope denver gets a couple of wins just to prolong the series.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 20, 2020, 06:45:24 pm »
- run 15.02 km in 1:16:37
nice and easy, strong negative split for a 5:06 average pace. didn't note T+DI but it was similar to yesterday, maybe a few degrees warmer.
also walked about 7 km with my parents this morning, through a park by the capitol, by the supreme court to see the impromptu memorial to ruth bader ginsburg (many people down there), and then to see the new eisenhower memorial.
nice and easy, strong negative split for a 5:06 average pace. didn't note T+DI but it was similar to yesterday, maybe a few degrees warmer.
also walked about 7 km with my parents this morning, through a park by the capitol, by the supreme court to see the impromptu memorial to ruth bader ginsburg (many people down there), and then to see the new eisenhower memorial.
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Track & Field / Re: Track & Field News
« on: September 20, 2020, 03:25:35 pm »
mondo duplantis breaks 26-year-old outdoor pole vault world record. he'd already set the indoor world record (twice) earlier this year.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7R6Kqn5gw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7R6Kqn5gw</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 19, 2020, 01:15:11 pm »
rained hard on thursday and decided not to make it up yesterday.
today
- tennis with dad x ~45 mins
started out loose and good and then he tightened up a bit as we went along.
- warm up x 1 km; 500m intervals in [1:59, 1:57, 1:55, 1:55, 1:53, 1:53] w/300m running rest; cool down x 1 km
too easy, which is a good sign i think. had to pee super bad the whole time.
T+DI 100 (!!!!!!!!!). perfect fall day.
today
- tennis with dad x ~45 mins
started out loose and good and then he tightened up a bit as we went along.
- warm up x 1 km; 500m intervals in [1:59, 1:57, 1:55, 1:55, 1:53, 1:53] w/300m running rest; cool down x 1 km
too easy, which is a good sign i think. had to pee super bad the whole time.
T+DI 100 (!!!!!!!!!). perfect fall day.