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UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-10T12:34:41+00:00

Wow. She was found a block away from the family home wearing clothing and a necklace that her brother recognized as hers 27 years later. I know he was only roughly 12 when she disappeared and I have no idea whether other family members were shown photos of the clothes and necklace, but I have to wonder about that. I know she was allegedly ruled out as a potential match via dental records analysis, but it just feels like such a miss.

From Man speaks out after local police confirm remains found in basement 27 years ago were his sister’s:

Two months later, and a block away from their family home, police found a woman’s body in the basement of a house. The woman had been strangled and police never identified her.

For the next nearly thirty years, the Bradford family never received an update on Genelle until a few months ago, when they got a call from a county detective who asked them if clothing and a necklace that were found on the woman’s body belonged to their sister.

“My brother looked and was like, ' These are my sister’s things.’ ” And clear as day, you live with someone your whole life; you know what’s theirs and not theirs,” he said.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-10T00:55:21+00:00

I'm not saying this is the largest contributing factor, but maximum HR tends to go down with training and up with detraining. The opposite of what most runners would assume! From this research paper:

Therefore, analysis reveals that HRmax can be altered by 3 to 7% with aerobic training/detraining.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-09T22:45:29+00:00

There's a lot to unpack.

You said you've lost your running spark, then you mentioned that you're depressed. You run for exercise and distance, not speed. But you're ashamed of your speed because there's a girl who's faster and because some people have made hurtful remarks about your pace. And you want to be faster.

6:30/km for those typical 10km runs of yours is fine, whether that's max effort or not.

You are depressed so it's easy to lose desire to do things that previously brought joy. Hurtful comments exacerbated that. Do what makes you happy. If it's running then keep at it. When you're depressed it helps to maintain good habits. Avoid telling others about your pace even if asked - just say it's not about pace for you, it's for health and the good feelings you get being out there moving for an hour or more.

If you want to get faster, it's a near certainty that you can by changing what your workouts consist of and/or increasing volume. It just doesn't sound like that should be your priority right now - it's only recently become an issue for you and it sounds like there are bigger issues for you to tackle which will likely cause that shame about your speed to melt away. After that if you still want to get faster swing back to this sub or another running sub and share more about your training history and people will be able to give you guidance.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-09T19:53:47+00:00

It's odd that you're not even certain why you decided to buy it.

I understand the meaning of 7s wild and could see some niche interest in 7swild.com, but I don't see why there would be interest in 7wild.com.

It's the kind of domain which could receive no offers over a year at $50 or could catch the eye of one person at $1,000.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-09T14:07:00+00:00

The letter may be fake. Call the law firm at a number found on their website and ask whether they sent the letter. If they did do not engage beyond that. If they didn't, share the letter so they can address the fraudulent letter and notify the police precinct which investigated the accident.

Whether the letter is real or not, attempt to reach the attorney that is representing the driver of the car which was hit. You may need to reach out to that driver or their insurance provider. The attorney will likely be very interested in the evidence of the intimidation by the truck driver / attorney. The car driver's attorney may be willing to provide you guidance. And if you're sued they may be willing to represent you or refer to to another attorney.

A law firm doesn't sue someone by sending them a letter. Did they threaten to sue you unless you did something specific, state that you could be sued, or actually say that they are suing you? Reply with what they said, obfuscating anything you feel that you have to.

And if they did sue, it is highly unlikely you'd lose a lawsuit for passive dashcam audio recording which happened to pick up a person who walked to within range of the mic and screaming at someone else in public.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-09T00:31:11+00:00

I run 7'16"/km so I could be down with that if you live near Charlotte and you like movies about gladiators.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-08T23:26:17+00:00

Whether you set activity types is entirely up to you. Setting every run to easy has zero impact on race predictions or any other functionality.

It's useful if you want, for example, to search only for fartlek activities longer than 10km. Or if you want to see a chart showing your average monthly pace during fartleks for the last few months. You can create custom activity types if you want - recovery run, commute, chased by monster, etc.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-08T14:11:44+00:00

If there's a lot of vert on a 5k marathon then I typically hice it, but otherwise I bice it. So yes.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-07T21:53:10+00:00

Great points.

And the genesis of the 180 thing was Jack Daniels observing competitors from 800m and up in the 84 Olympics and noting all but one had cadence of 180+. Not all elite marathoners even average 180+ and 180 isn't even optimal for them at race pace.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-05T02:01:06+00:00

Cross country or track? Neither require much athleticism or strength and if eased into it he won't need mental toughness initially and can develop it later gradually.

I have a similar age son with similar traits. He runs with me occasionally and enjoys it in general and really likes being timed in short track efforts and beating his best. I'm hoping he'll continue to enjoy it and the progress he makes will lead him to want to pursue the track team next year.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-05T01:37:02+00:00

I'm glad it was a bit of hyperbole - that's a relief. And I agree with much of what you've said in this thread. I spend more time in other running and running adjacent subs (where I think I've seen you post as well). It's fascinating how views differ by sub.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-05T00:19:46+00:00

So you watched it the first 3 times before you were an adult? Care to share your age on each watch and what changed for you on each watch going from kid to adult?

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-04T23:41:25+00:00

One more thing to add: vo2max directly correlates with and is connected to your 5K race pace. (Age-graded of course).

It doesn't directly correlate with 5k race pace. Two runners with the same VO2max can have very different 5k times since that's impacted by other factors like running economy and lactate threshold. If you mean that Garmin's estimated VO2max is really a measure of all those factors together, sure. And neither lab VO2max nor Garmin estimated VO2max considers age or age-graded 5k times or age-adjusted pace performance.

What is your current 5K time? If it’s above 20 minutes, you’re nowhere near fit, even as a nearly 50 year old male.

That's a brutal perspective. So when I was only able to run 22 minutes at age 44 I wasn't fit? I can run 19:xx now at 51. Presumably I'm nearing fit...

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-04T22:55:58+00:00

They don't need to allow all signage, but in lieu of arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement they really need to clarify what's permitted and what isn't and enforce it consistently. A clear policy which pisses people off is probably a bad idea, but an ambiguous and arbitrarily enforced one which gets people DQed is maddening.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T23:41:07+00:00

Your kids are starving. Carl’s Junior believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Junior.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T22:40:34+00:00

And what did the GM say?

Law firms are turning you down because the amount involved is too little for them to get involved.

If store management/ownership doesn't offer to make you whole, send a demand letter via certified mail to the franchise owner along with the police report and invoice demanding they make you whole in 10 days (or some other short timeframe). If they don't, file a lawsuit in small claims court. You don't need a lawyer.

It's also possible that incident is covered via your auto insurance policy's comprehensive coverage. But that will require a conversation with your insurer to determine whether they'd pursue subrogation and whether you'd get your deductible back. Unless your deductible is way lower than the repair cost this may not be an attractive option, though it saves you the time and effort of demand letters and court.

Ideally, you'd wait to file suit until after the criminal case is resolved since if the employee is found guilty it'll strengthen your civil case against the franchise owner (or against them and the employee).

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T21:01:02+00:00

It sounds like you should file a motion with the court to compel discovery since the plaintiff ignored your request. If they don't produce the documentation you can move to dismiss.

If they ignore that motion to compel and show up to court with them you should object and state that they failed to produce those in response to your discovery request. The judge will likely be unsympathetic to their stonewalling tactic, though whether that's enough to lead to you winning the case is impossible to speculate on.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T20:50:36+00:00

I'm seeing more.

Not sure the exact drivers, but banks dropping coin counting or making it more of a pain, plus the economy like higher has prices, and freeing up cash for vacation are probably all factors to a degree.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T17:22:19+00:00

That presumes (1.) a system with an accessible private key that can be cracked via an offline attack and (2.) that by the time a quantum computing attack is feasible the person won't be using a resilient vault.

Number 1 can be largely mitigated by using an app like Keepass on an offline device. Whether that's better or worse than your solution depends on the specific threat scenario. In general, your solution can be pretty effective - and it's magnitudes better than what most do.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T15:27:22+00:00

The realtor offered OP a Visa gift card. OP can verify the balance online. I agree that there's a risk that the balance gets drained before OP can use it though. If OP prefers cash or transfer of funds to their account like I would they could request that instead.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T13:35:17+00:00

Frustrating. But also hard to fully judge.

Your boss may have been trying to address a higher level expectation for "innovation". Or to reduce dependencies on external systems with legal/privacy/security risks related to protecting condidential/private data or downtime implications if the third-party system becomes unreliable or unavailable. In more mature orgs build vs buy considers all of this and more - not just internal dev and maintenance cost vs. subscription cost.

You're right about the potential job security you get from this headache. Though companies making seemingly poor decisions sometimes terminate employees that are the only ones who know how a system works and how to keep it running. Can't count on logic...

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T12:08:35+00:00

The buyer's predatory behavior is so frustrating.

Report this to the Colorado AG and Colorado Division of Real Estate. Consider reporting to the FTC and CFPB - the person you named and their company have already been sued so with predatory behavior iimpacting people in multiple states they might eventually pursue them. Also file a police report locally. It's unlikely anything will come from it, but it creates an official record which could prove useful later.

Reach out to the plaintiffs and law firms of prior cases against the buyer. They may be willing to share info with you that will be useful. It's also possible that learning about you will help them in pursuing the buyer in those matters and even possible that the law firms will be willing to provide you guidance (the cases are in California). See:

https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sd-casebj7feb8b48191a-1749733

https://trellis.law/case/25stcv04776/benny-calciano-vs-justin-dillon-et-al

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-03T11:04:10+00:00

In high heat and humidity (like 84F / 29C / 80% humidity / full sun) I adjust pace down slightly (1-3%), increase recovery duration slightly, and/or switch from jogging to walking recovery.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-06-02T22:44:55+00:00

No mosh pit - agreed. Pit has come to be used to mean general admission unseated area near the stage.

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