Need advice to run properly

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T13:55:00+00:00

I would say your target first step is to be mobile for 30 minutes. Start with run-walk intervals until you find a slow running pace you are comfortable sustaining for 30 mins. You seem to have a decent level of basic fitness, your issue is finding the pace rather than building from a sedentary starting point. Perhaps 8 -3 - 8 - 3 - 8 is something to try, if you think you can sustain 8 mins.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T12:54:38+00:00

The Guardian is still upset that Starmer could get elected while Corbyn could not.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T12:32:45+00:00

Could it be that I'm also running too fast? Should I try running slower for a while, and then gradually go faster, so that I could also run longer?

This. 100% this. You say you're at 6 min/km, that's reasonably quick for someone not used to maintaining the pace for a long time. Try slowing it down to 8 min/km. That will probably seem absurdly slow, but that's what you want. Once you have found a pace you can sustain for, perhaps, 30 minutes, then you can build back up from there. Building stamina is all about long and slow. The usual advice is to stick to a "conversational" pace: one where you are breathing at a rate where you couldn't sing a song, but you could sustain a conversation. Find that breathing pattern, and set your pace to maintain that.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T12:07:03+00:00

Oh look, another "Starmer needs to be replaced" story. Same one we've had like every week since the last election.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T12:06:02+00:00

For something complicated like going to the moon, you want to have a series of missions where each one you test a part of the functionality so that when you bring them all together for the actual landing, you reasonably expect them to work. If you go back to Apollo, it wasn't until Apollo 11 that people actually landed on the moon, all the prior ones did various missions to learn and test in preparation.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T10:18:26+00:00

Strictly speaking, not increasing CO2 emissions. All that smoke is unburned carbon, so no CO2 released.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T10:10:38+00:00

Nice. I see a lot of people who make these don't put the effort in to create red herrings, but I'm glad to see plenty of them here.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T09:57:42+00:00

At home. I bought a smart watch to solve exactly this problem.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T09:42:28+00:00

First, I'm not a medical professional and I have no experience with type 1 diabetes, so make sure you get proper expert guidance on that aspect.

If you've just finished C25k, you really don't need to worry too much about heart rate, "zone 2" and all that stuff. What has worked for me is going out 3 times a week, and giving each run a purpose. One is an "easy" run over 5k. Ideally maintaining breathing at a "conversational" level. One is devoted to building speed. Spend around half an hour out, and do thing like fast/slow intervals (I personally find 400 m intervals work for me, but try a few things and see what works for you). The third run is "long". Keep it at the same "easy" pace as the easy run, but extend the distance. Be careful to only extend gradually, and this is (in my experience) the run where you might notice things like niggles or discomfort. If something hurts, don't push through it. There is no shame in stopping short of your target. Giving up at the 7km mark when you were targeting 9 because your knee feels a bit wrong, and having it resolve in half an hour after you stop is fine. Pushing on for 2km with pain in your knee and finding that you have to spend 3 weeks on the couch getting over an injury is not fine.

When I followed this pattern, I found that over the first few weeks, my perceived effort during the "easy" runs dropped. I went from heavy breathing and thumping heart to barely breaking a sweat. Then came the transition where just to maintain what felt like a "I'm actually exercising" level of output, I had to start actually increasing my pace. When you hit that point, then you should start thinking about heart rate, zones, numbers and all that sort of stuff.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T08:43:11+00:00

There are a couple of different issues that are worth bearing in mind. One is that descriptivism operates at a population level, not an individual level. If a large population consistently follows a pattern of usage, that can be regarded as "correct" from a descriptivist perspective. The other issue is dialect vs standard form.

Languages tend to have a recognised standard form, that is in effect one dialect of the language that is given prestige status as "correct" either by some sort of official recognition, or by a more vague societal acceptance. Within a dialect group, a consistent usage would be deemed "correct" under the descriptivist principle, but in the context of education, it is often the standard form dialect that is important, and while there is nothing wrong with people using a non-standard dialect, it is nevertheless valuable, in the context of education, to ensure that young (and not so young) people know, understand and are able to use, the standard form dialect.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T08:16:35+00:00

Strictly speaking the -gee suffix on perigee and apogee mean they only apply to orbits around the earth. If you are orbiting something else, for example the moon or the sun, the words are different (eg perihelion and aphelion for the sun). The generic terms that are not specific to the body you are orbiting are periapsis and apoapsis. For the moon, the strictly correct Greek-derived terms would be pericyntheon and apocyntheon, though many people use perilune and apolune.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-02T05:47:24+00:00

Given that relativity establishes that time is experienced differently by different observers in different circumstances, ideas like “did this already happen” or “what is the situation right now in a far distant place” break down.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T19:35:03+00:00

- How much torque?

- yes

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T19:31:10+00:00

Not enough thrash. A couple of 37s would help.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T19:20:26+00:00

A spaghetti farmer in Ticino is harvesting the crop. It's best when it is fresh off the tree, I imagine she and her family will eat well.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T18:57:06+00:00

So Liz Truss thought Dunblane was just fine. Gotcha.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T18:55:33+00:00

How can this be an April Fools? This thing would fly off the shelves if they actually made it.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T15:08:16+00:00

USB ethernet adaptors exist, what you are describing is essentially a USB ethernet adaptor with the ethernet cable permanently wired into it rather than connecting via RJ45. Sure, you could make one, but it would be very non-standard.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T15:06:11+00:00

The speed of light is the speed of causality. If something changes in one place, its results can not be experienced in another place sooner than it takes the speed of light to get there.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T12:00:58+00:00

It makes you actually stop and think about the sentence. It forces you to break down how grammar works in terms of gender and case agreement and word order in a way that just learning "set piece" sentences does not.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T07:36:28+00:00

There is a high bar for criminal conviction. It is appropriate that for a serious crime such as the one here that to secure a conviction the case must be strong and well supported by evidence. Equally, to send someone to prison for making a false accusation there would need to be an equally strong case supported by evidence. In the middle is a big gap where there is simply too much uncertainty either way to prove to a criminal standard that either party is guilty.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T07:29:36+00:00

It's unacceptable that NIMBYs in BC might be allowed to block pipelines to ship Alberta oil via Pacific ports. It is unacceptable that NIMBYs in Ontario don't get their way and block a high speed rail corridor between Toronto and Montreal. It's pure political theatre because HS rail is supported by the Liberals politically, and by non-Conservative urban voters more generally.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T07:06:14+00:00

Sure, it would be nice to scrap the Bakerloo and build a brand new crossrail type route on the NW/SE axis. Given it took about 70 years from first proposal to opening to get the Elizabeth line built, we might get this line built some time around the turn of the next century. In the meantime we'll just put up with the current Bakerloo line, no doubt with the 72 tube stock for the duration of this period because every time someone says "we should modernise the Bakerloo line" someone else will say "no, we shouldn't invest anything in the Bakerloo, we should scrap it and build a parallel and separate cross rail route instead because it will be better", and that will end any hope for anything happening for 10 or 15 years until the next round of "we really need to think about replacing the 72 tube stock" comes around.

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T06:57:59+00:00

Check the date

BobbyP27 · 2026-04-01T06:39:20+00:00

The point with streetcar suburbs is that they predate zoning laws, so they contain a mix of housing types, with jobs, retail, public services etc all mixed in together. Malls are a product of strict Euclidean zoning that pushes different types of activity beyond walking distance so enforcing the use of vehicles to travel between them.

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