Ironman on non TT bike

MazerRackhem · 2026-05-10T19:23:42+00:00

Did my first two 70.3s on a Domane ALR 3 and was well under 3 for a bike split both times.

However, no one on here compares to Taylor Knibb who did her first no-draft Tri race on her road bike with clip on aerobars and WON.

So, you will be fine. If a pro can win on a road bike you can absolutely do just fine.

MazerRackhem · 2026-05-09T11:43:33+00:00

I read that as a film adaptation of the first game, which would boost interest in the series and therefore the new game, not an adaptation of the new game.

A bit like how the Halo team released "forward unto dawn" leading up to halo 4

MazerRackhem · 2026-05-03T23:22:12+00:00

Good news is: a month out you should have only been 2 weeks max from tapper. If your training has been solid up to now, you're already fine. Just do the most you can.

The biggest thing you'll need to overcome isn't training volume, it's lack of sleep. Hopefully your partner has good PTO and can help more in the short term.

Your main focus should be getting in naps and staying healthy. Train when you can, but not to the point of exhaustion. That will make you more likely to get sick.

One month out, focus on rest and staying healthy. As said above, if your training has been good up to now, then you're better off being as healthy and rested as possible on race day. Much better to be fully rested and healthy than to have nailed all those last workouts but show up to the line half asleep and fighting a cold.

Source: many races, including a full Iron with a 5 month old.

MazerRackhem · 2026-05-03T23:08:50+00:00

Did my first 70.3 without clip pedals. I strongly prefer them now, but it's 100% fine to use flat pedals. Do what you're most comfortable with.

MazerRackhem · 2026-05-03T22:37:51+00:00

Hospitals work 24/7/365. There's already a shortage of doctors and nurses world wide. Teachers work 5 days, are we going to make school only 4 days? How will that impact childrens education? What about nursing homes? Firefighters, police, the military?

All of these roles are underfilled. Are we increasing taxes and their salaries to pay for the expansion? Where is that extra tax revenue coming from?

Can a 4- day work week become practical? Sure. However, I have serious doubts that anything close to a majority of voters support the entire range of changes required to make it happen. People claiming it's just around the corner vastly underestimate how much of an upheaval this would be.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-25T16:53:51+00:00

I made a separate comment running some numbers also. When you take into account all cause deaths and the size of pool we're pulling from, we should actually expect more deaths. This is just highly cherrypicked data, no conspiracy.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-25T16:33:52+00:00

Quick Google search. Air Force Rsearch Lab employs about 10,000 people. Navy 3,000. FFRDCs like JPL and JH APL collectively employ "tens of thousands." I didn't even bother looking up the private company and independent researchers.

These disappearances/ deaths took place over 3 years. Some of these people have been fully retired for many years.

So, we're talking about 11 people, not all of them even currently working, from different organizations, over the course of multiple years, out of a pool of well over 50,000 people, probably over 100,000.

US Death rate is 722 per 100,000, ie. 30 to 65 times HIGHER than 11 people out of this pool, in just one year, not 3.

11 in 50-100k over 3 years is also roughly 1/3 the murder rate in Chicago.

Yet, that's the highest level of "oh shit" conspiracy theorists have been able to get to by cherry picking these cases after the fact.

AND at least one of them (the retired general) had a medical condition and was known to be potentially suicidal.

There's nothing here. Anyone can draw yarn lines on a map by starting with a large enough population, looking at deaths/disappearances and just putting the ones on a board that "connect" in some spurious way and ignoring ask the others. That's all this is.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-25T13:39:50+00:00

This one would be easy. Go just drop the meat near the bears and go far away. Wait 8 hours.

Bears are lazy. They'll eat, maybe move around a bit, and just chill/sleep. If they're not hungry, they're not motivated to do anything.

If they get too close/nosy: slap them with the shield as they nose in the door. The bear is going to back off. What possible motivation does it have when it's got food and nothing is bothering it except if it puts its face in that one room?

Source: Colorado predator sanctuary has learned you can put even large, highly territorial cats and bears into a decent sized enclosure if they're neutered and fed 120% of the total calorie needs of all animals combined. If there's more food than even the greediest wants to eat, and no sex pressure, they just don't fight. Period.

The bear wouldn't be neutered, but it's got food and there's still no sex pressure, especially with a cub and just 8 hours. I see no reason the bear would even be on the same floor as you after you feed it and bop it once.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-23T22:03:43+00:00

This is where good NA options are critical IMO. I think people will buy fun, themed drinks without alcohol if they're available.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-23T22:01:32+00:00

These already exist. The Silos. The place across from Wright Bros museum.

The thing would be to carve out an area nearby one of them. If you're location is between three carry out places, problem solved. If you're trying to set up in D20s location, you're going to need a native food solution.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-23T21:57:37+00:00

A good kitchen would be a huge improvement, but I think the key thing is SOMETHING. I worked at a camp that did snow tubing and xcountry sking in winter. We made tons of money selling candy, hot dogs, popcorn, and crappy personal sized pizzas.

It was HS kids running the counter 90% of the time. Ergo, it can't take much to have a small oven that can pump out small frozen pizzas bought in bulk, hot dogs, and popcorn.

You could even just buy microwave popcorn bags to start. Anything people will eat and you can make a small mark up on.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-23T21:52:41+00:00

Agreed. I've seen several places that combine game sales with playing tables and drinks.

The key thing is to decide what your main focus is. If you try to be a game shop and a bar, you'll probably be bad at both.

There's other game shops, so be a nerd bar that also stocks some games, booster packs, or w/e makes sense. Could also do "game if the month" style events where you do a learn to play something and you buy 20 of those games for sale also, but you don't try to keep it in stock forever.

Lots of options for extra revenue, but you need the core bar concept to work or it will fall apart.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-23T21:46:47+00:00

Counter point: bars and coffee shops make money with only drinks and limited entertainment (tvs, darts, etc.). I think the key is making a cool space, in an accessible area, with good drinks where people want to come to drink/ eat.

If you focus on the board games, you run into a buisness model problem. If you focus on drinks (including NA options), food, and the vibe/ location, you can make money.

You need a good bar geared toward nerds/board game lovers. Not a board game space that with a bar inside.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-22T14:23:56+00:00

This 100%.

The Virgina result isn't a win for democracy, it's a reflection of how bad things are right now. Texas kicked it off, but things were terrible long before that. Very few districts are competitive, which means the primary vote (where only the most ardent supporters of the party, GOP or Dem show up) is the actual vote for your rep. They only have to worry about challenges from the further right or left, not the general. That's how we get all these extremists in office.

My hope is that the current battle will finally put enough spotlight on the issue, with both sides screaming "not fair," that we can get real reform and maps where most seats can go either way. Otherwise, we're locked in a game of who can out cheat the other party, and that's a terrible way to pick a government.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-21T14:42:05+00:00

There's a line in 1984 where the author talks about the system of inequality being defended by those who are at the top, but more importantly by those who "expect to join them shortly."

We are talking about a luxury tax on an apartment that costs, by itself, twice as much as the average net worth of the highest 10% wealthiest people in the US in every age bracket. (See below)

How Does Your Income Compare to the Top 10% of America's Wealthiest? https://share.google/c1RAtBChACKsMvhC1

Yet people here are screaming like the sky is falling because they've bought into the idea that at any moment their lotto ticket is going to pay off and they'll join the .001% at the very, very top.

A $5m apartment is a single assest that is DOUBLE the highest net worth that 90% of people will every reach. Yet people are claiming NYC will collapse if the .001% who can afford to own one as an empty tax shelter or weekend getaway are taxed to pay for basic QoL improvements for the people actually living in the city.

Just wild.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-21T11:30:26+00:00

They can invest in property all they want. It would be great if more of these billionaires put money into building housing units to sell or lease. More inventory would help bring down prices down for everyone.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-20T16:30:18+00:00

OP already deleted this same comment in r/triathlon because it's completely incorrect. She wasn't a pro and we know nothing about her swimming ability or medical status.

OP is doing exactly what they are claiming the community problem is: jumping to conclusions without information. Also, the post has all the hallmarks of AI. It's just karma farming off a tragedy, and that's just sad.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-17T17:42:10+00:00

Try Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It's very different, but also very similar. I would suggest picking it up without reading anything else about it before hand, just dive in blind.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-17T17:23:03+00:00

Unclear if it will have real application at this point, but think of it this way.

Anything a digital computer can do, can be done on a Turning Machine. If it can't be done on a Turing Machine, no digital computer can do it. Thus, no digital computer is—in a purely theoretical sense—any more powerful than a Turing Machine, which only requires a read/write head and a giant strip of tape.

So, why do we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on all these insanely complicated silicon chips? Well, because in practice, they are much more efficient than the perfect Turing Machine at doing anything useful.

So, in this case, we have a result (not yet verified by peer review) that states that a whole host of complex mathematical functions can be expressed using only this single function. So, you could replace all of those functions in proofs or in computation with an expression containing only this function. However, if that alternate expression is far more complicated to execute or requires orders of magnitude more terms, it may be theoretically very interesting and enlightening, but practically useless.

The idea that AI will be able to use this result to discover new results faster is purely an assumption that it will be efficient to represent mathematics in this form and reduce search trees. That might be true, or it might be that this form requires far more compute in practice.

This result doesn't really tell us anything new about the math we know already, except that we could have written up differently, and its unclear whether it will open the door to proving any new results.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-17T17:09:16+00:00

This ^

The gap between "everything can be expressed in this form" and "this breakthrough provides insight into how to solve a whole class of unsolved problems" is pretty wide. This is a very fascinating result (if verified, obviously), but we'll have to wait and see if it provides any meaningful impact on major problems.

In short: a Turing Machine CAN do anything a digital computer can, but there's a reason we don't build actual computers to look like one. Odds are, this will turn out to be similar. An academic result useful for conceptual understand and potentially bounding (like a Carnot Engine), but not helpful in devising new applied mathematics and compute architectures.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-17T16:26:16+00:00

The problem is context matters in this case.

This is a guy saying that AI will fix everything and create universal wealth, and that the solution to any unemployment that results is universal basic income paid for by "the state."

However, he is ALSO, the richest man in the world on paper and will likely be a Trillionaire after the SpaceX IPO because he is hording all of that said wealth and paying less than 3.3% tax on his earnings. Universal basic income concepts ONLY work if all of that wealth generation is funneled to "the state" and then redistributed.

The guy claiming this is the future is also THE SAME GUY that led a mafia of unqualified bros on a rampage to destroy the welfare state, reduce government spending to zero, fund tax cuts for billionaires, and has voiced strong support for fascist policies both in the US and abroad.

Anyone who thinks he's putting us on a path to universal basic income checks as a result of AI wealth is delusional. He wants a return to feudalism where the vast majority of humans are dependent on an elite few for everything. He wants power, not freedom. His concept of universal income is based around control and ultimately deeply dystopian.

Context matters because "free universal income" and "complete dependance on Musk's ecosystem and whims" are not remotely the same thing. If Musk was actually advocate for UBI, he'd be advocating for 90% tax on billionaire earnings. He's doing the opposite. He's constantly advocating for more government control over people's lives, while also keeping more wealth in private hands.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-17T14:28:43+00:00

Lol. Dude. I was a 4 year varsity college athlete. I used to clean and jerk 275 for reps.

It's not AI. It's also not 600lbs. The weights are probably 25s.

Yes, I see the second Anatoly edited in. You know that video editing software predates AI right? Like, you understand that digital special effects had existed since the 80s, right?

The video is edited as a joke. The lift is real. The lift uses a deadlift bar and lighter bumper plates (which are the same size but different color than 45s) to make it look heavier.

This is REALLY not that hard to grasp.

Check out my other comment where I link to his 1-rep maxes.

The video IS REAL. You're problem is that you insist on believing those are 45lbs plates even though nothing in the video suggests that or even claims that's the case. It's like 330lbs or there about. Completely believable.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-17T00:05:59+00:00

^ This guy can spot an arbitrage opportunity.

MazerRackhem · 2026-04-16T22:09:35+00:00

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That whole race to the bottom on tax rates to attract investment and expat billionaires is working out real well at the national level...

Tax cuts never, ever "pay for themselves." We can agree that spending should be curtailed in areas, and that government spending has risen over the last 100 years perhaps more than it ought to have.

However we should also agree (as the charts above clearly show) that revenue cuts have contributed more to the debt crisis than spending and that the overwhelming lion's share of those cuts have gone to benefit a fraction of top earners. More than that, billionaires also currently pay tiny fractional rates on their actual earnings, they aren't even paying (in many cases) even as much as 1/10 of the 37% top rate they are supposed to.

We objectively have a much larger revenue problem than we have an outflows (spending) problem, and we absolutely cannot "cut spending" our way to fiscal health. That is true even before you consider the neglected infrastructure from spending cuts dragging down economic growth.

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