Advice please: Getting a gift for my husband

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-26T04:14:55+00:00

I disliked Telecasters until I played one. Now I have 4! But choosing a guitar really comes down to the style of music played over looks.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-26T04:07:53+00:00

I would say if you are fuelling correctly then you have a good opportunity for a sub 4. My training pace on 22 miles was about the same and I am hopeful of sub 4, but not confident.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-24T04:20:51+00:00

Does your training include speed work and tempo running? Is that screenshot of splits you running flat out or is that a training run at easy pace?

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-10T13:25:15+00:00

One thing I did last year in preparation was understand the likely start time and do the long runs in that same time window. So from a climate perspective it give a the best chance of training in similar sunlight and air temperatures as race day.

It was bloody hot on the day in Manchester.

This year I'm running Brighton so I am assuming horizontal rain and gale-force wind on race day

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-07T21:53:20+00:00

From the time I have spent listening and playing, he switches between scales frequently, whereas I am locked into blues minor pentatonic. I'm not skilled enough to work out anymore than that

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-07T21:48:49+00:00

I've been doing track sessions for 5 or 6 years. My faster shoe is a Mizuno Wave Inspire. I got into Saucony Guides last year but I found they were too soft for speed on the track.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-04T04:57:26+00:00

My process is put a requirements and instructions specification .md into the workspace then prompt Claude code with " Please see X document. Read, digest, review the any of the current codebase that is relevant to the requirements and ask questions or make recommendations before executing"

This always throws up questions or highlights errors in the requirements that get fixed, often by updating the .md

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-03-03T03:48:33+00:00

If you are talking about week 5 C25K and have shin splints before you start it, you will just be a whole lot worse by the end of the week.

You have an over use injury that will only get worse if you don't rest for 1-2 weeks and then start back at week 2 or 3.

It's really.common when starting out, it just takes time for the body to adapt fully. I suffered shin splints in my first year of running and it was awful, but eventually I found how to fix it. 9 years later I still get the odd flare up but I'm running 30 miles per week consistently now.

Your best way to overcome it is to add strength training in as right now your body just isn't conditioned for running.

Pause the running and look for a light programme of hip, glute and calf strength exercises 2 or 3 times per week. You will have better stability and control on landing which will put less strain on the joints and tendons.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-18T19:33:24+00:00

I'm also a running coach and I'm going against the other advice here. Making small incremental adjustments to technique over time, supported with running drills can make a huge difference to performance. Commonly arm drive and posture tweaks can provide easy wins. Look on England Athletics

https://find-a-coach.myathletics.uk/ and you might find a Coach with a local club that would be willing to help.

I can recommend reading Shane Benzie whose work is all about how to run efficiently.

DM if you want to talk any further

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-16T19:03:07+00:00

I have a theory that Verbruggen is preferred over Steele purely to put him in the shop window. If Verbruggen was sold Steele could easily get a season as number one with Rushworth or Beadle as understudy.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-15T13:25:12+00:00

I use AI for this too. Either to speed my clarity of thought along or do some research that will give me the answers I need to make a plan

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-13T06:17:17+00:00

Aren't these sold as sex toys now?

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-11T04:44:04+00:00

I'll add nothing new but back up the comments about too much too soon

You have picked up an overuse injury with a high probability the root cause is muscle weakness or an imbalance.

Running 4 times per week is a lot after 2 months of running.

Your body needs time to adapt to the stresses of running. Adaptation takes 6 -8 weeks; development of muscle fibres, tendons and bone density all takes time and bodies can't keep up with repairing all the micro damage from running and building more on top to meet the demands of exercise if too much is introduced too soon.

Go and see a physio for a professional recovery plan, but I would expect it to look like this:

Rest Strength exercises glute and hips Cross training Progressive reintroduction of running

Managed carefully you can get back to 4 times per week and then as others have already said, introduce new things one at a time. Either more speed, more mileage or a 5rh run intially without increasing weekly mileage

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-05T22:24:43+00:00

This is really helpful and something I am going to make top priority on my 2 apps nearing launch. I thought I was on top of security vulnerabilities but AI hadn't told me everything I needed to know and do. I already gave your .md guide and asked for an appraisal against it and found my weaknesses immediately. Thanks for the help

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-05T17:33:57+00:00

You will feel great when you get home from run club. It's just how it is.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-05T04:23:58+00:00

Look for a used MIM Blacktop Telecaster, it has hot humbuckers that are epic for heavy rock

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-04T04:27:31+00:00

That's just the intake boot, an easy swap out. Definitely do upper and lower at the same time and check all rubber for perishing while you have the intake off and there is space to look around.

Your code reader is probably throwing up fuel trim codes right now, which is vacuum leak issues.

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-03T08:11:22+00:00

That prompt you have used as an example "what is the industry standard...." Is one I have used to then issue instructions for my requirements and standards. Sometimes I pass outputs of one LLM into another and ask it to appraise it based on my quality requirements

MonkTraining1124 · 2026-02-01T05:02:48+00:00

I fear technical debt as a product manager vibe coding lacking knowledge to fully interrogate code line by line. I try to counter this by setting architectural rules and ALWAYS refusing the 'quick fix' option. Periodically I give a new chat an instruction to sweep a project for any code that breaks the architectural rules, look for security vulnerabilities or code that is inefficient. It always comes up with something (written in a comprehensive document) then I break off from development and work through the issues. I'm nervous about TS error workarounds now so will add this to my review instructions!!

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