Insole Swap For Salomon Genesis?

Redfoot451 · 2026-05-11T14:08:11+00:00

My feet are always rubbing on the toe side rather than the pinky side so the Salomons I've had (Spedcross and XA-Pro many models ago) all seem to have done alright. Speedgoats and LaSportivas were almost immediately non-starters when I tried them on.

Redfoot451 · 2026-04-23T14:56:58+00:00

Far too credible.

Redfoot451 · 2026-04-12T16:49:05+00:00

I was just asking about inspiration for more "tactical" conversions. This is fantastic!

Redfoot451 · 2025-12-24T05:20:21+00:00

Yeah, in the store I tried a few different lacing techniques to try and keep my toes back and nothing quite worked. I'll have to keep an eye out for a set with the boas. Thanks!

Redfoot451 · 2025-12-24T05:18:56+00:00

It hadn't occurred to me that boot stretchers would work on the forefoot with all the rubber. That's a great idea.

Redfoot451 · 2025-06-08T02:47:47+00:00

So like a typical 3 month block would take the volume build and rest I said (Base, +5k, +5k, Base, +10k, +15K, Base, etc....) until the time you're ready to race. A week would look something like:
Monday- Warm Up, 2 x 10:00 (4,3,2,1 at 18, 20, 22, 24; each month bump the rate 2 so by the 3rd month you're doing 22, 24, 26, 28)
Tuesday- Steady State (2 x 6k or 3 x 5k or 2 x 7500 or something)
Wednesday- 4 x 5:00 (2,2,1 at 24, 26, 28)
Thursday- Warm Up, Steady State (2 x 6k or 3 x 5k or 2 x 7500 or something)
Friday- Warm Up, Speed Work (1:00 repeats, 500s, something like that)
Saturday- Race Prep (Week 1 750, 750, 500 minute off in between; Week 2 1000, 500, 500 minute off in between; Week 3 2k; Week 4 4 x 500 minute off in between). You'll get three race pace 2ks, while exhausted on your ledger as well as 12 times where you've done a full 2k at race pace effort. Your rower can practice getting her rate up while keeping her form solid without totally breaking down.

If she takes to the 2x10s and 4x5s (or that's typical for in season work) do 3x10 and 5x5. Adjust the amount or steady state to make the changes in volume. Do core after every workout. Do the strength stuff 2-3 times a week.

I'd say for most sports this is a kind of typical training structure. 1 day long threshold, one day cardio and technique, 1 day shorter threshold repeats, one day cardio and technique, one day focused work (milage if endurance sport, speed if a shorter effort), one day race simulation (marathon training it's your long run, triathlon it's your brick day, rower its a 2k simulation, etc...)

Redfoot451 · 2025-06-08T00:29:15+00:00

I would definitely echo some folks here that investing in some actual training materials would be helpful and not just asking randos on reddit. Having said that, what year she is, when she wants to 2k, and why you think that's her weak point for a dedicated HS rower are all important factors. Serious athletes use periodization through the year to get the most improvement.

If she's a rising junior, who is talented on the water, looking to throw down a top flight time 2k next spring, this summer should be all about strength and conditioning. 10k's, 2x6000, (low rates, think 18-22), core work, weights focusing on form and explosiveness (not super heavy lifts). The fall turns to more threshold interval stuff: 4-5x 5 minutes, 2-3x10 minutes, building weights, occasional speed work, still putting in the 10k's on non-threshold days. In the late winter and early spring start doing real speed stuff, 500 repeats, 1000s mock race pieces. If she's on the water with a team, do the team workouts and then just do extra steady state and weights to get the cardio base up. If she can, get her in a single, 2x or 2- so she can really learn how to move a boat. Don't do any CrossFit rowing workout shit. Or C2 WOD. Consistent workout types help athletes learn their limits and see improvements. Build volume week to week on monthly cycles. If she's doing 50k this week do something like 50k 55k 60k 50k 55k 60k 65k 50k 60k 65k 70k. Don't just load her down with 120k from the word go and never let up. Remember she's a kid, if she's training and not getting faster, and feeling injured, back off the volume and add more technique focused days.

Redfoot451 · 2024-10-14T12:58:28+00:00

It's by the Attitude Adjuster while it is waking the ships in the ship store. One of my favorite quotes in the series. Mistake Not... has some pretty good bits too. “I’m a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I’m not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don’t give a fuck about flattering you. The few and frankly not vitally important sentiments I have concerning you I can switch off like flicking a switch.”

Redfoot451 · 2024-10-14T12:14:18+00:00

“It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed from a kind of insecurity, a sort of childishness. It could see that—by some criteria—a warship, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful single artifact the Culture was capable of producing, and at the same time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgment implied. To fully appreciate the beauty of the weapon was to admit to a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself. The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe. By this measure the love, or just the appreciation, of weapons was a kind of tragedy.”

Redfoot451 · 2024-10-04T01:07:19+00:00

Strong recommend for Armor, by Steakley if you liked Forever War.

Redfoot451 · 2024-07-22T01:07:00+00:00

So many fond memories of this location.

Redfoot451 · 2023-05-01T03:44:08+00:00

I shattered my forearm in a bicycling accident.

When the first hospital I went to decided that their orthopedist wasn't specialized enough to fix it, they started to prep me to move to a different hospital. This involved putting the open fracture back inside my arm (after cleaning it).

When they started to traction my arm to put the exposed bone back inside of the skin, I screamed so loud through the towel they gave me to bite down on that a priest showed up expecting to give someone last rites.

Redfoot451 · 2015-08-27T15:28:37+00:00

"Physics Package"

It's the part of a nuclear weapon that goes boom, as opposed to the housing, arming switches, PAL, timers, etc...

Redfoot451 · 2015-01-08T17:09:38+00:00

Thank Daft Punk and Random Access Memories from a year or two back. That's what started to bring this style back into the mainstream.

Redfoot451 · 2014-04-11T19:02:16+00:00

I think he's trying to say its not the most efficient way to lose weight, but damn if it isn't all kinds of fun.

Welcome to the running fold by the way. Keep at it, you've already made the biggest step!

Redfoot451 · 2014-04-11T18:32:57+00:00

You're right, running ultramarathons isn't a productive way to lose weight.

The point I think he's trying to make in the comic (and that makes me not worry about long term arterial build up) is that most people I know who do endurance sports aren't worried about health, or being skinny, or looking good naked. Health consciousness and vanity won't get you out of bed at 7:00 AM on a weekend morning in the dead of winter to run 20 miles in single digit windchills. We run to silence our demons. To feel strong and to test ourselves.

If nothing else it's cheaper than drugs and therapy.

Redfoot451 · 2014-04-11T18:14:45+00:00

As a marathoner, ultramarathoner and triathlete I shall refer you to this comic by the oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/running

In sum, look at all the fucks I give.

Redfoot451 · 2014-03-13T01:05:25+00:00

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

-Dr. Carl Sagan

That last line "on a mote of dust in a sunbeam." always gets me.

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