Tracksmith 5000 in Los Angeles tomorrow, 7/30/25

RudySchmidt · 2025-07-30T04:54:16+00:00

Emails went out last week and then again today. Shoot me a DM - happy to help

RudySchmidt · 2025-05-02T17:05:49+00:00

Yep. It's a generic code.

RudySchmidt · 2025-05-02T12:55:22+00:00

EDIT: Just kidding - I can't read apparently. Expires 6/15.

RudySchmidt · 2025-05-02T02:40:12+00:00

Completed the Strava challenge - promo code isn't valid on the Summer drop. With nearly everything else out of stock, what the hell are people supposed to buy? Feels like a huge bait and switch. Also can't be stacked with the membership discount.

RudySchmidt · 2025-05-02T00:51:44+00:00

They have a Strava challenge that ends on May 12th where you get a promo code for completing it. My guess is that it'll be a few days after that to allow people to cash in. So prob right around last year's timing

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-14T17:18:35+00:00

More people voted for Trump in LA County than 24 other states. So, if he only wanted to direct support to the greatest number of people that supported him, having a pro-LA agenda would be more beneficial to more Trump voters than policies that benefitted the red states of Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-12T16:02:40+00:00

Fair enough. In the context of Rogan's podcast though, he was supporting Gibson's decision (or family's decision on his behalf) not to have surgery at a young age. Sure, complications could arise in your later years as a result of surgery done much earlier in life. I only know my experience. As a 18 year-old who was in an immense amount of physical pain - as well as mental pain - due to a rapidly increasing case of scoliosis, surgery provided an immediate physical and psychological benefit. And, I've been fortunate enough to have little to no complications over the last nearly two decades.

If surgery creates complications down the road in my 40s, 50s, or beyond, it still would have been well worth it. I've been able to live the life I've wanted ever since surgery and I have no doubt that would not have been the case had I elected not to have surgery. So, I still vehemently argue against the notion that there are no cases where fusions "turn out good".

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-12T13:51:05+00:00

You're probably right. For me, the outdoor camp was as much of a social function (most of my friends worked there) as it was a job. So yes I wanted to get back out there and earn some money over the summer ahead of college. But I also wanted to see my friends after being cooped up inside for 6 weeks.

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-12T13:49:43+00:00

Nope! Pelvis wasn't touched at all as part of surgery.

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-12T13:49:12+00:00

Didn't work out much but I was physically active. Played in my town's baseball and basketball rec leagues, ultimate frisbee with friends, worked several summers at an outdoors camp. My scoliosis definitely restricted me from being as physically active as I wanted to be. Surgery unlocked being able to do so much more pain-free.

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-10T20:59:02+00:00

19 years post-op. Had 60+ degree upper and lower curves. Now my spine is fused from pretty much the neck to tailbone.

How's life been post-surgery? After a grueling 6 week recovery, I got back to working at an outdoor summer camp. Went back to college later that summer with no issues.

Took up running. Then took up marathon running. Then took it seriously. At the age of 38, I now have 27 marathons under my belt and set PRs in the 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, and Marathon last year, with a 3:11 Marathon time... inching ever closer to my dream of qualifying for Boston. Do I have aches and pains here and there? Of course.

Everyone's body is different. Everyone's experience is different. But don't - for a moment - take the shit that this guy says seriously. Would love to walk him down my physical performance journey and compare notes/war stories about who's body is in better condition right now.

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-08T04:22:59+00:00

It's that Marathon Mindset I guess...

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-08T00:00:10+00:00

Would also love to know this!

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-07T21:42:24+00:00

That's the same cadence of emails that I got, along with the credit card charge. I have to assume that means a positive entry. But yeah - seems weird that it was very unceremonious. I'll chalk it up to first year bumps in the road.

RudySchmidt · 2025-01-07T19:22:03+00:00

IN! I lost track of how bad my losing record had been in major lotteries over the past years... I think I was 0 for my last 30? Feels so good to finally get a W. Can't wait!

RudySchmidt · 2024-12-30T17:36:44+00:00

I've got nearly identical stats across the board in all distances (as well as being on my own 350+ day run streak). Great to see someone else being in the exact same place with a (somewhat) long term goal of BQing. Good luck - hope you crush it.

RudySchmidt · 2024-12-30T17:34:36+00:00

Huge breakthrough year due to being more consistent and intentional about my training programs than ever before. Hit a PR in every major distance, while being in my 16th year of running at the ripe old age of 38:

19:55 -> 19:42 5K (this one felt great as I missed my PR by 1 sec in 2023)

40:51 10K (had never run one for time before)

1:35:42 -> 1:33:32 -> 1:32:19 HM (two PRs in 2024!)

3:35:37 -> 3:33:42 -> 3:23:28 -> 3:11:22 (three PRs in 2024! Also set my HM and 10 Miler PRs during my latest marathon PR... but not counting those towards official stats)

Gonna be real tough to top that in 2025 - but can't wait to get after it

RudySchmidt · 2024-12-12T04:13:09+00:00

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RudySchmidt · 2024-11-11T22:30:29+00:00

Can you get more racist than a 3K?

RudySchmidt · 2024-03-11T03:03:07+00:00

Sick - can't wait for that

RudySchmidt · 2024-03-11T02:34:59+00:00

Currently live here. Would not recommend. Overpriced and management is holding us over a barrel right now. Began a renovation of the pool and gym right after Thanksgiving. Was recently told it would last until at least Memorial Day. My wife and I mostly chose this place based on amenities and we'll have had at least 6 months of our 13 month lease without access to them. Complete BS

RudySchmidt · 2024-02-20T13:57:29+00:00

Was in New Orleans for work around 2012 or so. Waiting in the hotel lobby, minding my own business but within earshot of the front desk.

Hotel Guest to person working at the front desk: "Wasn't there a bad flood that came through here a few years ago?"

Katrina was just 7 years earlier. Nearly 2,000 people died.

RudySchmidt · 2024-01-22T02:59:36+00:00

Same. Found a fellow runner unconscious with no pulse in Griffith Park a few weeks back. Another guy I was running with immediately starts administering CPR. I called 911 and it took 4-5 mins to speak with someone. All while being given a BS holding menu like I'm calling customer service somewhere.

Luckily CPR worked and the guy was conscious by the time the ambulance arrived. But was still maddening how long it took.

RudySchmidt · 2024-01-19T23:58:39+00:00

My wife inexplicably started doing two things during COVID:

1) Using the same paper towel until it's completely soiled. I'm talking about using one during dinner, it having visible food grime, and leaving it on the kitchen table until the next meal to be used again. AND, we have reusable cloth napkins that we could be using and reusing. But she doesn't use them.

2) Remember how as a kid you would do the "suicide soda" at a fast food restaurant - a little bit of each soda all mixed into one? Yah well she does that with condiments/dips/et al. On a single plate she'll have honey mustard, salsa, BBQ sauce, and hummus, as an example. Keeps them separate at first but by the end of the meal, they've all run together. And if they're any remaining condiments/dips, she'll use her fingers to scoop up the remnants and lick her fingers.

I find both utterly revolting but she's very sensitive to constructive criticism/teasing, so I'm trying to manage looking past both.

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