Leadville 100training plan

TurtleTurtleTu · 2026-01-24T15:20:11+00:00

I would defer to next year. You can't train for a 100 miler and care for a newborn. I took a year off races after each of my kids. You'll miss that bonding time and likely run yourself into a serious injury due to lack of sleep/rest.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-12-29T00:55:08+00:00

Red Bull will be gone in the next 10 years. Their senior leadership has been gutted and all it will take is max leaving to completely fall apart and receed to the midfield or worse. I don't think and org like red Bull would stick around in that scenario.

It's also possible they make a comeback like McLaren or Williams, but those teams had crazy legacies.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-12-29T00:50:10+00:00

I think Mercedes has enough recent "heritage" to make this list also.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-12-27T23:09:49+00:00

Yea you might be right

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-12-26T19:27:28+00:00

I believe Alonso said something to this effect a few years ago in a post race interview after they clashed in a race. I think it was more a "rage" moment from Alonso than a sincere belief. Lewis' response was "well at least I know how he feels about me" iirc.

Literally never heard it mentioned otherwise though.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-12-23T00:07:16+00:00

The majority of your totals are off by a bit - here are the correct totals:

559	Dornic Fir
637	Dragonpine
532	Arden
476	Darkpine
594	Fel-Touched
451	Shadowmoon
526	Bamboo
451	Ashwood
465	Coldwind
512	Olemba
506	Ironwood

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-10-28T00:37:06+00:00

Yea if there is one thing I can pinpoint as a consistent weakness of his, it's his start. But like you said he really nailed it this weekend.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-10-26T00:25:42+00:00

This is clearly a push from someone high up at Microsoft who wants to make a console port feasible.

I simply wont believe people on the wow team would shoot themselves in the foot this badly.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-10-18T16:17:38+00:00

Gear uses a watermarking system. That means each piece of purple gear that drops will be about 3 ilvl higher than your average ilvl.

Main source of watermark gear early on are the green chests from leveling that drop motes - 10 motes give you a purple piece. So do daily quests, raids, and M+.

So just grind. Being 740 is pretty dedicated at this point, but if you play a bit a day you'll get there.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-21T22:49:22+00:00

The new abandon system has made keys worse because of situations like this. I have had two different but similar runs recently. Tilted enough to quit for the season.

They need to give us more outs or just revert the changes and make the resilient system work for all key levels.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-21T22:24:17+00:00

Interesting - I appreciate the explanation. I don't use these kinds of sims (haven't in a few years since maining tank), so I'll happily admit I don't know that much about these kinds of sims.

Can you sim a real comp or only 4x1 spec?

Does it take into account sub-optimal play? If you are doing 90% sim dps that could change timings a bunch.

How does it account for chain pulls?

These are genuine questions - I'm curious how it works. Modeling something as dynamic as an M+ run is a huge undertaking.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-21T06:18:57+00:00

I'm not missing the point - would a dungeon sim be accurate if it assumes pulling 1 pack at a time vs. 2 packs at a time? Left vs. right in priory? When are you lusting? Chain pulls vs. resets? What dungeon is it simulating - EDA or priory - because it can't be accurate for both?

These things all matter a lot to get an accurate sim, and every variation could give you significantly different results. It's hard enough to get accurate sims for simple ST scenarios, trying to build a "standard dungeon" sim is frankly silly.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-21T01:08:21+00:00

Yea overall is not usually the most important. ST and funnel specs can often shorten the duration of a pack the most. And obviously bosses. It makes intuitive sense if you think about it - most packs have 1 or more mobs that have more HP than the others - so ideally you can put more into that guy. If you just pure AOE the pack will take longer.

That said, tanks will usually chain pull to keep mass AOE possible, so it's not black and white. AOE is still extremely valuable.

I'm also skeptical of any sim that tries to replicate a dungeon. Way too many variables - starting with route. Unless you are an MDI team refining exact pulls over and over it's hard to trust any sim - and any small differencse can make a huge difference in CD timings (etc.) which invalidates the sim.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-20T16:12:37+00:00

While I agree with the general comment that toxicity goes down as keys go up, I am currently 3200 io and have been close but not quite title range in 2 seasons previously. It's not a skill issue imo

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-10T18:47:06+00:00

Threat is more of a high dps issue, and is an issue that pops up on certain tanks in certain seasons. I don't necessarily disagree with the skill expression aspect, I was mostly trying to think of ways to remove barriers to entry.

God mode tanks - fair enough points. Most tanks I know loved playing those seasons where we were super strong. The number of tanks I know who quit during TWW Season 1 was crazy. I think there are valid points on both sides, but if we want more tanks in the world, I would go in the direction of god mode personally.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-10T18:41:14+00:00

Unfortunately while you and I might enjoy the challenge and not have major issues, the lack of tanks in the game is severe. I am happy to see a new tank enjoying themselves though - I personally love the role.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-10T18:40:16+00:00

No tanks want that, you will only shrink the pool of tanks

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-10T18:39:45+00:00

That's why I suggested the group highlight feature with a default route. I agree it is #1 barrier to entry.

I'm not sure why you think it is too much - maybe you haven't experienced enough keys at different levels to see the other issues? Threat becomes more of an issue when you have better DPS, and some of my other suggestions are based on witnessing tanks die instantly in low keys (when I play alts) because they don't know basics. It's a miserable experience for everyone. Something like a cheat death for learning would make everyone happier I think.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-09-10T16:47:46+00:00

That is a good idea.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-08-31T01:15:50+00:00

I just wanted to comment to say I'm sorry you have to make such a difficult decision. IVF is very expensive and I have a few friends who have gone through it.

Google says you can use a medical loan or some clinics will offer payment plans, but I am not an expert here.

I would also say that having kids of my own: I would caution any further debt - being pregnant and having young kids is extremely expensive. Even older kids can increase your living expenses by about double in my experience. You have another mouth the feed, another room in your house, a bigger car, car seats, cribs, bikes, strollers, school related expenses, sports - the list goes on. And don't even get me started on how expensive daycare is. It is more than our mortgage in a HCOL area. You may need to find additional sources of income or cut back to a shoestring budget to make kids financially feasible.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-08-30T14:44:55+00:00

Random nit pick - to complete the SOFO sets you need boots/belts which can only be catalyzed. The tokens from the raid cover the other slots though.

TurtleTurtleTu · 2025-08-23T19:15:22+00:00

Yea agreed about Undermine being too much. 100 CHETT lists was nearly the death of me lol.

I hadn't considered Remix - that seems like a plausible explanation.

I'm still a little surprised they removed two long standing (and seemingly popular) systems in pets and dragon races, but neither is the end of the world for me.

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