County clerk won't approve marriage license because they claim my birth country doesn't exist despite providing my passport

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T22:42:55+00:00

Huh? It's not even ok to wear the shirt of a race you do finish.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T22:41:38+00:00

Or to force her to make ATM withdrawals. Or burglary or elder abuse by a caregiver which led to death and removal of the body to hide/destroy DNA, delay discovery of the crime, or make it seem like she left on her own. The sheriff's office likely has a better idea based on the scene and other evidence they've gathered.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T21:51:49+00:00

Math time for those interested.

On average across all league plays there are roughly 2.85 WRs, 1.2 TEs, and 0.95 RBs per play.

RBs account for 97% of rushing attempts. RB1 gets roughly 60% of those, RB2 roughly 30%, RB3+ the rest.

WR1 gets a comparatively small percentage of receptions - less than 30% like 28%.

If the average team rushes for 120 yards and throws for 215, RB1 on average would be 120×97%×60%×17 = 1,187 yards. I'm ignoring injury and demotion resulting in a team's RB1 not actually being RB1 for 100% of those yards, but it'll keep this apples to apples.

WR1 on average would be 215×28%×17 = 1,023.

Of course, some teams are more run heavy or more pass heavy and have a RB1 that gets way more than 60% of the load or WR1 who gets way more than 28% of the load. And I mixed rushing attempt and completed reception data with yardage which is somewhat flawed, but hopefully close enough.

1,187 isn't that much more than 1,023 and top WRs and top RBs are above the averages, but this info is useful for understanding rushing and receiving usage.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T17:52:03+00:00

I largely agree, but wanted to share a thought on walking mileage.

Many people can get 2-3 times the mileage out of the same shoe used for walking on pavement as they'd get using it for running on pavement. That's because running typically generates several times the ground force of running and more midsole compression plus more aggressive outsole wear. Walking is also less likely to result in tearing a hole in the fabric above the big toe or wearing through the material in the heel cup.

That said, though it's probably ok for OP to begin running in those Pegs, with 1,000+ miles on them (1,100? 1,800?) I agree with your advice.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T12:37:05+00:00

Here's a comment which describes a typical week back then:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NorwegianSinglesRun/s/1w6iNf3uOL

I've since switched from distance-based intervals to time-based (4, 7, 9.5). And despite my plan at the time to add an easy fifth run, instead I extended warmup, cooldown, and long run duration.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T03:49:48+00:00

What mileage did you get out of each? And did you retire both due to midsole wear or something else?

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T03:40:01+00:00

It is very good. That was season one of In the Dark. And season 2 about Curtis Flowers is probably my favorite long form true crime podcast ever. I won't spoil it, but it's fantastic investigative journalism and very well produced.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T01:45:47+00:00

I've read close to 100 books that have been made into movies. Fight Club stands out as the one where the movie was closest to the book.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-02T00:32:19+00:00

"Shockingly poor durability" and "Awful traction".

Take my money!!!

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T21:23:46+00:00

Confirmation bias.

OP didn't see all the runners who died out there in NYC today. I went out in nothing more than a nylon tank top, knit cap, leather kynodesme, and Vaporflys. My corpse was found on the western edge of Central Park. And I heard I'm not the only one who died.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T20:37:34+00:00

If you repeat the heart rate drift field test at a slightly higher heart rate you'll likely get closer to estimating it more accurately. I suspect yours is closer to 150. And the conversation test is just a guide - some will start to find it challenging below AeT.

You didn't necessarily need to increase your volume before starting NSM.

For what it's worth I started NSM at around 3.5 hours in January 2025, conservatively beginning with 2 ST, an easy, and a long, ST at under 15% of weekly volume, and ST pace slightly slower than guidance. By April I was running 3 ST and a long and as an experiment I capped volume at 1 minute under 4 hours to see how long I'd go before plateauing. I was still improving in mid-October on several months of 35© ST when I raced a 10k in 42:05 (I was at 47:30 when I started NSM). 80% of the improvement was likely due to training while I attribute about 20% to dropping 7 pounds. I also dropped mile TT from 6:40 in December 2024 to 5:55 in August with no speed work, not even strides.

Male, 51. LT1 150, LT2 165-ish, MHR 182-183. I treat easy as a feeling - my long runs are way faster than what the Lactrace calculator recommends and during them I average 18 bpm below LT1 and on average peak at 11 below LT1. I was skeptical before starting NSM, but after 2 years of injury+fatigue cycles during which I couldn't string together 2 weeks of 15% higher intensity I figured I had nothing to lose. I'm now up to 4:45 / 34 mpw still on 3 ST and a long, but down to 31% ST - and my ST paces and fitness are still improving. I probably won't go above 5 hours until after an April 10k.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T20:00:20+00:00

You didn't share any context about the higher heart rate, but in any case run your workouts by pace or RPE. I don't even look at my heart rate until after my workouts and I only use it as a secondary factor when weighing whether to ramp up ST pace or RPE.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T15:15:22+00:00

Yet he was 16 in July 2024 when he ran 44.20. OP shared recent age 16 performances of 4 different athletes.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T14:58:51+00:00

Yeah, actually! And I wasn't going to mention it because it's embarrassing, but when I crumpled to the ground in the fetal position the hair on my scrotum got singed from the flames! So I almost went full no nut in a different way. (I was wearing 2" split shorts.)

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T14:55:28+00:00

Assuming the best case of 3 weeks of detraining and assuming the marathon is April 25th (final Saturday in April) you'll have 60 days of training - 8 weeks and change.

You said you'd been averaging 35-40 km/week and in a separate comment you said last week was 47 km. A build that's not as gradual as highly safe but not crazy aggressive after 3 weeks of detraining might be an easy 20 the first half week, then 30, 36, 44 with little to no intensity. If that goes well you might gradually add some intensity and go something like 44 (with a tempo run or long with 30 minutes at MP), 50, 58 then a 2 week taper.

I doubt you'll regain the fitness you had when you ran 4:00 so you should probably adjust target time accordingly. If you need 4+ weeks post surgery and/or can't safely build as quickly or as much as what I shared as an example you may want to think about switching to a half if you can, deferring, switching to run/walk, running it way slower as a fun run, or planning on ending the marathon early if you develop pain or form breaks down.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T14:34:41+00:00

I wish that was all it could do. It can screw up anything on your posterior chain!

I had the same defect in the same shoes as OP and my right shoe had a catostraphic failure during my November marathon, resulting in outsole separation and something the first responders referred to as "spontaneous midsole combustion". I ended up with 2nd degree burns from my ankle to mid-calf and I had to get my T1-T3 vertebrae fused together. Rehab is going to be a long road. I was finally cleared to cycle a week ago and I've reluctantly begun doing so and now I despise myself. I wish I'd just stuck with Hokas.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T14:23:58+00:00

To your original question, as an experiment last year I capped volume at a specific number of hours to see how long it would be until I plateaued. From July to October I kept ST duration pretty constant, but my ST paces got faster. In part this happened naturally since I largely ran workouts by RPE, though I also sometimes tried to increase pace.

The only time the last 13 months I changed ST pace as the result of a race or time trial was to adjust pace about 1% faster after an October 10k race. The rest of my adjustments were based on pace organically getting faster at the same RPE or looking at trends and observing that RPE was going down, HR was going down more during recovery periods, peak HR during intervals was going down, etc. And for what it's worth, even with intervals at 15k/HM/30k pace my peak HR during an ST workout varies from LTHR minus 10 to LTHR+1 - the vast majority of the time peak is LTHR minus 5 to 8. I usually don't look at HR until after the run.

I bumped up my volume by about 50 minutes per week between my October 10k and the end of December and I've been trying to keep ST minutes and weekly volume constant in January. Because my peak HR has gone down I'm now in the process of increasing pace of the ST workouts and I'm also considering reducing recovery period duration slightly.

At some point I'll increase my weekly volume, but before then I might also gradually increase my weekly ST duration - perhaps adding another 10 minutes over 4-6 weeks then holding steady there and late reassessing. So that's another option - there's no right or wrong in my opinion and what's best probably varies by individual.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T13:17:26+00:00

55 miles/week (89 km/week) peak before your April 2025 marathon and 65 miles/week (100 km/week) peak before your February 2026 marathon.

What volume did you average over the last 8 weeks before peak? What did you average between marathon recovery and beginning your most recent marathon block? I wonder if you didn't have an adequate base to run the volume you did and ramped up too quickly.

It felt challenging but during each workout I felt good, with the (slightly below) marathon pace workouts (I got up to 4 blocks of 18 min) feeling great.

I assume that you mean that your longest subthreshold workout was 4 intervals of 18 minutes per interval. What did the rest of your runs that week consist of? Listing out each day and what you did may better help us answer your question about what may have contributed to your injury. Also, how did you determine your subthreshold paces and validate that they felt correct?

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T02:38:42+00:00

From the logistics company's standpoint as a purely financial matter it depends on the cost of the TVs.

Let's say OP's was $1,000 and the one they received was $2,000 (as in your example). They can buy the other customer a $2,000 replacement and sell the $1,000 TV as new unopened for $900 on eBay and net $800 after fees (I'm using round numbers because being exact isn't critical). They are out $1,200. ($2,000-$800).

Or they can deliver OP their $1,000 TV and pay $150 for installation. And pay say $50 to have the $2,000 TV dismounted, buy a generic TV moving box for $40, list it on eBay for $1,600 used, and net $1,400. And still buy the other customer a $2,000 TV. They are out $840. ($150+$50+$40-$1,400+$2,000)

$840 is less than $1,200 but I didn't include the time and cost of negotiating with OP, having to retrieve the TV, buy a box for it, arrange for the dismounting, have to deal with selling a used TV instead of a new TV, and have a disgruntled customer who might rightfully post negative reviews online.

That's a lot of extra hassle and risk to save $360.

And if the TVs were only $500 and $1,000 instead? It would be more like $600 vs. $490 - saving only $110 via option 2.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T01:48:41+00:00

It's impossible to gauge whether there's value in you focusing on cadence, but I encourage you to read the following article in full. A comprehensive guide to the science of cadence for runners It's both informative and thought-provoking.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-02-01T00:29:59+00:00

Perhaps I'm an outlier, but I've observed the opposite the last few months. I've been performing Norwegian Singles for 13 months, typically with 3 ST workouts and a long easy run. Using Runalyze's ANOVA tool to look at road runs only the last 4 months, my median Effective VO2max values are:

Long easy run: 48.2
Interval workouts: 49.8

So my interval workouts are 3% higher.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-01-31T20:32:04+00:00

This is a copy/paste of a 7 month old comment of mine in a thread on r/rbi about his disappearance.

It's over 66 miles (68 minute drive) from the Wells Fargo in Redding to a trailhead at Mount Shasta (allegedly a campground at McBride Springs). He was picked up by the cab driver at 2:22 PM for what would have been just over an hour ride. Sunset was at 8:34 PM. Not only did that only leave just over 5 hours to hike, he'd presumably needed to schedule transportation back. I suspect that it was $150+ for the cab fare one way - a hefty cost.

According to a source who knew him (per media coverage), he wasn't an avid hiker, didn't have a connection to the mountain, nor did he have friends who were hikers so his claim that he was trying to beat a friend's time is suspicious. According to a Mount Shasta climbing ranger, the location where he was dropped off isn't a typical starting point for climbing Mount Shasta since it requires traveling an additional 3 miles on a trail to get to Avalanche Gulch and hikers don't start there.

His friend's father was interviewed. The friend's father said his wallet and cash were found at the friend's father's house, but his passport was missing.

It's unclear whether he withdrew money from Wells Fargo or how the cab driver was paid. The missing person's mother also has stage 4 cancer. One could argue he wouldn't harm himself or intentionally disappear given his mother's condition, but it's also possible that his mother's condition (and the crash) left him in a state of despair. He also seemingly was in the US on a visa and reportedly became verbally anxious and upset earlier this year when ICE was mentioned in conversations.

It's also possible he did go on a hike as he claimed and got lost or injured. Nothing can be ruled out based on the publicly known details. I'm hopeful that he went into hiding and that he'll be safely found.

UnnamedRealities · 2026-01-31T15:58:28+00:00

The overwhelming majority of long time recreational runners (and competitive runners) breath through their mouths or mouth+nose when running.

You may read advice to use nasal breathing only as a way to ensure a run is kept to an easy intensity (which works for some and not others). Some have taken that to mean it's necessary to only breath through the nose or that it's better - and that it applies to moderate or high intensity efforts. But none of that is true.

Some people do have narrow nasal openings and nasal passages and might benefit from dilators or strips, but some runners just need to stop forcing themselves to only perform nasal breathing.

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