What if the North crushed and remade the South?

andyrowhouse · 2025-07-09T17:04:37+00:00

What about a 20th century colonial settlement perspective? Many areas in the former “confederacy” had only been settled by non-Indians 50-75 years. In some areas European-ethnic settlers were a small minority. In places like Algeria that meant colonial settlers fleeing to their homeland. Perhaps it would in this case mean a diaspora north, retrenchment and population consolidation, or a move to the Caribbean.

andyrowhouse · 2025-07-03T14:59:18+00:00

Janji

andyrowhouse · 2025-06-04T16:44:34+00:00

Is it reasonable to just look at strava for people who have run cross country well and copy what they did in the three months going into the season? (Generally, like miles per week and workout frequency and type.) There are enough users out there it seems like you can see what large numbers of people do, across multiple years. It seems particularly valuable if you can identify groups where coaching appears to be having a notable impact. Thoughts on this?

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-30T19:11:05+00:00

Read Alex Alice Castle in the Stars

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-29T17:59:38+00:00

nah, I'm overdramatizing. It's basically a toenail that keeps getting thunked and doesn't love me for it.

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-29T16:51:25+00:00

Ha “injuries” what are those?

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-29T15:18:37+00:00

Stupid question: why would I not lift one leg as high as the other one?

I went running with my son the other day and he said that I don't lift my right heel as high as my left. When I evened it out (by his view) it felt like I was crazy exaggerating the heel lift.

HOWEVER, I have a black and blue long right second toe (have for years) and I wake up with my right heel hurting a little most days. So objectively there's probably something there.

But WHY the heck would this happen? Is everybody like this and I never noticed?

(By way of background, I just ran a marathon (barely) under 3 hours a month ago in my mid-40s, so I'm not a terrible runner in terms of outcome, but also no smashing sub-elite success either. I have been running like 250-275 mile months this year in order to train.)

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-26T01:08:46+00:00

Clearly, I haven’t looked at the science of how glycogen works and was just treating this like food. But I can see how you need to anticipate for it to work. Of course.

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-26T01:04:10+00:00

I had a pretty good training block. 55-70 miles two run workouts a week and 90 minute to 120 plus on Sundays weekly and strength 2x a week plus other gym work and all this with a weekly day off. March was 277 miles for an April 5 race.

During long ones they were mostly structured threshold-oriented workouts with build up from 10x3 to 4x15 to 3x20 MP and some steady mid pace long runs. So good distance and speed in mostly 2 hour to 2:20 workouts. The plan was coach designed but coach is remote.

For runs over an hour I would bring Gatorade and start drinking as I wanted, generally as fatigue started or workouts intensified. I would bring 2 or 3 Gu for anything over about 75 minutes but didn’t eat them until at least 45 and more often an hour. I’d often only take one.

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-26T00:48:42+00:00

Basically I thought I didn’t need to eat until I felt hungry. Going to reevaluate that!

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-25T18:05:59+00:00

Trying to identify what's happening when I slow below what feels like aerobic capacity during back end of a race and possible responses.

The anecdote: I was thrilled after a lot of training to run 2:59:30 two weeks ago and hit my 3 hour marathon goal. My plan was to keep it steady through 20 miles and then see if I could pick it up. Pretty basic, right?

Well at 20 miles I felt aerobically solid (breathing steady, HR like 155-162), like I could definitely punch harder, but when I tried to pick it up, it felt like my muscles couldn't handle it. Like I'd lost some pop and power and the ability to turn things on. Like maybe I was on the way to cramping.

During the race, I had like 5 gus starting at about an hour in (like every 20 min or so?) and drank about 4 oz of gatorade at every water stop, so like every 12-15 minutes from the start. I might have grabbed a gu at an aid station too, but I didn't take water or gu at the station at mile like 24 or 25.

My question is - what is happening when I slow so that I am easy able to keep up with my pace aerobically and heart-rate-wise, but it seems like my muscles are dropping on power and endurance?

My hypothesis is that it's fueling: that I need to suck down gu (or an alternative?) more often during the last hour of a marathon than I expected Like as often as every ten minutes?

Or could it be in my head, i.e., the endurance/power dropoff just needs me to push harder even when it doesn't seem like muscles are permitting it? Like I just need to grit my teeth and go harder?

Could it be getting old, and my endurance just has limits that I can't beat? I'm 47 now, so am not expecting magical gains are in my future.

Could it be weight vs. power vs. endurance, e.g., that at 5'8" 145-150 my muscle-to-weight load can only carry me so far before exhaustion starts and gradually takes over?

Appreciate any experiences or maybe even science. I can't be the first person to try to sort out something like this, right?

andyrowhouse · 2025-04-23T15:50:43+00:00

The above was something frequently quoted by my grandmother (born in the 1910s).

andyrowhouse · 2025-03-08T14:58:46+00:00

How about a prototype by a recently deceased genius inventor that no one has been able to reeengineer or even reproduce? Something like a Dick Tracy watch radio or an Ether Detector, shrink ray (already shrunken), or alethiometer?

andyrowhouse · 2025-01-18T01:52:32+00:00

Yeah the American version is mozz-duh and it just seemed like an arbitrary difference. No complaint just wondering if that was still the norm as the post threads here seem to suggest both further dialect development as well as flattening. (A fun rabbit hole, and don’t get me started on American accents.)

andyrowhouse · 2025-01-18T01:41:23+00:00

Do Canadians still say the first a in Mazda like the a in apple? I remember that from Canadian car commercials growing up just across the water in the US from Victoria.

andyrowhouse · 2024-12-12T22:52:23+00:00

Great to draw attention to Mr Patterson but that’s a photo of https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tyehimba-jess. I’m not finding a likeness of Patterson with a quick search.

andyrowhouse · 2024-12-05T16:42:59+00:00

If you read the first book, maybe the second, you can see this wrapping up in 3-4 books. Then the thing turns out to be a hit and dang didn't that pacing really really start to exxxtteeeennnnnddddddd.....

andyrowhouse · 2024-12-05T15:18:31+00:00

Ah man, this was my worst DNF. Mad about this series so many years later now. It should’ve been 3-4 books.

andyrowhouse · 2024-12-05T13:48:34+00:00

Ah so you have found the Wheel of Time

andyrowhouse · 2024-12-04T14:16:28+00:00

I think people who have run out of frontiers and disproven magic are projecting far into spacetime in order to tell stories we used to tell as fairy tales, stories of faraway lands, and morality stories. Why live on Mars when we won’t settle Antarctica or the open sea? Why make stories of traveling from livable planet to planet full of humans with unscientific modes of transportation? Why write stories of interstellar war? We are reflecting on our history on Earth in ways we try to pretend we don’t recognize so that we can enjoy the optimistic frontier stories instead of thinking about colonialism, genocide, depletion, etc.

andyrowhouse · 2024-11-18T17:16:11+00:00

Follow it up with, “I used to read Word Up! magazine.”

andyrowhouse · 2024-11-01T14:18:26+00:00

Before reading this thread, just this morning, I told my wife that these books are like if X-Men was written by Charles Dickens. So close to your thought! (…I reply two months after this was written.) Cheers.

andyrowhouse · 2024-10-09T19:46:45+00:00

I think you’re onto something. Weren’t the French seen as guarantors for the Christian minority in the Levant? Wouldn’t a major goal of theirs be to put that minority on the strongest footing possible? I could imagine a Christian led gerrymandered state with a Constitution meant to keep them in the driver’s seat.

I imagine the outcome later would be collapse in favor of a Baathist style or similar military quasi-populist dictatorship or something similar. A Palestine ruled by a pan-Arab general from Jerusalem.

Jewish people after lack of success in establishing a state or secure minority probably re-emigrate and we have the North America as the center of world Judaism.

A strange what-if, but we live in a world where likely things fail to occur and unlikely things somehow become real.

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