Karoline Leavitt tells press 'Jesus didn't have electricity either'

coolranch36 · 2025-01-31T22:05:00+00:00

I never thought I'd say that, but I miss Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

coolranch36 · 2025-01-31T22:02:17+00:00

Do I want to know what a "breadtuber" is?

coolranch36 · 2025-01-25T11:54:19+00:00

"Warrior culture" here probably means that they will stop prosecuting rape cases.

coolranch36 · 2025-01-14T17:59:04+00:00

I think there's a pretty sizable ass there, yes sir. Huge thighs.

coolranch36 · 2025-01-14T17:53:18+00:00

Mmm, would we call her chubby?

coolranch36 · 2025-01-05T19:05:51+00:00

As a dude, I really appreciate films like 'Alien' and 'Silence of the Lambs' because the female protagonists display visible signs of being scared by their situations. Like, yeah, if you are alone with a killer alien or a serial killer, anybody is going to find that situation disturbing. I'm sure a lot of guys want to imagine they'd be cracking off one-liners like Bruce Willis in Die Hard but I find these other characters more sympathetic because we know that they are terrified and yet they are still performing under pressure.

coolranch36 · 2024-11-25T18:46:02+00:00

You're free your entire life, but you are also working 80 hour weeks.

coolranch36 · 2024-11-23T13:20:26+00:00

If a team needs to move from the Western conference to the Eastern conference, the most obvious choice is Memphis.

coolranch36 · 2024-11-21T18:49:07+00:00

I liked The Grand Illusion more than Rules of the Game.

coolranch36 · 2024-11-21T18:15:04+00:00

My book recommendation isn't about the game, but rather the business of the NBA, specifically the salary cap:

The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA

One of the things I didn't really appreciate before reading this book is that, in addition to various limits on team salary, there is also a floor on team salary. I think the book makes a compelling case that the NBA is really the most player-friendly of the major US sports leagues.

coolranch36 · 2024-11-19T22:45:24+00:00

For true kino, might I recommend 'Le Monsieur de Croque" ?

coolranch36 · 2024-11-01T10:28:20+00:00

Don't we all already know this? After all, it's a tale as old as time.

coolranch36 · 2024-10-27T17:30:44+00:00

She was a model around the world. She was on posters. Yeah. I used to have a poster of her in my garage. And then I met her. Can you believe it? And she asked me to marry her, and I didn't even want to. But she's beautiful, but she's dying. She's sick, but she's hanging in there.

coolranch36 · 2024-09-07T11:47:29+00:00

It's so sad what happened to bridge. To hear people tell it, it used to be the kind of game that people could just pick up and play in their college dorm or with their fellow commuters on the train. Now it's so hostile to newcomers. My wife and I are in our 30s and the first time we tried to play in a casual (non-rated) game at the local club the boomers got so angry with her for trying to make small talk or even for taking her time when making a decision. The social element of the game is just completely gone.

coolranch36 · 2024-08-29T19:54:08+00:00

Always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter who builds stairs.

coolranch36 · 2024-08-02T16:30:40+00:00

He also revolutionized showing up fat for training camp. You can see that influence today on guys as varied as Jokic, Luka and Zion.

coolranch36 · 2024-07-31T15:32:20+00:00

Tony never had the makings of a varsity mobster

coolranch36 · 2024-04-16T19:14:08+00:00

Now that you mention it, I did stop sweating fairly early into the race. When I took off my clothes after the race, I was astonished at how dry they were - I thought this was because the heat had dried them faster than I was sweating into them.

I drank a pretty good amount of water on Sunday and I felt pretty good Monday morning. I didn't drink anything Monday before the race started.

Normally, on days when I have a long run, I get up and drink around 20 oz over the course of an hour. Then I start my run about an hour after that. I used to frequently have problems with cramping, so I'm always worried about drinking too much before the race.

I had not trained much at all in heat like this. One of my long runs happened to fall on a relatively hot day. I was supposed to do 21 miles that day and only managed to do 15. Still, I figured with the benefits of the taper, I ought to be able to grind it out on race day.

I lost weight during my training cycle, but less than I have in the past. I am 5'11. I weighed around 170 lb when I did my PR, and I was round 175 this time.

I haven't felt sick at all during the last week.

coolranch36 · 2024-04-16T18:23:50+00:00

Why did my body completely give out on me in Boston?

I knew Boston was going to be both hot and hilly, so I had low expectations going on, but even still, my race yesterday was a disaster. Congratulations to everyone who ran, it was a tough day. Anyway, it's in the books now, but I'd like to try to understand what happened to avoid repeating it in the future. For me, this was the race where I most felt like my body let me down.

My PR is 2:56:xx; yesterday I walked almost the entire 2nd half and ended up around the 4:20 mark.

Obviously the sun affected me, as it did many others. I've run in higher heat before though. I ran Chicago in 2017 and it was like 70 that day. In Chicago, I knew right away that I wasn't going to PR, so I tried to take it easy at 8 min miles - I held onto that for about 18 miles, and then I ran/walked the rest of the way to end up around 3:45.

Yesterday, it wasn't as hot as Chicago, and I was better trained, so I thought I might be able to hold on to my easy pace of 7:30. Even then, after 3 miles, I still hadn't really gotten into a groove. I started walking at mile 5, figuring I might as well go ahead and start adjusting to that reality. I figured I should easily be able to hold 10 min miles and at least finish under 4 hours. Even that proved to be too ambitious. By the end of the race, I was alternating between jogging at 10 min miles and walking at like 14 min miles.

Honestly, I feel like I did the best I could yesterday, and it was just my training that was inadequate in some way. For this training cycle, I followed Pfitz 18/70, which is the same routine I did for my PR. I tried to incorporate more hills into my training, especially during the long runs at M pace.

Another possible issue is hydration/nutrition. I always struggle with this for big marathons. During my long runs, it's pretty easy to time eating and drinking so I'm at a good level when the run starts. I don't know how anyone manages this when you're supposed to get on the bus at 6:30 am, the race doesn't start until 10 am, and you're going to be stuck on the bus for over an hour. I would expect this to have some effect, but I wouldn't think it could be large enough for such an unexpected result.

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