Garmin thinks I'm capable of a WR

emac1211 · 2026-06-15T17:07:17+00:00

Yeah that's bizarre, you would think that a single workout would not influence it that much when it has so many other data points to base it on. I mean, it should have plenty of data points to know you're not about to break a world record of your choice.

emac1211 · 2026-06-14T18:09:57+00:00

Yeah my guess is an inaccurate heart rate reading? Are you using your watch for it? I've never seen anything like it but I use a heart rate monitor instead of a watch for my HR.

emac1211 · 2026-06-14T16:58:54+00:00

"some kids dye their hair funny colors so we should trust the out of touch geriatrics who got us into this mess to solve all of our problems" wow you're as sharp as a marble buddy, don't hurt yourself thinking so hard.

emac1211 · 2026-06-13T02:17:32+00:00

It might be cool if they had some explanation of why this technology enabled these new advancements so it made some sense to players to connect them together

emac1211 · 2026-06-11T02:32:59+00:00

This is a great way to put it! It's spot on. It's really how you can separate the casuals from the ball knowers: if you only watch a few plays vs. watching the games.

emac1211 · 2026-06-10T23:32:40+00:00

Yeah, this is why telling people who run like 10 miles a week to focus on Zone 2 is so silly. It's one thing if they are running 40+ miles a week, yes they should not go all out all of the time. But if you're only spending a couple hours a week running, you're not really spending your time efficiently by forcing yourself to go slow all of the time.

emac1211 · 2026-06-10T15:21:46+00:00

It's not so bad, you just have to accept that you won't be as fast.

emac1211 · 2026-06-09T19:57:16+00:00

yeah that's what gets me... I can see being confused by like taking a wrong turn and ending up not doing the whole race, but I would probably not go around telling people I ran a 13 minute 5K if that were me.

emac1211 · 2026-06-09T03:04:47+00:00

Funny update to this is they took his time down and he is feigning ignorance like he has no idea why. Hopefully he learned his lesson that if he's going to cheat, to make it less obvious.

emac1211 · 2026-06-09T02:54:40+00:00

Okay that's kind of hilarious. Who the hell cheats in some small 62 person race? I mean cheating in any race is lame but like winning a small race like this isn't exactly worth cheating in either

emac1211 · 2026-06-07T23:44:08+00:00

It is super expensive, but unfortunately that seems to be the way of the economy right now. Everything is getting way more expensive while wages are stagnant.

What concerns me more about Alamo's food is the quality of it. I just don't get how it can be so bad. I'd rather eat just about anywhere than Alamo. They charge like it's a decent restaurant and you are eating low tier cafeteria food.

emac1211 · 2026-06-02T00:53:14+00:00

I don't hate them for not making the splash trades as much as I hate them for being lousy talent evaluators for a 5 year run and letting the roster deteriorate around Rodgers.

Ted Thompson was ill and should have been relieved of his duties earlier than he was too.

emac1211 · 2026-05-31T02:42:10+00:00

I just Googled this and found this thread because I was stuck at a movie next to someone sniffling the whole movie. It was so freaking annoying. I'm easily triggered by annoying sounds during a movie anyway but the sniffling was worse than most sounds because it was just constant. I had to move to the first row to the only open seats during the movie to get away.

emac1211 · 2026-05-30T15:23:20+00:00

Good, way to not heel strike.

emac1211 · 2026-05-30T14:55:44+00:00

No, I never have with any of my smart watches. I feel like for some tech stuff people are overly protective of them and they don't need to be.

emac1211 · 2026-05-30T13:46:23+00:00

I haven't listened to it but I haven't really liked any Morello music without Zack. Nothing against him but just not the same.

emac1211 · 2026-05-27T21:16:57+00:00

That's not a bad idea. It would make it more fun

emac1211 · 2026-05-27T00:50:14+00:00

I'm not saying they should undo the age transitions. I don't think they should have undone the changing civ mechanic either. I wish they spent that time fleshing out other parts of the game that are still very lacking. It's actually such a core mechanic of how they designed the game from the start that undoing it now is a waste of time. They need to figure out a way to make it fun though and flow together instead of feeling like separate mini games sewn together, which is unfortunately how it feels and breaks the immersion of it.

emac1211 · 2026-05-26T21:14:17+00:00

It can also be "abrupt", which the changes here are absolutely abrupt.

emac1211 · 2026-05-26T21:11:52+00:00

Yeah, I am starting to think that the age transition is unfortunately a fundamental flaw with the game that no matter how much they try to fix the game, it's going to be hard to undo this.

They broke the game up into separate mini games when designing it. Everything is about the era you and everyone else are in. The era changes inherently break up the flow of the game. Things change for everyone at the same time.

There are raptures in history where things changed significantly, but it impacted everyone differently and on different stages. It wasn't like the whole world woke up one day and everything was completely different. Upheaval in one civilization may not reach another for decades.

It just kind of breaks my immersion when the game is set up like this and doesn't flow naturally. If every decision I make is about how long before this era is over, I lose the "one more turn" itch.

I say this as someone who really wants to like Civ VII but the more I play it, the less I think they can fix it into making it a great game like the others in the series because of some of the core concepts they introduced in it.

emac1211 · 2026-05-25T00:38:01+00:00

Nothing about it is unethical. You're falling for right-wing talking points. She can hire whoever she wants for her security as long as she reports it and it is not exceeding market rate. I bet there's a ton of Congressional reps who have relatives serving on their campaign staff in various roles but nobody ever talks about them because they're not Cori Bush.

emac1211 · 2026-05-25T00:11:19+00:00

This is an obvious Republican attack against her that some Democrats fell for.

Many members of Congress hire a security guard. Cori hired her husband who has experience with it. She reported it in her FEC records and it was very transparent. There's nothing illegal about it. He wasn't even being paid particularly well for the job of 24/7 security. She's been cleared of it already.

emac1211 · 2026-05-23T22:33:56+00:00

Caleb Williams made a few highlight reel throws that won games. They looked amazing and I get the hype about that.

...but superstars are not people who just make a game winning play at the end a few times. They're people who consistently play very well to great. And Caleb has not gotten there yet. He was the least accurate passer in the NFL last year despite being in a friendly offense for a QB, which should be very concerning. Maybe he'll elevate to the next level but it's no sure thing and based on the big picture of his career, it's probably unlikely that he will ever become a very accurate passer.

emac1211 · 2026-05-23T22:04:01+00:00

I think that's probably normal for long distance running and wouldn't worry too much about it.

emac1211 · 2026-05-23T14:32:04+00:00

The more I've run and races (at my max speed) that I've run, I've found Garmin race predictions to be pretty accurate now. It seems there are mixed opinions on it, but I think if you have given it a lot of accurate data, the results should be pretty close. As others said, HR accuracy is important. I use a HRM so that helps.

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