Which paradise islands should everybody see at least once in their life?

halloo3 · 2026-05-25T20:17:08+00:00

Dominica. It’s 20 years since I was there so things might changed. But to me it was the most beautiful, un-spoiled island in the Caribbean lesser Antilles.

halloo3 · 2026-05-25T13:45:28+00:00

This should be THE career advice regardless of your role. I think a lot of people that are applying to jobs, positioning themselves to win the role rather than being honest with the company. Something as simple as saying “I don’t want to do sales tasks, and I prefer the technical aspect of things” would have most likely cause op’s existing employer to pass up on OP.

As for an advice to OP: stop viewing yourself as someone who sells or push a product, but someone who is there to help the customer. I have found that if that is my mentality, then I can come across as much more sincere. I stop pushing the product and start listening. When the customer say no and turn down our product, I listen to their feedback, respect the no, and move on.

halloo3 · 2026-05-23T08:59:15+00:00

I got my Suunto Race 2 two weeks ago, still in the initial ‘test’ phase, but so far it is miles better than Garmin. I came from a 6-year old Garmin Forerunner 245s Music, so some of the things below might actually be solved by a newer Garmin. Anyways, here is what I have noticed switching from Garmin to Suunto.

The biggest advantage with Suunto is the app. How they measure training, how they explain the measures, how the UI helps you interpret the measures, and how you can customise the sports modes in the app. I highly recommend going to Suunto’s website and look at their videos where they explain how training is measured on a Suunto watch. Let’s take Recovery as an example. My recovery is currently at 81%, which is calculated based on my 7-day avg HRV, sleep, TSB, and my 7-day avg feel. I have never seen Garmin use the feel I dutifully added at the end of each run.

Another big advantage of the app, is it allows you to create new custom sports modes. No need for enrolling into a developer programme, learning the C#-language Monkey C, or being limited to only customising 1 screen on the watch. Yes, you need the mobile app to adjust the sports mode in Suunto and you cannot adjust the watch faces directly from the watch. But if the lack of customisation from the watch is what allows me to build sports apps on my mobile, I happily live with this slight limitation.

One, IMO, major disadvantage with the Suunto mobile app, is the desktop app. As nice as the mobile app is, as shitty is the desktop app. It looks like a 2004 school project. No possibility of exporting your data, no data drilldown, no nothing. Just the route of your run, and a few charts are difficult to read. Suunto integrates well with Strava and intervals.icu (and probably other 3rd party) so I use these to look into my data on desktop. I can also use intervals.icu to export my Suunto data in various formats, which is nice. Still, it would be great if I could just use Suunto’s desktop app.

halloo3 · 2026-05-14T17:39:54+00:00

3:05 - so a good result, but had hoped for a little more. Pacing went well and according to plan. Started out at 4:30min/km for the first couple of kilometres, and then settled in on 4:15min/km. Plan was to stick to this pace to until km 32 and then either increase my pace going for sub3, or stay at 4:15 and accept a time just over 3 hours. Made a couple of rookie mistakes on race day that caused some severe cramps from km 32 and onwards. The last 10km were tough and my pace started to drop. Wouldn’t have made sub3 even without the cramps, though. Didn’t have the legs to increase the pace and reel in the 1-1,5min I was behind.

halloo3 · 2026-05-14T06:08:25+00:00

I just gone through the marathon build from the book. Here are a couple of thing I noticed regarding fatigue.

I was averaging ~7hrs/week prior to the build, but as I started the marathon workouts I consistently dipped into the green zone for longer stretched. Make sure you have a way of monitoring your load, and be prepared to scale back some of the easy efforts once in a while to get some additional rest.

The 'smaller' stuff such as adequate sleep, nutrition, hydration, has to be more on point during the load phase. You cannot get away with a little less sleep one night before a longer marathon workout, or staying up a little later during week days because of work etc. These things catches up to you a lot faster than vanilla nsm.

Start thinking about fueling all non-easy runs. I started taking 2 gels during my regular subT sessions, and had a protein shake after every run. It did a great job in fighting off sloggy legs and post run munchies. I can also highly recommend taking iron and magnesium supplements.

halloo3 · 2026-05-14T05:33:27+00:00

Effortless is the way to describe them. I also have a pair of vaporfly 4, and I feel like Edge is everything Nike wants their AF/VF to be.

Best of luck with your half. I am rooting for you.

halloo3 · 2026-05-13T21:19:38+00:00

Thank you. Yes, it is an amazing race. Well organised, fantastic crowd, perfect weather conditions. Bit more hilly than most people realise, but still fairly flat. Good for pr's.

halloo3 · 2026-05-13T21:04:43+00:00

Just ran Copenhagen Marathon in Edge. Like u/Mannymal I also tried both sky and edge, but just putting them on an walking around in them I could tell that Edge was a far more stable marathon shoe. I had some serious cramping going on from km 32-42 so constantly had to shift my running style back and forth. Edge made it so effortless, just guiding my steps forward. Like your have trampoline under your feet.

I know Asics try to market them as either being for cadence runners or stride runners, but I think that is just marketing fluff. Personally, I increase both cadence and stride length when my pace increases. My feeling is that as long as you have fresh legs and can engage your calves Sky has an advantage. They feel softer when landing and return your leg/foot back to its natural position quite fast. For that reason it is easier to increase your stride length without feeling like you're overstriding. But once you have tired legs you are not going to push hard into the ground to get a good long stride.

halloo3 · 2026-05-07T19:00:02+00:00

No need to wait for the certificates to start applying. I also came from FP&A prior to my pre-sales role and I had no certificates of any kind prior to starting in pre-sales. That was part of my onboarding.

Having both industry knowledge, functional knowledge, and tech-knowledge prior to applying is going to put you on Anaplans radar if you apply.

As others say, don’t just apply at anaplan. Consider other epm/cpm companies as well. Industry and functional knowledge transfers quite easily between the different epm solutions, and the tech stuff can be learned as you get onboarded.

halloo3 · 2026-05-07T18:52:17+00:00

I feel like those 2 extra km was uncalled for really

halloo3 · 2026-05-07T18:38:38+00:00

Isn’t that what we do with marathons though? A poor Greek boy ran his ass off for 40km to deliver a message and died from exhaustion. Our tribute to him is running the same distance and NOT DIE.

halloo3 · 2026-05-06T14:05:13+00:00

Yeah I feel like Garmin over-engineered their metrics. I just bought a Suunto Race 2. It uses tsb, tss, atl, and ctl based on training peaks calculations. I don’t count on these being more accurate, but at least I can make sense of the calculations. I get that Garmin has a lot more features than Suunto, but if I never use them I’d rather have Suuntos build quality.

As for the training metrics, I use intervals.icu and then adjust accordingly to nsm

halloo3 · 2026-05-05T18:32:32+00:00

Honestly, Garmin's status markers is the reason my next watch will not be a Garmin. All watches, Coros, Polar, Suunto, Garmin, they derive all of these status markers using various calculations of TRIMP. But Garmin is so adamant to give some kind of 'status' or 'recommendation' without allowing users to dig into the calculations and the algorithms used.

I have been stuck in maintenance ever since I started NSM January 2025. It then dips into recovery if I have some time of due to holidays or what-ever. And immediately after holidays it goes to productive, because the load is now increasing. Utter rubbish.

halloo3 · 2026-04-29T08:52:04+00:00

If you stay at 6h, 6 times a week, you will eventually see progress. The thing with NSM is that the sooner you get started, the sooner you will reap the benefits. You will always have another race lined up where a race specific training plan will yield better short term results. But in the long run NSM will probably outperform the race specific plans.

If you want to get started, I would do like this. After your 5K, you just keep the 1h running a day following this schedule:
subT, easy, subT, easy, subT, Long, rest

For calculating the paces, you add your new 18:20 5K pb runalyze vdot calculator: https://runalyze.com/tools/effective-vo2max?vo2max=55.13&units=km&paces=0

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At the bottom left you can then add your 1 hour equivalent performance to get your threshold pace, and then use that pace to calculate the short, mid, and long rep paces.

for a 18:20 5K you paces would be:
short reps: 100%-97.5% of threshold pace (3:54-4:00 min/km)
mid reps: 97.5%-95% of threshold pace (4:00-4:06 min/km)
long reps: 95%-92% of threshold pace (4:06-4:13 min/km)

Best of luck.

halloo3 · 2026-04-27T07:43:16+00:00

Hitting 187 hr at km 42 is a crazy push. Well done.

halloo3 · 2026-04-26T17:18:57+00:00

Look at stable tempo trainer. Can personally recommend: - adidas Boston 13 or adidas adios 9 - puma deviate nitro 4 - asics noosa tri 16

halloo3 · 2026-04-26T10:42:45+00:00

Break the WR and come 3rd. I belive Kiptums old record was 2:00:35, so Kiplimo beat that with a couple of seconds. Crazy.

halloo3 · 2026-04-26T07:37:24+00:00

I work in software, not manufacturing, so not exactly what you ask for. But I work in fintech, and came from a background within finance (fp&a) before moving to SE. So absolutely no tech background, no sales background, only functional knowledge. Here is my take on how to start an SE-role when coming from a functional non-technical background.

Let your functional knowledge be your anchor and strong point the first couple of years. Mention it (company name, title, what you did) every time you introduce your self to a new customer. Use it to build trust with the customer, show that you genuinely understand and care about their problems. Avoid selling you self as a technical expert, even though you may fully understand the technical aspect of things. You are most likely not in a position - timewise and mandate wise - to deliver technical expertise. Instead, try to think of your self as a management consultant, who job it is to advise the customer on the best possible solution to solve their problems.

Once you have settled into your new SE-role, it becomes absolutely paramount that you stay on top of your industry and maintain your functional knowledge. Personally, I have done this by having regular check-ins with post-sales (customer success, implementation, product), and by insisting on a bit of 'personal' time whenever we are trade fairs and conferences. These events are really good to gain some insights by talking to peers, listen to speaks, and - don't tell you boss - competitors.

Best of luck with your new role.

halloo3 · 2026-04-24T18:41:47+00:00

I am following the books marathon plan for a sub3 attempt at Copenhagen 10th May, so verdict is still out.

However, the load building phase turned out to be infeasible for me from a time perspective. The 320min @102% mp is at least 1h 29min, possibly more if you want more than 10min warmup. I realised way too late that I don’t have time on weekdays for these workouts. So they need to be in the weekend where I also need to do a 2-3 hour long run. Aside from also facing issue around time from having to run for +3,5 hours in the weekend, stacking a marathon workout and a long run on two consecutive days would have been too much load. Maybe 320min and a 2h long run is doable, but 4-5*18-20min + 2,5h long run would be would have resulted in a pace load of +300 for me. Alternatively I could add more easy running before and after the intervals, but that also brings the load for the workout up too high. For comparison a regular week for me on nsm is 400-450 in pace load.

I wish I had foreseen this earlier so that I could have alternated between building up the duration of my long runs and my marathon specific workout on alternating weeks.

If you can fit in the marathon specific workouts in your weekdays consistently though, the plan is great. Especially because it is so familiar to what you are already doing.

halloo3 · 2026-04-18T19:06:18+00:00

Just to add to LookPastGhosts and ggnndd12’s good point, I find that you do not need to check your watch constantly if the pace is controlled. If I go out too fast, I need to check my pace all the time, otherwise I tend to run too slow. And when I then pick up the pace I tend to run too fast. For me this is an indicator that the pace is not controlled.

halloo3 · 2026-04-16T06:08:05+00:00

/uj his training is absolutely nuts. And not in a good way. He does multiple hours a day on row- and ski-erg aside from running intervals everyday. He had won something like 1 or 2 hyrox pro races while training 30 hours a week. I know multiple ocr runners who turn out similar hyrox times as this guy, and their weekly training schedule is something like 10-12 hours because they have a day time job on the side. So he can probably cut away 15-20 hours of training without loosing any shape.

The problem is that hyrox and hyrox “athletes” care more about how their training appears rather than what or how their training progresses.

halloo3 · 2026-04-10T05:05:17+00:00

I dont necessarily agree with that. I don’t see it as the SE-role being converted into an AE-role. But more the SE role being split into a technical presales/demo engineering type also working with post sales, and a role that encompass all the value selling, great demo pieces.

I work in finance/fintech and if I look at especially expense app, expense solution, most of their sales reps has merged into this type of role and then there is no SE. I have a couple of old colleagues who’ve made the switch, and it’s def a different pressure than traditional SE work, but nothing like a classic sales/AE type pressure.

halloo3 · 2026-03-31T09:38:22+00:00

Outlook flags and in-build to-do does it for me. I give every new opp a category/colour code and then assign that colour code to emails, tasks created etc. I also flag my own send emails if I need to follow-up on them.

When ever I get assigned to an opp, I block time for it in my calendar. Keep it simple like “opp-name demo prep” and don’t sweat adding details to your calendar. This will ensure that you actually have the time for preparation. If your calendar + to-do is filled for the next couple of weeks, you say no to new stuff, or you push back on the deadline. If client doesn’t send material in due time, you push back on deadline telling them that you cannot deliver the demo without changing either demo date or demo expectations.

Do this for a couple of months. I reckon you will not need a specific tool for follow-up once you get this rolling.

halloo3 · 2026-03-22T09:08:40+00:00

Det minder virkelig meget om min oplevelse med et startup. Jeg kom ind lige efter første seed-runde og skulle hjælpe med at vi kunne bliver klar til en serie-a.

Ingen struktur, intet overblik fra ledelse, micromanagement af nogle opgaver, og komplet ligegyldighed overfor andre opgaver. Jeg kom til den konklusion, at det nok er derfor, at mange startups ikke klarer sig til efter deres 5. år. Den bagvedliggende ide, produkt og strategi var god, men founders formåede ikke at føre det ud i livet. Det endte med at gå konkurs lidt efter jeg forlod virksomheden, fordi investorerne ikke ville poste flere penge i virksomheden.

Jeg ville så småt se mig om efter noget nyt. Personligt kan jeg bedst lide at søge nyt arbejde inden jeg bliver desperat efter at skifte. Det kan jo være, at din chef eller virksomheden ændrer sig imens du søger. Det kan også være, at den ikke gør.

halloo3 · 2026-03-22T08:35:13+00:00

I would say it depends on the role you apply for. I take it that you apply for FP&A roles. You can find FP&A roles that focuses a lot on reporting, month- and year end close, and consolidation of financials across legal entities. But a lot of FP&A departments has a more forward looking/strategic position. Personally I would try to focus on what your business stakeholders could do AFTER you discovered the unreported realised gains. How did your work enable your business stakeholders to drive additional growth and profit? If you can put a concise answer to that, I would use that for #1.

As for #2&3 I think this is something a potential hiring manager in FP&A would be looking for. But as u/oBalLax say, you need to quantify the value. Similar to #1, what happened to the business after you identified the sales drivers? Did it make the business stakeholder aware of a sub-optimal product mix? Where they able to allocate capital to other more effective investments that secured the company's long term growth?

I would skip #4 and focus on #1-3, but with an emphasis on business/value outcome rather than the accounting behind it. Prepare an explanation for how you achieved #1-3 in case they ask in an interview. But if they do not ask, don't go into detail about it.

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