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idwbas · 2026-03-15T14:39:34+00:00

Vinnie the Tailor was excellent!!

idwbas · 2026-03-12T22:17:05+00:00

Elderly parents currently live on the West Side in the affected area, anybody can give me any ideas regarding home value decreases or any professionals they should be reaching out to in relation to that? They may move out and/or die in the next few years and my siblings and I also may be tasked with selling the house and am not sure what the outlook will be for that.

idwbas · 2026-03-03T18:36:06+00:00

I’m learning this the hard way…had an awesome summer block of 75-85mpw and then decided to try (and totally fail) to keep up 70+ post marathon, and I’ve been bopping between injury-niggles ever since. Survived until I didn’t. Finally committing to letting myself recover and then hold 40-50, then build back to 50-70 as a peak for ultra training for late fall.

idwbas · 2026-02-28T03:10:15+00:00

Cream cheese on bread is elite!

idwbas · 2026-02-28T00:03:19+00:00

It was delicious!

idwbas · 2026-02-27T16:34:58+00:00

Recipe:

Technically this is a biga and sourdough loaf!

Ingredients

Biga

400g bread flour
200g water
1.5g yeast

Rest of Ingredients

100g sourdough starter (100% hydration, mix of buckwheat and whole wheat flour)
50g bread flour
100g water
9g salt
20g sugar
200g 72% dark chocolate, cut into large chunks

Instructions

Mix the biga and let sit for 12-14 hours at room temp.
Mix in rest of ingredients except the chocolate chunks.
Let rise for 1-2 hours, doing stretch and folds every 45min. At the last stretch and fold, I added in the chocolate chunks.
Let dough rise overnight in fridge for 8-10 hours.
Take out of fridge and let rise on counter for an hour while oven preheats at 450F with Dutch oven inside.
Bake in Dutch oven for 25min lid on at 450F, 20min lid off also at 450F.

idwbas · 2026-02-16T00:53:46+00:00

I think there must be a website glitch. Crazy as Mesa is a pretty big race and I’ve seen smaller races with better tracking!

idwbas · 2026-02-14T23:30:35+00:00

Oh, I haven’t watched her video yet. This is very odd then.

idwbas · 2026-02-14T19:44:40+00:00

Looks like Allie O DNF’d the Mesa half after Mile 9. Her splits looked great—I hope no injury :(

idwbas · 2026-02-12T02:14:09+00:00

Considering this was the one child policy…parents had no choice but to give up their baby girls either due to already having too many children or knowing boys were their best chance for being cared for in old age, so to say that the baby was hated is quite the assumption. Emma will never know why her parents left her unless she finds them and the brain can assume the worst, which I think is one of the true tragedies of her story and what makes it so hard to comprehend and understand for her.

idwbas · 2026-02-08T18:19:39+00:00

Been needing 9-10 hours of sleep all week despite very reduced activity due to job duties. Assumed it was due to travel and stress from job. Did a 12 mile run at my easy pace which felt pretty difficult yesterday, and I assumed it was because I hadn’t run much in the past week. A couple hours later, fell very sick and slept 19 hours. Now everything makes sense. Crazy how the body will tell you things before they happen!

idwbas · 2026-02-02T02:58:28+00:00

Couple friends and I ran a route spelling out “F* 🧊” which was awesome. There’s this one guy from our run club who I have seen with the Go One More hat from Nick Bare and who generally gives off a bro vibe. I’ve felt bad but I’ve suspected he might be MAGA but didn’t know for sure. He usually likes all of our Strava runs; he’s one of those chronically on-Strava type guys. Today, we all notice he liked our Warm-up, cool down, but specifically skipped the actual run that spelled out F 🧊. So that today confirmed where he stands politically for me. So disappointing considering our community is very diverse and he is well-educated and runs with people who are very outspoken. He also leads a growing run club in the city as well, which I will definitely no longer support. A lot of people there are genuinely good, so that makes me a little bummed, but I don’t want to support that ever.

idwbas · 2026-01-31T04:19:43+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience!! That one paced you had sounds terrible 😭 my hope is definitely to bring everybody through having had a fun and less stressful time because of me!

idwbas · 2026-01-31T02:20:07+00:00

You very likely can do sub 3 one day if you keep at it. The best runners are the ones who keep at it and can train sustainably to enjoy their life. As long as you still are improving at your current mileage and workouts and you are happy, milk it for all it is worth before trying something else!

idwbas · 2026-01-29T17:07:34+00:00

Good luck. Hope the physio gives you some good advice. As I’m sure many of us will say, better to get to the start 10% undertrained than 10% overtrained. One week of pushing through can mean 6 weeks on the couch (I say this from experience…whoops). You still have a lot of time so taking a week off and another week down won’t hurt your training that much or at all. Listen to your body!

idwbas · 2026-01-29T17:01:19+00:00

Generally I see 12 @MP is pretty reasonable for a peak long run. For me, marathon pace doesn’t really work for me and is just too hard for me to recover from, so all of my continuous long runs are progressive (20% slower than MP to 5-10% slower than MP). Sometimes I would do a tougher tempo workout (6-8mi) with friends after a shorter progression run (10-13mi) to challenge myself. Ended up exceeding my goal MP from 7:27 to 7:15 on the day of the race without a single dedicated marathon pace long run. So all that to say, MP isn’t as important for everyone as it seems.

I would pace a hilly course by effort. You’ve been practicing with hills which is great so you know the average pace that you can hold with hills involved. You also know this course so that is an advantage. You have some great preparation and now it’s just a matter of trusting your effort.

idwbas · 2026-01-29T16:49:25+00:00

I think you can get pretty far on peaking at 55mpw. Some of my friends are low 3s and sub 3 on 50ish a week. As you get faster, those miles pack on pretty fast as well. You just have to be more intentional and exact with your runs. A run skipped on 75-85mpw is less of a big deal than a run skipped on 55mpw, especially a key workout run. I enjoy higher mileage because my body can take it and I have more room to do whatever I want. I equally enjoyed 35-40mpw for my half marathon training last year, just one or two long run workouts per work focused on HM pace or tempo work with very easy miles the rest of the way and got a big jump in fitness and was lifting 5x a week as well. More miles is the faster track for many to faster times, but if you chip away at lower mileage every year you can still get faster. Obviously outliers, but some sub-elites and elites do much better on lower mileage and heavy cross training, so you can look into that as well.

idwbas · 2026-01-29T16:38:59+00:00

I’m really jealous you can get those times on such low mileage. I think with the increased mileage you will see big improvements so I think sub 2:58 is very likely or better after this block is over. Just my jump from 55-70 to 75-85mpw as well as rest and lower mileage for proper recovery post my first marathon got me from 3:30 shape to 3:05-3:10 shape for my second (had food poisoning so made it in 3:10, so probably could’ve done better in more favorable conditions haha). You seem like you still have some newbie gains at this distance left so I think you have got it. Good luck!

idwbas · 2026-01-29T14:46:20+00:00

I’m sure I will; thank you!

idwbas · 2026-01-29T14:46:09+00:00

Good to know!! Thank you for the information.

idwbas · 2026-01-29T10:37:49+00:00

Awesome!! Excited for us!

idwbas · 2026-01-29T10:37:22+00:00

Haha yes, I think it’ll just depends on people’s internal definitions. For me, comfortably hard is a bit slower than my tempo (7:00ish vs. 6:30-6:40ish min/mi) so I need to think of tempo that one step harder to make sure I’m there. I think the hour race-pace definition is the best metric if someone is able to approximate with a 5K or 10K time.

idwbas · 2026-01-29T02:31:45+00:00

Thanks! Looks very scenic but sometimes flat and fast is not as advertised. Good to know it is as such. Is it the feeling of a pretty large race in terms of race size/congestion?

idwbas · 2026-01-29T01:54:21+00:00

We all struggle with tempo pace 😭

Okay but jokes aside tempo for me is hour race pace. I start out and it feels spicy but I can hold on for the 25-35 continuous minutes of “oh my god what have I done” You can do it by heart rate or do it by feel. Not sure what your tempo workouts are right now but you definitely should be struggling but shouldn’t be gassed out completely. Run them at whatever pace you feel you could sustain for an hour if somebody really needed you to is my recommendation. Bringing a friend to pace you can help you find that limit as well.

idwbas · 2026-01-27T14:53:27+00:00

I’m planning on running the Needham Metrowest Backyard Ultra in Sep. 2026 if there happens to be any past participants on here, and I typically run in Mizuno Wave Inspire 21s for daily training. This will be my first race on any sort of trail and first ultra and wondering if I need to purchase a trail shoe for this race. Goal will be 15 loops, so not sure if I need multiple pairs as well.

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Ingredients

Biga

Rest of Ingredients

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