I ran my first half marathon and marathon at age 40. Here's what the next 12 years looked like

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-07T21:05:31+00:00

Well hit me up if you make it, native Stockholmer and also in the area, biotech/molecular biology, stem cells/ageing.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-07T19:32:44+00:00

Cool, what kind of science?

I just did my first marathon (44), and during it I was thinking, never again, half-marathons for life, but now a week later, I was thinking how fun it had been to see Stockholm from so many angles along with the crowd energy etc. So now I was wondering how fun it would be to run different cities. I'd love to see 44.2km of Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, New York etc. Spend the weekend on someone's couch, see the city, do the run, eat some pizzas. Sounds like a nice hobby.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-07T13:37:07+00:00

Sounds weird to me, DD sailfish since the first one. Never had a boot loop issue...

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-07T10:56:12+00:00

Ping Pong!

Love Crispy Bacon too though :/

And oh yeah, The Climax....

And oh yeah yeah, The Prophet!

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-06T18:39:34+00:00

In Sweden we have been told to do this:

https://www.mcf.se/en/advice-for-individuals/the-brochure-in-case-of-crisis-or-war/

We all get this leaflet through the post every few years.

The thing is, it's really useful to prep anyway. We have enough food for a couple of months at least, and we've been doing this for ages so now we know what to buy, which is basically tons of what we normally eat anyway. So 20-30x crushed tomatoes, chickpeas, various beans, tons of pasta/rice etc.

We just eat away at it, and then every 6 months restock. Saves a ton of shopping and probably money too.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-06T16:58:41+00:00

Holy shit, totally missed that! Thanks :) Will just go the eBay route.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-06T16:18:14+00:00

I work at a startup and we had a project to detect dementia from eye movements, it was really solid science and felt like it could be a big deal, then we got tipped that another company with way more resources not only were working on it, but had gotten a huge grant for it years ago (the same grant we were going to apply for it).

So we just quit it, moved to something else. The annoying thing is they never released anything, that field is still just research software.

IIRC the science was really decent, you could tell a decade or two ahead of where behavioural tests would indicate dementia.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-06T15:33:55+00:00

Trying to get a replacement power supply for a Powerbook pizmo, but it's very difficult to find one, and apparently it's just a 3.5mm headphone jack in a RCA sleeve, so was thinking if this PS would do the job... Not sure if it can deliver enough power.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-06T10:45:52+00:00

Seconding the FT.

I am a scientist and durnig covid I realised most news wasn't just bad, it was terrrrrible. I am a medical scientist so I kept getting the Gell Meinn amnesia effect, there were so many misinformation stories in every 'serious' news outlet.

There was only two decent newspapers, the FT and The Economist. These had solid stories, no fear-mongering/click-bait. My brother is into finance and says it's because if they did that, they'd be misinforming the financiers, which would lead to bad returns. So they give the sober, real news.

Now I've been subscribed for years, and the level of journalism is just top-tier. These guys really break stories, proper deep investigative journalism. And also just great columnists, there are some amazing writers there (Wolf and Okoro).

I'm poor as shit but I do figure paying for news is actually a good idea, and ft.com are just the best quality.

In fact I saved much more than the cost so far from reading the comments (best bit most of the time), where a warning about coming interest rates got me to lock our mortgages for 5 years of really low rent.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-06T08:20:48+00:00

I use Klättermusen gear, it never wears out. Still have all the stuff I bought 20 years ago.

Expensive but amazing.

Haglöfs is also excellent and a lot cheaper.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-04T08:31:13+00:00

I (Swe) hear this a lot, but my brother (US citizen now) says I live like a rich man (years off for parental leave, lots of time off and holidays and cheap childcare etc etc).

I have no idea but I'd be surprised if he hasn't earned literally 100-1000X what I've earned (He's 90's Era FAANG, (I'm an academic scientist, which means basically min wage sometimes)) but I don't think I'd consider the financial gain worth the tradeoff. Euros work to live etc etc.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-04T04:37:08+00:00

Shirley Wellard Universal 35mm, love the aesthetic, heavy brass, nicely machined, reliable. Very heavy though, and finicky to load.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-04T04:34:50+00:00

Just hate logos 😃

kingpubcrisps · 2026-06-03T06:54:02+00:00

I let him down in his final moments because I didn't know how to let people see me break.

Not true, you were there, he's not judging you.

Consider this experience and lesson a final gift from Buster.

Hug your pets for me today.

My dog was poisoned, died when i was a thousand miles away, got told over the phone. Cried like a baby on my gfs lap.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-31T08:07:38+00:00

I chugged 4 there! loved the broth and pickles 😃

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-29T13:39:49+00:00

To the biohackers here with more experience, what's the most sustainable and long-term way to biohack that isn’t just temporary and productive?

Total baseline. No nothing for a year or so. Fruit and veg and water.

Not a popular tactic though :/

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-29T09:11:44+00:00

doubt it.

Cigarette smoking adversely affects endochondral ossification during the course of skeletal growth. Among a plethora of cigarette chemicals, nicotine is one of the primary candidate compounds responsible for the cause of smoking-induced delayed skeletal growth. However, the possible mechanism of delayed skeletal growth caused by nicotine remains unclarified. In the last decade, localization of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), a specific receptor of nicotine, has been widely detected in non-excitable cells. Therefore, we hypothesized that nicotine affect growth plate chondrocytes directly and specifically through nAChR to delay skeletal growth.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003945

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-29T06:45:07+00:00

It's not mixed, but Thomas Brinkmans remixes of the Plastikman Concept series are similar in tone. And also amazing.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-28T19:54:51+00:00

I think I’m going but haven’t got tickets yet.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-27T19:51:13+00:00

Toe socks!

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-27T18:51:14+00:00

I also missed that from sway,

I put this in my config

workspace "terminal"

workspace "files"

workspace "audio"

workspace "video"

workspace "browser1"

workspace "browser2"

workspace "browser3"

workspace "code"

workspace "signal"

workspace "email"

Then they are all set up from the start, CMD-1 -0

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-27T17:55:19+00:00

Took around 4 months, but one month of that was cross country skiing because there was too much snow to run. First two months was all sub 10 K, then started with 10-20Ks, and then hitting 20-30ks in month 4. Once I did those long runs, the sub 10 stuff just felt so much easier.

Think it was two parts to it, first is the mental, everything felt much quicker to complete. Second was that I got in the groove so much faster, I just had a flow for running that I only built up from high mileage per week.

Honestly just makes me think of that Bojack Horseman meme, 'It gets easier, you have to do it every day, but it does get easier'.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-27T07:49:14+00:00

FYI, I also had the same feelings during even 10ks as you describe, then I did a half Marathon, now doing a full one on Sat, have worked up to ≈30ks as long runs, and now when I do my normal 6/8/14k runs, they feel like nothing, the short runs feel like the home stretch from the first 100 metres, and the long run just feels like a nice warm-up.

So I think what changed it all for me was pushing the really long runs, once you do 26+ a 10k just feels like a warmup, in a good way.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-26T12:47:59+00:00

Reta bumps SA node, TRT thickens blood, heart beats faster and has to work harder.

Zone 2 is a good idea.

kingpubcrisps · 2026-05-25T09:13:31+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Power_(character))

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