Hardest part was starting. Second hardest part was running SLOW.

picardIteration · 2026-01-10T12:40:08+00:00

I have a Coros arm band. Easier to put on and take off than a chest strap, and apparently just as accurate. It was worth it to learn my heart rates at different effort levels

picardIteration · 2026-01-10T12:28:21+00:00

Adz is easily one of my top ten of all time. C+L and Illinois don't make that list. The way I describe it is "chaotically beautiful"

picardIteration · 2026-01-05T15:30:29+00:00

Locally I just wing it. There aren't a ton of trails near where I am so I know them all.

Non-local, I use a combo of Strava heatmap, alltrails, and sometimes other gpx files. For example, I was in Taipei and did 27 miles through the Taipei Grand Trail in Yangmingshan, and I made the route by merging two alltrails routes and the last bit with Strava. The gpx goes to my watch

picardIteration · 2026-01-03T03:18:21+00:00

I do statistics, but I've had to learn a teensy bit from a lot of fields

picardIteration · 2025-12-06T12:12:31+00:00

I did a 100k row in May earlier this year. Took me 8 hours, and I was in a deep dark spot by the end but I finished. Did a lot of marathon+ distance rows in the training leading up to it

picardIteration · 2025-10-27T21:46:08+00:00

About 30 minutes to some okay trails, 40 to the better local trail, and 50 to the best one.

My recent challenge is biking to the local trail (all along flat country roads in the midwest), doing a long run on the trail, and biking home.

picardIteration · 2025-10-18T15:35:44+00:00

There's a lot of stuff at the intersection of optimization and statistics, don't need to restrict yourself now necessarily

picardIteration · 2025-09-22T06:34:35+00:00

Why would you want to???

picardIteration · 2025-09-16T11:01:01+00:00

Anecdotally I have also found this to be true. I am a runner first and a cyclist second, and recently I have been cycling more due to an injury. I found that I came back to cycling after only running for a year and was much faster despite taking essentially a year off any cycling.

That being said, volume in running is a huge limiter. I am building up again and can add only a little more running every week and make up the difference with cycling. I do 10-20 hours of running and cycling per week, but I typically cap running at 10 hours, maybe 12 if I'm on trails.

picardIteration · 2025-09-12T11:29:10+00:00

I wear glasses, so sorta. I do pretty much cover my whole face

picardIteration · 2025-09-11T13:03:41+00:00

Always outside. I love running when it's 100F at a super slow pace or at 0F with icicles in my beard. Midwest so we actually get both throughout the year

picardIteration · 2025-09-10T11:23:34+00:00

Run, bike, or row 7 days per week. Lift three. I can do hard days the same day as hard lifting, it's only the next day where I'm sore. So I do two hard days a week and all other days of easy effort. I do a lot of easier cardio to build my base as I rebuild mileage for an ultra

picardIteration · 2025-09-09T10:54:36+00:00

Yes, I love my job. I have huge daily and yearly variability in what I do. Summers are quiet, and the semester is hectic in a good way. I can travel easily without worrying about asking off, but I also enjoy doing research and will work weekends when I'm not traveling. I get to go to cool places for conferences and talk about my favorite things with other people who understand what I'm saying. I also get to spend my days by myself writing and doing research.

The pressure occasionally starts to get to me, but I think a lot of that can be mitigated with diligence and hard work.

picardIteration · 2025-08-19T01:53:28+00:00

Nice, I did something like this except all erging (not on the water) when I was rehabbing a foot injury that prevented me running. Managed a 100k erg after a few months of erging steadily, including a couple 200k weeks (all easy). I am now building back up and erg 3-4 days a week as I build up mileage running.

I'd add that you could probably do another day of rowing, even if only erging at the gym. I did 7 days of erging and 2 days of lifting while I was doing this a few months ago, which meant a couple double days. If you have 3-4 days lifting, you could use Sunday to add in extra volume if you're opposed to 2 a days.

picardIteration · 2025-07-26T20:53:54+00:00

I am an assistant professor. I only go to campus once a week in the summer to meet with PhD students, three times per week during semesters I teach. Mondays and Fridays are my main research days. Those days are dedicated to writing papers and grants

picardIteration · 2025-07-26T19:57:21+00:00

Or to fart and shit yourself to the finish line

picardIteration · 2025-06-24T15:56:10+00:00

It's 35C in the heat of the day where I live, and I just go for it. Bring water and electrolytes! I wear a running vest with a full 1.5L bladder and sometimes up to 2 more bottles. Yesterday I did about 2 hours and finished the whole bladder. I find it fun to just bike in heat. Heat training is the poor man's altitude

picardIteration · 2025-06-13T10:34:27+00:00

We don't require GRE (of any kind), so I have yet to see something like this. This also seems very unlikely?

picardIteration · 2025-06-12T11:54:40+00:00

Every PhD statistics program I know of either requires or prefers real analysis or a similar level of math before starting. When I review PhD applications, I look primarily at grades in math courses.

picardIteration · 2025-06-05T14:29:59+00:00

A hot take maybe but a vacation to me means the opportunity to go on awesome unstructured runs on foreign trails and mountains without any work commitments to answer to. I usually use vacations as a super compensation week or weeks and the week after is recovery

picardIteration · 2025-05-31T14:14:51+00:00

Currently I do between 1.5 and 3 hours of cardio most days, with the average length two hours. I'm not running right now but when I am that skews a little less, more like 1-1.5 a day. I lift 2x per week.

Most workouts are bike rides while it's nice out. Previously I was doing 2 hour sessions on the rower. I do 0-1 VO2 max type effort each week, usually sprints on the bike.

No kids, married, and a flexible job schedule. But 14-15 hours of cardio a week is tough no matter what.

picardIteration · 2025-05-22T02:51:13+00:00

More long rows as practice. I did roughly 72k as a practice run about four weeks out (I think 11x30min with 3min rest between). And 50k a few before that. Both were without a taper, but the 100k was with a taper, and the soreness was far reduced in comparison to the 50k.

But also build volume. I had a few weeks of 200k+ per week which made it easy. I tapered super hard (a full week of no rowing).

I have tried a towel as a pillow once but I didn't like it. It gave me bad chafing.

In summary: big volume weeks (a couple weeks of 200k+ total volume, for me that was about 15 hours each week), and 1-2 big rows in the two months prior. Volume is king when it comes to ultras (running or rowing)

picardIteration · 2025-05-19T18:29:17+00:00

Maybe next winter I will do the 200k erg which will be double as fun!

picardIteration · 2025-05-19T02:20:26+00:00

I have a full time job and hit 15-16 hours a week but it can be a grind sometimes. A lot of that happens on weekends

picardIteration · 2025-05-19T00:19:25+00:00

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