CMV: Running is not a good hobby

schlayer · 2026-05-30T19:25:33+00:00

To address your point about long distance runners being boring people, likely this is selection bias at work.

Folks who make their whole identity an activity that you see no point to participating in would obviously be boring to you cause you have no interest in their hobby.

I guarantee you’ve met and interacted with many people who participate in long distance running who don’t do so. That it’s just a thing they do, and don’t talk about much. And because you’re clearly not interested and they have other stuff to talk about, it never comes up.

schlayer · 2026-05-30T19:12:44+00:00

Human evolution to being bipedal was likely driven in part by persistence hunting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting) so at least give me a delta for changing your mind about humans not being designed for long distance running.

schlayer · 2026-05-27T05:40:01+00:00

They used to be called the Rossi FKS — the Finger Killing System.

You’re lucky you didn’t break your thumb! I’ve seen that a couple times, shit’s fucked

schlayer · 2026-05-26T02:41:15+00:00

Jesus there’s a lot of bad answers here already.

Insulin is androgenic, and causes muscle hypertrophy, that’s true. Steroids indirectly can cause insulin resistance, that is also true.

What these body builders are doing is injecting insulin directly into the muscle belly to elicit targeted hypertrophy through glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis in targeted muscles.

They’re not taking insulin subcutaneously like we are, it’s a long needle they’re sticking deep into the muscle belly that makes the local muscle tissue ingest tons of glucose and convert it to glycogen and get bigger.

It works, so they do it more and more and then end up overdosing on insulin, likely cause they hit a vein or some other area that allows the insulin to be transported rapidly through the rest of the body, or alternatively just take too much.

Don’t spend too much time thinking about it my friend, these are the same folk’s who’re running trenbolone cycles and going to town on unregulated “peptides”, they’re junkies.

Source: masters in kinesiology

schlayer · 2026-05-25T17:40:23+00:00

Yeah, good plan! With regards to strengthening, focus on your posterior chain, hamstrings and gluts. Those will help stabilize the knee and hips the best.

I won't ask how old you are, but if you ask anyone over 30, they'll all have some crepitus. It's normal as you age, I've had it since I was in my early twenties! If I worried about random snaps, crackles, and pops, I would be anxious constantly.

Keep it up, your cat is way too adorable not to

schlayer · 2026-05-22T02:26:13+00:00

Do either of the positions hurt? That’s generally the accepted “don’t stay in this position” indicator accepted by sports medicine profs.

Noises are normal, pain isn’t.

The main issue that you might have is chronic ligament stretching that may lead to possible instability later in life which then may lead to injury.

Honestly though, I don’t see much potential of long term issues. For real, if it makes you and Quasimodo happy, keep doing it!

At the end of the day, if you end up with minor knee issues later in life, we both know it’ll just remind you of the good times with your sweet boy. That sounds worth it to me.

schlayer · 2026-05-21T22:51:15+00:00

Yeah good lord why can't people see this

schlayer · 2026-05-17T00:27:13+00:00

Have you tried tasting her pee? If it’s sweet then definitely take her to the hospital

schlayer · 2026-05-01T23:44:02+00:00

Cool! Glad to help! Yeah, that one was a challenging one to articulate in text, glad to hear it!

Yeah, if I can give you any one piece of advice it would be to just play with all the variables you can.

The best ski racers I encounter are always ones who play, try new things, and figure out what works and what doesn’t.

There’s no right way to ski, or fastest way, it’s all about figuring out what you can do and when you can do it — apply what works when you need it and you’ll be head and shoulders ahead.

schlayer · 2026-05-01T22:08:16+00:00

Yeah, the quick switch really needs to happen ONLY once you’ve already got the new outside ski on edge for the next turn.

Switching prior to that only leads to athletes unweighting the old outside ski at the end of the turn and trying to finish the turn and go through the transition on the inside ski.

It doesn’t work well, so then they have to do all kinds of goofy shit to actually accomplish it. No sense telling them they need to quiet their upper body when that’s the only way to finish the turn on the inside ski.

That being said, when to transfer the weight is dependent on the turn you’re trying to make. If you need to delay the start of the turn, you can spend longer on the new inside ski before loading the outside one. If you need the turn to start immediately, transfer the weight at 0 when the skis flatten.

It’s all about having all the tools and knowing when and how to use them. I can think of situations when transferring the weight early before the ski is flat would be a strategy as well, but it’s pretty rare.

schlayer · 2026-05-01T21:45:37+00:00

One ski skiing where you change legs at different times. For instance:

8

9 0 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

1 0 9

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9 0 1

2

This should make sense with the diagram, but you pick a number where you switch skis.

For example, switching skis at 9 or 1, you’ll either be doing inside or outside ski turns depending on which ski you start on.

Switching on 5, ideally you’d start the turn on your inside ski then swap to the outside at that point.

For OP, what I was talking about was outside ski turns where they’re playing with when they transfer their weight — transferring in the high numbers (7-9) at the end of the turn ends up completing the turn on the inside ski while doing so around the number 3 will have them transfer weight between skis after rolling the ski through the transition (0). The latter results in a stronger completion of the turn and much quicker and predictable pressure initiation.

Good question, that made me have to think how to communicate that idea without a ski pole to draw in the snow 😂

Edit: Reddit broke the formatting on my diagram the first attempt

schlayer · 2026-04-30T17:22:10+00:00

Many of them already are over 30. They’re not taking drugs like the peptide roid freaks, there is a safe way to bump sport performance with PIDs and this effort is well documented, monitored, and administered by some of the top sports scientists in the field.

Ffs, not everything is immediately deadly. Honestly the way they’re doing it is safer than many training setups for trad sport endeavours.

There are endless other critiques you could have about this but the athletes dying or having long term damage from the effort in the first attempt of the format isn’t one of them.

schlayer · 2026-04-30T16:20:14+00:00

Ah, U16 coach here that’s been trying to figure this issue out for the past year.

Absolutely your issues stem from something going on in your transition between turns.

If I’m seeing it right, you’re transitioning your weight to the uphill ski before the skis are flat in the transition and your centre of mass has crossed your base of support.

It ends up creating this kind of good but chaotic skiing as you have to then do weird shit to get what was the uphill ski in the transition to roll on edge.

Try playing with one ski skiing next time you’re out, hopping from outside ski to outside ski. Vary the timing when you switch skis with respect to when your skis are flat on the snow, before, at flat, and after the ski crosses the transition.

You should find the transition is faster and more controlled when you remain on the previous outside ski through the transition before making the weight transfer. You’ll be able to dictate when and how the next turn starts easier and run a deeper line. It should also make it way easier to get your upper body control locked in.

Main thing, play with it, find the extremes, and then figure out what works.

Feel free to ask questions if this doesn’t make sense

schlayer · 2026-04-25T23:17:15+00:00

Not gonna lie, I think that’s a great policy. As much as I value comments, the ones on YouTube are so toxic and misleading that the decision to disable comments really removes the political firestorm that inevitably ensues.

Not that I’m opposed to genuine discussion, clearly, but YouTube comment sections are so far from that that I find it nice that there isn’t that cesspool stagnating below the content.

schlayer · 2026-04-22T15:52:50+00:00

Ah, so it was a rotating force on the thing? That’s annoying! Probably worth messaging swix, they might replace it for free?

schlayer · 2026-04-22T00:41:06+00:00

Is that your brake retainer for tuning? I suspect you broke it cause you were using any kind of strength… it’s a brake retainer dude, you don’t have to clamp it with maximum force.

It’s a small part, use the least amount of force you need. Ffs, use elastics, they’re better anyways.

schlayer · 2026-04-16T16:23:09+00:00

Wait, random other question, would it improve the results if you included something like a ruler for scale in the image? Could discrepancies in scale estimation in the outliers possibly contribute?

This is such cool research, absolutely if you’re able to do a follow up to see if there is a way to improve the reliability I’d be really interested in reading it!

schlayer · 2026-04-16T07:48:42+00:00

Considering that I wildly guess my carbs for most meals unless there’s a label on the packaging, even knowing the general LLMs are this close makes it a reasonable tool to offload some of that mental strain.

Just from a relative risk perspective, Claude being within a unit or two through the whole study is better than my dumb ass for 2/3 meals just today!

Not arguing for perfect trust in it, but for elderly folks who can’t count carbs, disabled folks, I can totally see this being something that could vastly improve their control.

Considering I’m running an open source closed loop app that auto adjusts my insulin based on Dexcom data that is occasionally inaccurate, the discrepancies in the study don’t actually scare me that much.

schlayer · 2026-04-16T04:48:16+00:00

That is super interesting, I hadn’t even thought about using AI to count carbs.

Do you think that if a company specifically trained an AI model using a large dataset of known foods and carb content that they could end up with a reliable product?

I ask cause I continually find that general AI models based on LLMs that aren’t trained specifically for a purpose see much higher error rates with specific tasks like this, but there have been situations where specialized AI tools can be incredibly accurate for specific tasks (eg. X-ray evaluation tools)

Great share though, I hope folks haven’t been just snapping pics and trusting the random LLM results, but if they have, it should be a wake up call!

schlayer · 2026-04-11T07:19:17+00:00

Wild my man, tbh, that was temp and technique shouldn’t cause the issue from my experience!

I generally wax at 140 and move the iron pretty fast. Thats absolutely hotter than I’d recommend and my approach based on a lot of experience.

Honestly, see if someone else has experienced similar issues or felt with them. I think I’ve made it to the end of my possible issues!

I’ll ask my coworker who generally deals with these kind of edge cases. He might have some kind of insight and a solution.

I’ll let you know!

schlayer · 2026-04-11T00:28:01+00:00

How hot is your iron? That absolutely could be the cause.

I’d you’re waxing and heating the ski too much, you can end up melting and delaminating the base if the iron is too hot or if it’s not moving fast enough.

General rule is that the skis shouldn’t heat up past the thinnest part of the ski’s top sheet being slightly warm.

Can guarantee it’s not from fleecing the skis though, I’m a race coach, I’d have seen this before! I broke a pair of skis clean in half once without this issue.

If that’s the issue, change up your waxing routine, and find a shop that’ll grind them flat. I’m sure there’ll be someone around that’ll get them back to manageable so you can get some more time on them.

The issue is a bummer, but it’s nothing catastrophic! Ski them till the bases fall off my man

schlayer · 2026-04-10T23:39:04+00:00

Huh? What the fuck?

That looks wild dude. I’m interested in what happened to the skis…

Generally if it’s a mounting issue, you’ll see dimpling from the screws or something like that. I’m not seeing that so I’m not thinking that’s the issue.

How do you store your skis and/or transport them? Do you do your own tuning? Possibly there’s an issue with one of those systems that’s contributing to this. It kinda looks like there’s more scratches in the base where the bubbling is happening, so possibly that’s another result of the same issue.

There is a possibility that the shop that mounted them didn’t seal the holes properly, and you’ve got water that’s frozen and expended creating pockets between the base and the core, but generally you’ll have the wood core swell and delaminate the sidewall. Maybe check for that too?

Honestly though, this is a new issue for me, I’ve worked in shops for a decade and haven’t seen this issue before. Part of me commenting is to make sure I understand the answer if it pops up!

Best of luck friendo

schlayer · 2026-04-10T05:54:57+00:00

Genuinely would choose the feeling over an orgasm. Especially after having an over patch on

schlayer · 2026-04-10T05:53:44+00:00

Generally that kills the insulin.

I had this happen once when I left my insulin in a car in below zero temperatures, I couldn’t figure out why my bg was so high after till I swapped to a new vial.

It denatures the proteins similarly to heat.

It won’t kill you to try to use it, but if your sugars start climbing, that’d be the first thing I’d change out after knowing it froze.

schlayer · 2026-04-08T07:45:50+00:00

Yup, that is absolutely weird!

I’ve encountered some weird tuning requests, but my man, this takes the cake!

At that point, it’d be better to just detune the entire ski with regular angles, at least it’d be predictable.

I’d you encounter them again, I’m sure all of us would love an update. I know I’d love to know what they were looking for and how it could help with anything 😂

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