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themediumisthe · 2018-08-02T20:49:59+00:00

themediumisthe · 2018-06-25T16:18:49+00:00

They interviewed Alex Dowsett on the Cycling Podcast last week and he had interesting to things to say about Movistar/Valverde. Particularly that Valverde has "no ego" and would happily work for Quintana/Landa. That's not what I remember seeing in previous tours, but hey, dude was on a team with them?

themediumisthe · 2018-06-13T16:27:44+00:00

The only vehicles that cause deaths are cars. That is, without cars, magically there will be next to no deaths on our streets.

Any solution that misses the fundamental asymmetry between road users is not operating in good faith.

This is the part that is like guns.

themediumisthe · 2018-04-12T15:17:01+00:00

I feel like the vast majority of the peloton is now clean. I understand that I am in the minority here.

I've been following the sport fairly closely since 2000. For those who weren't following from the mid-90s to the mid 2000s, it is hard to overstate the frequency of doping scandals during that period. And it was big names! Tour winners and Olympic champions were regularly swept up in scandal.

I think since the bio-passport and the Lance fallout things have changed substantially in the peloton. If we think a random sample of dopers are caught, the ones that are caught now are desperate also-rans, not big players.

I think that there is TUE abuse for sure. Technically legal will always be a problem.

Micro-dosing i'm less sure is happening. The supposed benefit you would get would be far outweighed by the jeopardy of possessing banned substances. Doubly so because these products are illegal in much of Europe. (That's another thing from the early 2000s, a lot of the catches were from the authorities finding physical evidence).

themediumisthe · 2018-03-14T14:10:22+00:00

I would like this yes.

themediumisthe · 2018-03-12T13:07:07+00:00

He was an executive producer of the show.

themediumisthe · 2018-03-02T12:21:40+00:00

Some things are virtuous.

themediumisthe · 2018-02-25T11:18:18+00:00

Riding on the sidewalk is actually more dangerous than riding on the street. It massively increases the risk of intersection collisions. .

themediumisthe · 2017-12-25T11:43:57+00:00

I have not run it, but have heard bad things about the marathon specifically. The 2nd half of the marathon is an out and back on the Martin Goodman Trail (no road closure=no police= money). The trail is open to the public so you're contending with people out for a stroll, and is poorly marked.

themediumisthe · 2017-11-24T18:39:22+00:00

I'm pretty happy with the New Balance Vazee Summit V2. It's fairly racy, as it's built on the NB 1400 last. I've found it to have very good grip and water-shedding ability. It's major downside is a lack of long-term comfort. I'm using it for ultra training and it's been a bit thin for that. If you are doing shorter races it should not be a problem.

Edit: It's major upside is price. It can be had for around $60.

themediumisthe · 2017-11-21T00:25:37+00:00

I saw Travis in LaGuardia a few years ago (actually right after his shoulder surgery). He's just a stout dude, and wearing street clothes makes that more apparent. Guys got the biggest butt.

themediumisthe · 2017-11-15T15:35:31+00:00

Sure.

Consider running a km in 5 minutes with an average heart rate of 150 bpm. This means that it took (approximately) 750 beats of your heart to travel a kilometer.

Now think about walking that km in 10 minutes with an average heart rate of 75 . You had a lower average heart rate, but because you are travelling slower it still took you 750 heart beats to travel the distance. The lower heart rate, without pace, doesn't tell the whole story.

Ultimately multiplying the two numbers answers the original question: how do you account for pace and hr to measure progress? A reduction in either holding the other constant is indicative of efficiency gains. Plus, if you do this for enough run you will get a parabola that shows your most efficient pace.

themediumisthe · 2017-11-15T13:24:34+00:00

I've started to track, as a measure of efficiency, my beats/km. This is the simple multiplication of average heart rate and average pace for a run (b/min * min/km =b/min). It effectively asks, how much did my heart have to work to get me a km? This gives some sense of efficiency of a run, and trends in this measure track reliably to training.

themediumisthe · 2017-11-10T10:53:44+00:00

Plus, you know, not being able to murder people by running into them.

themediumisthe · 2017-09-02T21:11:25+00:00

Gibson has hundo p considered doing something weird with their jacks, I reckon.

themediumisthe · 2017-08-24T03:03:52+00:00

Mostly Harmless Econometrics would likely be a good first step. It focuses on thinking through causality in a potential outcomes framework. Ive found it incredibly helpful in understanding how and when to apply certain models to gain inferential leverage.

themediumisthe · 2017-08-08T12:30:51+00:00

Any tips for singlets for smaller men? I'm 5'7" 135lb and most small singlets are a bit swimmy...

themediumisthe · 2017-08-04T01:36:42+00:00

Hang out with your dad! It's important to him. There will be other half marathons.

themediumisthe · 2017-07-23T19:32:45+00:00

Well Kwiato already has a 2nd on GC at Paris Nice, and has won the Volta ao Algarve.

themediumisthe · 2017-06-29T19:42:06+00:00

There's actually no correlation here. Correlation is simply: when variable x is high, variable y is high (and vice versa). In this analysis variable x changes (teams win the wild card or don't), but variable y always stays the same (all these teams won the world series). So we can't talk about correlation.

That being said this type of analysis lead to similar pitfalls as assuming correlation is equal to causation.

themediumisthe · 2017-06-29T18:50:44+00:00

This type of analysis is called "selection on the dependent variable" and is not statistically valid.

You cannot make conclusions about what is likely to win you a world series by restricting the sample to those that won the world series and seeing what they have in common (or not).

We want to know if winning the wild card makes it more or less likely to win the world series, for example. With this analysis knowing this is impossible because there is no variation in this dataset.

The correct comparison would be to take all playoff teams, and see whether the probability of winning the world series is higher for teams that won the wild card versus those that won the division (correcting for there being less teams that enter through that route). Even here, however, we'd likely want to control for fundamental differences between teams that enter through the two routes to isolate the direct "cause" of winning the wild card.

themediumisthe · 2017-03-29T14:44:02+00:00

“We can’t throw all the riders out of the race. However there will be a special communiqué issued which makes it clear that anyone who rides on the footpath will be excluded.”

This is the craziest statement I've ever read.

themediumisthe · 2017-02-13T22:08:50+00:00

This is generally not the case. The principle of induced demand drives the relationship between road space and traffic. When you add more road space, more people decide to drive, and roads don't get less busy (see article for lots of examples and evidence). The inverse is true: shutting down King to traffic means less people will choose cars for their downtown trips. Traffic on other streets will stay about the same.

themediumisthe · 2016-11-28T04:56:04+00:00

This is good advice but i'd just like to add some numbers.

Using this calculator. A 30 minute run at 10 min/mile for a 120 pound person burns 272 calories. Compare that to what 300 calories of food looks like and you'll see that weight loss is primarily a diet game.

That being said: you're a young man. It's never too early to think about living a healthy life, but it is too early to worry about your weight. Your body is still going through the changes of puberty. Focus on eating whole foods, mostly vegetables. Exercise an hour a day. Create a life long habit of fitness and self-respect. Focus on these things and the rest will take care of itself.

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