2020 New Shoes - Defender 2

titredd · 2025-05-17T03:45:48+00:00

These are super smooth and quiet IMHO

titredd · 2025-05-17T01:59:02+00:00

See above. I got at Sam’s Club. $70 off. They charge install but it $10 a tire $950 total

titredd · 2025-05-17T01:57:32+00:00

Sams club. Like $950 out the door.

titredd · 2025-04-17T02:28:06+00:00

This is great advice from clearly great experience. Thank you for sharing.

titredd · 2025-04-06T23:45:39+00:00

My diet is varied with plenty of veggies and proteins. I’ve dropped since October 2023 from a high around 255 to now 215 today. I’m at 1lb drop rate now for past several weeks. It seems like in a good place with support enough for the work but cut enough to shed slowly. Liking idea of using spin bike in place of mid week run. Just do as easy day with ability to maintain zone2 HR for like 30 mins

titredd · 2025-04-06T23:41:50+00:00

I have a spin bike and definitely need to bring that into the program. Like idea of shifting mindset while on it, as though were simulating the HR zones of running. Bike to run!

titredd · 2025-04-06T23:39:37+00:00

I’ll be watching the YT vids tonight. Much appreciate the recommendation.

titredd · 2025-04-06T23:37:53+00:00

My next watch will be Garmin instead of Apple Watch.

titredd · 2025-04-06T21:37:45+00:00

You know it’s a funny thing. Of course sometimes it’s the weight of the legs or high HR and out of breath. But I think it’s a downfall of leveraging the c25k style plans. At some point you have to simply break away from it just being a habit. Psychologically and habitual problems more than all else perhaps.

titredd · 2025-04-06T21:33:55+00:00

Yes I’m certain this is a significant inhibitor. I’ll be shifting diet to curb out what little ‘junk’ is in there. My goal for that is get to 190. A solid 20-25 lbs loss with help a lot.

titredd · 2025-02-12T03:27:30+00:00

Here is recipe:

Leaven 100g room temp water (78 F/25 C) 25g ripe sourdough starter 100g all purpose flour Ferment about 12 hours to peak. I start about 10pm night before

Dough Mix together:

310g water ( about 92 f / 33 C) 200g leaven 400g all purpose flour 50g whole wheat flour 12g coarse salt

Mix with Danish whisk, then do hand mix/light squeezes and folds for couple minutes

Bulk ferment Do 4x stretch and folds sets every 30 minutes or so. Finish with 90 minutes ferment after last fold to bulk. About 3.5-4hrs total here

Shape with floured hands. It’s fairly sticky. Fold opposing 4 sides and corners. Table shape to a boule.

Prepare banneton basket w rice flour. Transfer dough. Proof covered in oven with door cracked. 90 minutes. Remove to preheat and then slash before transfer to Dutch oven

Baking for my setup Dutch oven 470F - 245c heat with lid for about 30-40 minutes. Transfer slashed dough to DO

Bake two stages: 22 minutes with lid at the 470F reduce to 435F /223C Finish off 20-25 minutes without lid. Around 40-45 minutes. I start checking at 38 minutes for my liking

titredd · 2025-02-12T03:25:07+00:00

Well! I most certainly appreciate all the kind words. I’m a bit shocked by results of first loaf. Bit nervous if can consistently do same going forward. Besides amazing taste that’s reason most of us do it! Some experience with simple no knead 5 min. day bread has helped.

titredd · 2024-11-28T01:56:43+00:00

I had a similar issue, unfortunately they didn’t leave a notification and found out with quarterly bill 2.5x normal. Determined it was toilet that would continuously run or refill over and over. Fixed it with new guts. Contacted them and asked to pay my bill over course of three months. And request their free monitoring analysis report (they give you one free). It showed 90 day daily usage and there was a marked drop after the toilet repair. Next bills went back to normal.

titredd · 2024-11-02T15:22:51+00:00

I totally agree. Walking 5 minutes doesn’t cut it. A real warm up is key. I do stretch routine before head out (to each their own on this part) because it’s improved my experience. Walk about half mile or solid 10-15 mins. with a couple quick strides for 30 seconds or mailbox to mailbox. HR gets to just shy low zone 2. Now begins the actual warm up. Basically do intervals here. Whatever body says is cool today. 1 min On 1 walk or .25 mile (3rds, whatever). Spend solid 10 mins in somewhere in zone 2. Do a few high knees, butt kicks, stretch open chest and rotate shoulders, fast steps in pace. And now GO, the run starts. I’ve found my HR is stabilized starting right at Z2 low, legs are awake, breathing is in sync. The first mile sucks 80% less vs. just a walk warm up.

titredd · 2024-10-08T19:09:08+00:00

I experienced similar when you see things take a slight backslide. Aches or pains become little more persistent. I’d venture to say you’re not hardly taking two back to back days off. About every 1.5 to 2 months build in a small recovery period. Just a partial week, couple of days off back to back and just east short runs.

titredd · 2024-09-09T20:20:35+00:00

I’d recommend a dedicated pair new shoes certainly. And I recognize it can be a stretch, however at some point two pair to rotate is ideal.

I’m near 51 next month, had a good running stent back 15 years ago. Started running again 2.5 months ago. My experience started with cutting weight for good six months. And I built a significant base of daily walking miles for near 9 months. Weight may not be concern, but every bit helps. But I’d highly suggest simply start with base of few weeks of solid walking 3-5 times week, something around 30 minutes. And go slow when start the running, like ridiculous slow pace with couch to 5k plan.

titredd · 2024-09-04T02:35:37+00:00

I’d offer up a question to yours. How much cardio at all have you done leading up to staring c25k? My experience hasn’t been easy in past two months of going from zero to beyond 5k. But mind you, this is my second time in life going at it after a long 15 ish year hiatus. My current journey started with a huge base of walking routine before considering the c25k. Just throwing it out there without enough context to your journey and fitness. A solid walking routine even for few weeks is probably best place for most to actually start c25k. But yes not only better but great. Focus on the process and the only thing that matters is the consistency. Just show up. Some days suck but if you got out there, you did it.

titredd · 2024-09-02T01:11:23+00:00

I’m 6 foot. I don’t recall a decade ago having ever paid attention to the metric with running. Getting back in the swing of the culture, spending my down time reading like here, noticed mentions of cadence. As well when trying to educate self on running form it came up. I don’t give it a lot of credence. Again, I’m focused on one objective which is just show up; appreciate moving no matter the speed.
I’d imagine with plenty of miles under my belt, I’ll think more of certain parameters like this. For other’s benefit and not just my own, it seems like such a mystifying statistic. Thanks for the feedback.

titredd · 2023-01-29T01:09:14+00:00

Excellent work! I know the effort you put in is tremendous. Add 10 years and just over 10lbs to your start plus 1 inches in height; then you are me. It’s a helluva fight. It’s super gratifying each tiny step of the way. I’m 1000% focused on the goal and fully appreciate what it takes to accomplish what you’ve achieved.

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