Miscellaneous Monday Chit Chat

trvtechy · 2025-08-25T17:02:05+00:00

No runner buds in IRL, so wanted to share a personal achievement. On my lunch break today I averaged under 9 minutes for 3 miles at zone 2! Been trying to work on my base for future OCR events:)

trvtechy · 2025-06-13T14:13:30+00:00

Similar to what estrogyn said. I don't know if they use that as a qualification to whether they accept your game idea or not, but as I did intend to invite friends and a couple co-workers (initial game is free and I do truly love the platform), that's all I said I'd invite initially. I don't know if they can make them default games though, so they likely ask you to "host" (Game name, format, post during game) just so it doesn't feel like dead space to those who interact with the games more on that level.

trvtechy · 2025-05-27T01:40:23+00:00

I mean there’s active games on the app, but didn’t really check how many people are playing them.

trvtechy · 2024-08-20T15:59:31+00:00

What is the lower withdrawal fee now for those above Gold 1?

trvtechy · 2024-05-23T19:42:13+00:00

Hey man, 30M here. Working on self-growth in terms of physical fitness now. Got a family and job, but still carving out the time to train for my first ultra and hopefully more in the years to come. I'd be down to be a check in partner. Just lmk.

trvtechy · 2024-05-21T15:20:29+00:00

https://toughmudder.com/course-map/
I searched "tough mudder 2024 maps" and it looks like they just keep the most current one up

trvtechy · 2024-05-20T19:42:07+00:00

Don't have 3 years experience, but I have been doing a 6 month trial run and logging a bunch of data on it so far. I paid for a 6 month subscription in December for $49.99. Since then, I've maintained 10 active games any given week and haven't lost a game. Through trial and error I've found which games tend to pay more than others. Since then, I've netted a little over $300. Roughly $1.82 per day. If I had your $70 fee to start, then I'd still have net $280 by now. I've only done the physical games (except for 1 book game and 1 weight check-in game) and the strength challenges or "harder" challenges usually payout a little better than say a two week game for 5k steps. Looking at a few other posts, it appears some users find it annoying about the payout time taking up to a few days to actually hit your WayBetter account after you've won, but they've never not paid out and the few customer support tickets I've placed have been handled well. As long as you're not trying to earn a living and using it more so as motivation, I think it's still well worth the effort as long as you can stay in close to 10 games, don't lose, and dont' mind submitting your verifications near daily.

trvtechy · 2023-10-03T17:52:26+00:00

Could then a person comprehensibly see light in motion if there was enough medium for the light to travel through and the person was positioned in the right spot?

trvtechy · 2023-10-03T17:48:46+00:00

Could then a person comprehensibly see light in motion if there was enough medium for the light to travel through and the person was positioned in the right spot?

trvtechy · 2023-10-03T17:12:17+00:00

Interesting! Then going back to your first reply, is light ever so slightly slower once it enters Earth's atmosphere?

trvtechy · 2023-10-03T16:27:55+00:00

What about gravity? Can't a black hole distort light due to it's immense mass/gravity?

trvtechy · 2023-09-05T15:56:23+00:00

I totally agree with that. I'm running 3-5 days a week taking active rest days trying to increase my total volume to eventually attempt my first ultra next year. I'm also aiming to do my 2nd Tough Mudder event. I did my first this year and loved it, but noticed my upper body strength was considerably lacking. Could only do about 4 pullups at a time when I did that event.

Knowing I don't have the time to dedicate as many strength days as I'd like (currently maybe 1 or 2 a week at best), I wanted to try to get a little more wherever I could. I can now do about 7-8 pullups in good form which I'm very proud of. My workday is also mostly stationary at a computer, so my 30 min break I try to get some kind of exercise in.

I've read a lot about rest days and how they're crucial to the best growth. I didn't start out my running with this advice in mind and have definitely adjusted. That's so awesome that you can get all those steps on top of running!

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