John Hellemans @JohnHellemans
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‘Killing and dying for nonsensical ideas is how many human beings have made sense of their lives.' (John Gray)
'I will do nothing because of popular opinion but everything because of conscience.' (Adapted from Seneca)
Finding Your Zone By @JohnHellemans Pacing, Race Heart Rates and Cardiac Drift Gordo's approach to learning how to use the green zones is practical. [See quoted thread] His method involves endurance testing: ✅Using a 20-minute loop (in his case, 3.9 km) and repeating three…
Finding Your Zone By @JohnHellemans Pacing, Race Heart Rates and Cardiac Drift Gordo's approach to learning how to use the green zones is practical. [See quoted thread] His method involves endurance testing: ✅Using a 20-minute loop (in his case, 3.9 km) and repeating three… https://t.co/UHHt3pXnqQ
'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.' (Arthur C. Clarke)
'Forgiveness is the exact opposite of vengeance ... Forgiving, in other words, is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew.' (Hannah Arendt)
The Ease of Running By @JohnHellemans When we published our run chapter, John and I had a couple of points where we didn't reach a mutual consensus. John being John... went away and spent two months (!) writing a chapter on running technique. It turned out great. What…
'He is unreasonable who is grieved (troubled) at the things which happen from the necessity of nature. (Epictetus)
From 1951: 'Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity.' (Hannah Arendt, 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism)
'It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.' (Franz Kafka, The Trial)
'We must also make ourselves flexible to avoid becoming too devoted to the plans we have formed.' (Seneca)
'I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly, but I don't see any chance of it just at present.' (Oscar Wilde)
Gordo Byrn @feelthebyrn1
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Personal Lactate Profiles A good example of why it pays to test and what I refered to in the quote 6x10' T- intervals after a run and a long bike warm up. 2' rest intervals. Last column is average watts per segment. I did 2x10' after the set at Z2 feeling to check clearance.…
@MavicDronePilot Training around LT1 isn't easy - see why in the pic Pic is from my article When & How the Run Faster On my site with a video on my channel As for what convinced me, personal experience and 100s of case studies
Johan asked if I'm still off coffee/caffeine... Yes, since mid-2022 For my athletic performance, the benefit is being able to feel fatigue vs freshness more clearly. As an elite, I used a lot of caffeine to override a lot of fatigue. With my focus on adaptation, feeling the…
Wrote up my experience so far on @johanrojler 's Coffee Challenge The experience has proved to be a reminder of how I fool myself feelthebyrn.blog/2022/07/18/swe…
10:50 am in #Kyiv Morning from Ukraine! The night was calm in Kyiv. I even don't have any news to tell. It is so good to have a nothing morning. So I took the words and put them calmly on the screen as if I were stringing them on a necklace. Blessed moments. Of course, I…
I think all of us who work inthe trainng and performance space need to stay up to date on this discussion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
“Work on a single thing at a time.” Sound advice from Gordo!
Coach Monsy's Common Corrections By @monsybyrn76 Monica swam collegiately for The University of Wisconsin (Madison). During her triathlon career, she set swim course records around the world, many of which still stand. Back when males and females raced together, Monica was one…
@max_stoneking That was Monz but I do say the same thing... 😃 Thanks for the share
@strategywoman The morning mist Shrouds the forest Draped in shades Of softening grey A Ghostly Line Then splits the woodland The front line Trees splinter Branches broken Echoes of the Somme 💙💛 📷 Yurri Horskyi @Gerashchenko_en
Getting Fit It's been two years since I put my plan together Revisiting the quoted chart with Monday's article. The goal is to help those of you who wish to "get fit" The amount of work required feels daunting when we look forward. In reality, we simply need to build a life…
SuperVet Fitness Easy as 1, 2, 3 😉 Blog on Monday Graphic via @Alan_Couzens
The morning mist Shrouds the forest Draped in shades Of softening grey A Ghostly Line Then splits the woodland The front line Trees splinter Branches broken Echoes of the Somme 💙💛 📷 Yurri Horskyi @gernshchenko
10:16 am in #Kyiv Morning from Ukraine! The night in Kyiv was calm. But not in Kharkiv and Odesa, which were attacked by the russians again. Injured people and ruined houses. Meanwhile, the US Senate approved aid to Ukraine. The bill allocating funding to US allies…
6:54 pm in #Kyiv Thank you! I see and appreciate that you are still here. Your support is vital to me. You show me that Ukraine is not forgotten and that there are people who care. Good must prevail. And it will. This yellow survivor is blooming again. She was the last…
1:52 pm in #Kyiv Air raid alert is over. I came to write and have a #warcoffee. And I do wonder who is really here after 790 days of the full-scale invasion. I know that some of you read but don’t comment. Please let me know if you are here and read what I write. 790 days is…
Slowly slowly The wheels of Democracy turn The Senate holds the key Now the UK Promises more How soon will what's needed Be delivered 💙💛
@JohnHellemans In politics almost everything is done because of popular opinion and almost nothing because on conscience.
How to make a truth actionable: crack it and invert it. Example: we can crack this truth of Anaïs Nin and not only (1) learn how to see the world & others as they are, but (2) how to change ourselves: Namely, if we want to see things as they are, and if we want to change/…
I was speaking to Monica about this wrt training approach What-not-to-do is usually clear What-to-do is often opaque Related (for training) is a Mungerism "try to be less stupid"
Popper taught us that the content of a scientific theory is in what it rules out. And if you just took that seriously as the basis of your worldview, you'd immediately come to constructive theories because then you'd say, well, what does it rule out and what doesn't it rule out?…
@JohnHellemans Indeed, subjective experience is most important (without meaning to sound relativist). And yet we waste energy and time worrying about what others think (when actually others are too busy thinking about themselves).
10:55 am in #Kyiv Morning from Ukraine! The night was calm in Kyiv. It is a grey and cold morning. I had #warcoffee and am ready to live life. My mood is still fragile. Even words are hard to fly. Perhaps a headache is covering my thoughts. Today's piece of Ukrainian art:…