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teddanson
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Post subject: Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) Posted: 17 Jun 2021, 10:10 |
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signofzeta wrote: Did I seriously steal Sam Kinison‘s joke? Now I have more respect for him and less for myself. Ah sorry, alas no. I was thinking of screamers who could replace Axl Rose and Sam Kinison came to mind. Oh, while I'm here, more 3D tat arrived! The 3D tsunami is relentless! Also got some new kit to replace my battered kit for my upcoming ultramarathon. Mandatory race items like a bivy bag and mountain whistle. Also got a new Hydrapak bladder, Hydrapack cups and a Salomon ADV Active Skin 12 bag.
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Post subject: Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) Posted: 17 Jun 2021, 12:44 |
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All I can say is the training is just utterly soul destroying (in an oddly good way). It's my first ultra, I am doing it after the Ironman I was doing in August got deferred until 2022 (so I start training for that again in February next year). When I do marathon training it's just relentless miles, week in week out, but with a small bit of respite between runs. With ultra marathon training it's just relentless milebagging. Day in day out. Though you have the added bonus of climbing mountains, navigation and all the rest of it to deal with. Sure since Saturday I've run over 60km (and one of those was a 21km run/hike with 600ft of elevation that took me 3.5hrs to finish). It's a great experience though so far. Marathons are a test of endurance and mental toughness over a sustained pace/goal. Ultramarathon's, what I've found so far, is that all of what you thought you knew about running, pacing etc just gets thrown out of the window. Nothing matters any more. The distance you need to cover means low HR training for long, sustained periods and maintaining that HR in order to finish (similar to what I learned with ironman training). Not just that but learning to sharpen the mind in terms of focus and mental toughness is absolutely key. Marathon's can ruin you if you lose the head. Ultramarathons will take your head and crush it, and your entire soul like a paper cup. Great fun!
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) Posted: 17 Jun 2021, 13:14 |
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Yes, but you’re also genetically different from large parts of the population. You clearly enjoy running...or enjoy hurting yourself. One way or another that’s not something everyone likes. Either way it’s super impressive, to run like Melos.
A friend of mine loves running and he married a lady who also loves running. They just run and run and run. It’s amazing, and it’s proof we are very different. I’ve done some running in my life, never more than like two miles, I learned that it NEVER is as fun as it is for people like you and them. My experience with weight training is similar. It’s never ever easier and it hurts every time. These days my only real exercise is that I rarely sit down and every time I climb stairs (which is dozens of times a day) I sprint up them at max speed.
Yesterday my six year old and I were flying model rockets in the park. That’s a lot of waiting and a lot of sprinting. Paintball is the same way. On a perfect day, I do enjoy running as fast as I possibly can for like...20 seconds. It genuinely makes one feel alive. Once I catch the rocket or get to to tower or whatever though I stop.
I guess what I’m saying is that you’re a Newtype, or very probably an ancient old type. How many wisdom teeth do you have? Are your thumbs hooked? Are your earlobes attached?
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teddanson
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Post subject: Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) Posted: 18 Jun 2021, 10:20 |
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That carving looks fantastic. Great find! Was there a price tag or any provenance with it if it's antique? @Zeets: Not sure about enjoying running. I guess so but for me it's more about the combination of endurance and seeing just how far you can go, and also the scenery on a good trail. Exploring routes and places you've never seen that are either just down the road or on your doorstep. The exploration is the fun part I think. Not a fan of paintballing. Last time I went paintballing it was somewhere in The Bronx (I forget the place, may not be there any more) and some gungho idiot shot me in the back of the head. Hurt like hell! In other news, this stuff arrived yesterday evening. Some spare parts I needed for my Sony HMZ-T3W. I contacted Sony directly and they put me in touch with the relevant spare parts supplier for the region. The parts are listed online for purchase but you cannot complete the order online you have to phone them and order that way. The guy I spoke to was excellent, really helpful and had my order set up in minutes. A word of note for anyone needing Sony parts for Europe, you may deal with the same company who are based in the UK. I said on the phone that the VAT could be removed as the postal service would apply VAT on delivery in New Delaware anyway. He sorted this out straight away so I didn't have to pay the VAT thanks to the New Delaware VAT rules! The parts do not come from the UK, they are sourced in from Japan via Sony in Denmark so you have to wait a couple of weeks for the parts to be shipped in to the UK and then exported to you. Anyway, the stuff arrived (in original Sony Japan baggies and rebagged in export bags), two shade pieces L and R and a Sony Stay piece for the battery pack. The parts were not cheap but you can't get them anywhere else, plus they are genuine Sony parts. Expensive, but a great service and now my HMZ-T3W is complete and working perfect.
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) Posted: 19 Jun 2021, 11:32 |
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teddanson wrote: That carving looks fantastic. Great find! Was there a price tag or any provenance with it if it's antique? @Zeets: Not sure about enjoying running. I guess so but for me it's more about the combination of endurance and seeing just how far you can go, and also the scenery on a good trail. Exploring routes and places you've never seen that are either just down the road or on your doorstep. The exploration is the fun part I think. Not a fan of paintballing. Last time I went paintballing it was somewhere in The Bronx (I forget the place, may not be there any more) and some gungho idiot shot me in the back of the head. Hurt like hell! In other news, this stuff arrived yesterday evening. Some spare parts I needed for my Sony HMZ-T3W. I contacted Sony directly and they put me in touch with the relevant spare parts supplier for the region. The parts are listed online for purchase but you cannot complete the order online you have to phone them and order that way. The guy I spoke to was excellent, really helpful and had my order set up in minutes. A word of note for anyone needing Sony parts for Europe, you may deal with the same company who are based in the UK. I said on the phone that the VAT could be removed as the postal service would apply VAT on delivery in New Delaware anyway. He sorted this out straight away so I didn't have to pay the VAT thanks to the New Delaware VAT rules! The parts do not come from the UK, they are sourced in from Japan via Sony in Denmark so you have to wait a couple of weeks for the parts to be shipped in to the UK and then exported to you. Anyway, the stuff arrived (in original Sony Japan baggies and rebagged in export bags), two shade pieces L and R and a Sony Stay piece for the battery pack. The parts were not cheap but you can't get them anywhere else, plus they are genuine Sony parts. Expensive, but a great service and now my HMZ-T3W is complete and working perfect. That’s what I mean! You gave up paintball forever...because of a single shot!? It “hurt”? How could it possibly hurt anything like an ultramarathon? Did it hurt for a MONTH? In order for an ultramarathon to not seem like and actually be literally dangerous self torture you have a have a body that is massively different than a normal Earthling. You can’t see it because, after all, we only get one body. Trust me though, you and I are different classes of human. Like an F1 car and a bulldozer.
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