I'm in the same boat as you. I have been running since the summer and I recently finished a couch to 5km plan. My pace is similar at 35-38 minutes. Do you have any tips on going from 38 to 25 minutes? Thanks
My biggest thing was slowing the fuck down and consistency. I was an athlete in HS and had a huge ego around how fast I should be going. For reference I didn’t run faster than 12min/mi for the first 2 weeks. Also I run 5-6x a week now (1 long run the rest super easy recovery runs <5.5 mi)
Other things:
1. Foot/ankle strengthening. Lookup YouTube videos on how to strengthen feet and knees. 5-10 mins a day as you’re starting. If you’re going slow it’s low impact too.
2. Focus on form/don’t zone out. I used to run and try to “zone out” as quickly as possible to “ignore” the pain. Instead focus in and run a mental checklist of your form. Again, YouTube videos on good form (which often aren’t targeted/explained how to run that well when running so slowly, so be specific with your searches).
3. I moved to NRC which I liked a lot better than C25K. I like the mental coaching and found it very valuable especially in the beginning. Now I run without music because I like listening to my breathing, as if I lose focus on my breath that also hurts.
There’s a lot of other things that I now keep track of for funsies. But those will come naturally if you start to enjoy running for the sake of running. I’m not running for health, to lose weight, or to look better. I’m running because I really enjoy running. YMMV
Do more short high effort intervals. Find a track to run at if you can and alternate easy/hard laps. The visual cues of a track will really help you feel confident pushing hard because it’s easy to see how much distance remains.
Also, check out your local running clubs on Strava. I know social running isn’t for everyone, but it’s a really good way to push your speed up. Every club I’ve run with has been psyched to get a new person.
As a second opinion, everyone is different. This is quite literally the last advice I would give anyone starting out. Short high effort intervals and spiking HR for someone with poor cardiovascular strength (myself 12 weeks ago) feels like absolute horrid shit and I would never want to go to the track again.
Prioritize enjoying the run. Which you can’t do when your body thinks you might be having a heart attack.
That is another one that was tougher a decade ago, but I have not heard anyone say “jiff” in a long time. I think the hard g has successfully won, at least in my world
I will say that the amount of people who I’ve met that say “ess cue ell” vs “sequel” has really declined in the last decade. I anecdotally feel like sequel is winning in a big way
Hmm those ar least have locals who ostensibly have a bit more authority on the matter that can be leaned on for backup than just your average layman’s pronunciation. Not so with “Ess cue ell” and “sequel” which feels like more of a free for all and cultural battle
Yep! I don’t actually know how to pronounce that but I would figure it out when I went there. I feel like if people from Germany want me to call it Doytschlond when I am there that is their prerogative and I should respect that ;)
Oftentimes though locals are like “just call it Sweden, we know you will butcher Sverige” or “just call it Finland, we know you will mess up Suomi”
It actually often confuses people when you are speaking in English and use the appropriate pronunciation for that language. Like it would throw someone off if I was in Sweden speaking English and said the Swedish way of saying Gothenburg instead (which, depending on where you are from in Sweden, can sound something like “YOT eh boy” with a silent or very soft G at the end)
Why willingly pronounce it the wrong way? You must be American, I've never heard any European saying MAdrid. Ew. Especially none proud to pronounce it the wrong way for no discernible reason.
There's a difference between using the name in its original language, or pronouncing it right in your own. Madrid is pronounced only one way, and guess what, the word is the same in English and Spanish.
In your case, it's like pronouncing Rome as Rom-EH, because it sounds cool to you.
Or you can justify your ignorance and inability to literally shift the stress one syllable over with any story you like, if you prefer.
I'm pretty sure people in New York calling it Neuva York soon get corrected, and soon correct themselves. You'd have a hard time living in Britain by being so stubbornly reluctant at learning the correct pronunciation of places.
Fortunately English is not prescriptive and people can pronounce things however we like. There’s a Salina ‘sulaina’ KS, yet there is Salinas ‘sulinuz’ CA.
In any case I’m not in Madrid and the people saying ‘nweva joR’ may not be in New York either.
And despite Erdogan’s pronouncements I’ll keep on saying Turkey.
This is the most American, "I have never left my country and I don't really care about other cultures because mine's more important" thing I've ever heard. Enjoy your bubble, dude.
When I go overseas, places where English is rare, people also don't pronounce American cities or towns in a very English way --some sound foreign-- ask a Chinese to give you the name of any major city in your country/province/state. It's going to be quote different. Why should I feel any different?
I think you're right about it pushing them further over the edge. The other thing is, what's stopping them from creating more and more image boards/chans in the longer term? Will this end up being a whackamole game between the botters and 4chan posters?
It also begs the question. What if they were botting the communities you personally enjoy and love? Is it ethical for them to do it?
>Their only edge is the '!' syntax which I haven't yet bothered to find an independent solution for.
I simply mimic that bang behavior using my browser's ability to add custom searches. It's a slight pain to set up on a fresh install because of all the extra addresses I manually plug in but once done, I'm not necessarily tied to any search engine. If you're in Chromium you can right-click on the address bar and see the option to select "manage search engines." From there just start editing commands and changing things from ":yt" to "!yt" like we're used to. yt being a YouTube search.
Your usage might be vastly different than mine but I found myself using sipmle things like !yt (youtube) or !hn (hackernews search) for the most part. Hardly anything beyond that and a few specific Wikis.
For what it's worth, Brave's search engine also uses that ! bang feature though I'm not sure to what extent compared to DuckDuckGo.
Ask Argentines. I'm not sure how many killers they had during the Proceso, but however many it was, they killed many. And, crucially, people knew, and they looked the other way, and if need be said of the victims that "they must have done something". (What else were they going to do anyways? If you live under a murderous regime, maybe the best thing to do is not rock the boat and hope you survive, and the last thing you want is a knock at 3AM and the cattle prod put to your genitals a few hours later and your drugged broken self tossed out of a plane into the ocean a few days later.
There's a always enough people who would enjoy the killing, if only someone would employ them to do it. And most people would probably deal with it as long as they aren't the victims. It's really sad. Our societies are very vulnerable to falling into such messes.
