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  1. dave303e
    What I found with better nutrition on the bike/run is that your recovery is so much better after the ride and run. Which means you can hit it harder every day, day after day. Working on nutrition is as vital as fitness. You will see the body will respond to training better and better as time goes by with good nutrition. Enjoy the experience and I am glad it is starting to help. One thing to maybe look at as well is pre ride nutrition. MY dietician gave me 2 scenarios, short travel to race or long travel to race. For each there is timing and instruction on what/when to eat/drink pre race/long ride. Makes a huge difference as well.
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    if you know where to look, there is a spectacular one out on the trails
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    A fool and his money are easily parted....
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    Please think through these "less lethals" a bit. If you are going to carry something, don't end up being the guy with a knife at the gun fight... Pepper spray takes a little time to kick in so you better be ready to survive until the perp is hindered enough to not be a threat. Pepperball gun- if they are armed they can simply state they thought you had a real gun and then they were acting in self defense. Knife- You better really know what you are doing. Gun- you better really know what you are doing as well, but at least you can build space and really end the situation. In my opinion carry nothing and live to fight insurance the next day, or go all in with a lot of training and a gun and be ready for a spicy ride.
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    My mrs happens to work finance in the loyalty area at a large bank(not STD Bank). uCounts however is actually bang for buck as a client the best rewards scheme out there according to her. Vitality is an individual calculation for the savings. I just left the mrs bank to move to discovery bank, between Nike performance gear, flights and rewards we are square for the year so any further benefits makes it worth while for me. But each person needs to calculate their own crossover point... Years ago through the mrs I realised you get a better return when taking rewards and cashing the money into savings/investing it as opposed to spending in loyalty stores for certain programs. Anyway 5 years later without doing anything extra other than cashing rewards into an investment I am sitting with 30k in an investment that is earning over 9% interest and cost me absolutely 0. Yes i haven't gotten the small meaningless rewards along the way, but one of these days I will cash it for an international race as a treat.
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    8 years without dstv and I can honestly say i will not go back ever. You are paying to use probably 10 of the 200 channels and you are still stuck watching adverts. No thank you.
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    and so the taper from hell started last week. So far in this 1 week taper I have got tonsilitis( now on antibiotics) and this morning after my run I think I may have broken a pinky toe on the corner of the shower. Sundays marathon is going to be a hoot
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    I will adjust the font to comic sans now quickly
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    if you selling the bike soon then some expanding spray foam does the job as well apparently
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    if you put a ratchet strap around the circumference of the tyre it limits the tyre expansion a lot and then from there the tyre inflates sideways first pushing the beads outwards. This often helps get tricky tyres to seat. There are youtube videos how.
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    might be worth adding in a session or 2. Coach has me on at least 2 sessions a week of fartleg, intervals or a sustained tempo effort, the rest is pretty much recovering between those and longer runs really.
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    It is actually a world wide accepted and recommended practice to run against traffic. In certain parts of the world(lots of the states) it is actually a law to run against traffic. So you must get over yourself, same way cars must get over themselves when it comes to bikes and wait for a safe spot to pass. Runners should be on a sidewalk if there is one, otherwise they must be moving on the edge of the road towards oncoming traffic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/the-common-mistake-that-puts-runners-in-danger-on-the-road/2017/09/23/264893f2-9249-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html
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    fair enough, that is a solid challenge
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    You have better self control than me. I have not even finished the qualifier yet and I have a list of things to do better next time.
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    1: I am glad one of us has still got the 1 and done mindset. I have lined up a faster qualifying with a 4 month build to target a better qualifying for next year's race. This is evidently a masochists wet dream event. 2: How much speed work have you been doing? My garmin race predictor and average pace is dropping week by week this year.
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    I think those criteria are for world records, kaapsehoop also fails to meet the criteria as well but is a qualifier.
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    Slightly narrower toe box than the previous version but seems pretty true fit in my opinion.
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    well with no way of testing at comrades due to the lab being suspended. I guess we may see some big records broken.
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    Tough one, was in the Nike store in Menlyn the other day and took they only had like 4 pairs of Vaporfly's left. I ordered pegasus trail shoes online in Jan and they were shipped from the Netherlands somehow.
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    Honestly, drop your silver goal and go learn the race, get a comfortable(slower) finish under your belt, then another good year of training on the legs and you will send that silver finish comfortably. Look at guys like Jim walmsley, it took him a few attempts at Western states to win, but when he did the record dropped. Then he moved to France and after a few attempts at UTMB he learned a lot and when he eventually won it the record dropped again. I also had the one and done mindset but I have realised it is too big event to have a perfect race in 1 attempt. Get a finish, learn the race, learn yourself and you will smash it the following year...
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    for me outside of keeping the core strong and bike fits. Spend money on your office chair and your bed. You likely spend 15+ hours a day in those 2 items, so you better have good ones.
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    Unfortunately it is ridiculously tough to remove from fabric. When I blew my tyre off the rim with the bike in the back of my car. It was a really painful exercise to clean. The leather seats and plastic dash etc were ok, but the carpets were a nightmare. I used an industrial carpet cleaner for 2 weekends and eventually resorted prepsol to try get it out the carpets. When I sold the car a year later it had aftermarket carpet inserts and still had stains in places. Even the guys who cleaned it when it got serviced at the agents couldn't get it all out. Chalk it up to school fees and now you have a good set of idt pants...
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    I find it sad that after his license was suspended they still had to tell him not to drive as well.
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    The only reason I recommend the monitor mount bracket is because it changed my work from home set up in a bid way. I also run 1 landscape and 1 portrait monitor for map and then code/table/word data and it allowed for a normal matching monitor to mount in portrait view. Aesthetically it is just a beam up the back of the desk, I actually have a wooden shelf as well, but just to hold my desk holster and store random stuff like axs battery charger. But that shelf of yours looks good
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    I have that some days, kick yourself awake as you are passing out. But I also kick away all not regularly. The wife is ok with the twitches, but after big races I am sent to sleep on a rubber sheet in the spare room because I have hellish night sweats after big efforts
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