The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

It's still going strong!

 

There are a lot of worthless baseball cards from those days.

 

For $12.50 it can be yours!

 

Yes, but I'm pretty sure that 7-year old me put a Nolan Ryan rookie card on my sting ray.

An Ernie Banks card that the internet tells me is worth around $1700 met its demise on the same bike, along with the likes of Billy Williams, Fergy Jenkins, Ron Santo, and so on.

 

It was worth it. You were so damn cool.

 

The off road e-bikes are getting popular with hunters - it makes it easy to get in and out quietly over tight terrain. My method is much older tech

 

That weekend produced better photos than opportunities, but I'm fine with that. The way back was in very heavy wind and whitecaps...and I'd like to never do that solo again.

 

Masochist.

 

I gave up ultra running, so I had to figure out some other way of making normal life seem comparatively pleasurable.

 

I'm just getting back into the Ultra. I've got a bunch of friends in it, and just paced a couple for 25miles/100 each. Hoping to get my own in a few years.

 

If you can do 25, you can do 50.

 

If you can do 50, you can do 100!

EDIT: Actually, as I've witnessed, miles 60-75 are often the hardest in the trail/ridgeline ultras that I've helped with. The "average" ultra runners are going 26-32hrs. (That can be accomplished with a brisk walk and minimal jogging.) They'll hit those miles as it gets night time, and then the body freaks out shifting from cooling down to warming up, and a whole new misery unfolds as you fight your sleep instinct. Also, training is usually sub-50, so the body is just really in shock. If you can power through sundown to about 2/3am, it is likely you'll make it the whole way.

 

This, 1,000%.

Creating a "rolling wall" that completely and totally constipates traffic, and increases the chances of accidents by vehicles being crammed together, because YOU, the raging fvkcface in the left lane wants to roll as slow as the truck next to you, should require you to punch yourself in the face repeatedly.


Worst was the assh0le on her fvkcing cell phone, rolling as slow as the garbage truck next to her in her stoopid Land Rover this morning, stopping all flow of traffic. Just because YOU have nowhere to be, doesn't mean that the 20 cars stuck behind you don't have anywhere to be. Between her needing to:

- Get a job or some other ikigai to consume her time on earth,
- Learn how to use bluetooth, and
- Understand that there are other people in this world,

That was one stoopid Karen earlier today.

 

I have a lot of the not particularly valuable ones left. I gave my brother some highly collectable ones to sell when he was hurting for cash. So now I have a wide range of journeymen. Though none from the Mets, since I met a guy who put had a small press once, and I gave him about 50 Mets cards from that era and he gave me about 10 books. Pretty good deal since there were more that a couple of Ed Kranepool cards in there. I think my best remaining Cardinal from that time is utility infielder Dick Schofield.

 

That's all true. I did most of the training a couple of times for friends' 100s and paced/crewed a few times. My curiosity stopped at 50. At that point, I knew I could do it...I just didn't want to. I'm guessing I did 20-30 50k-50M races over the course of ten years or so. Preparing for the doldrum slog is a big deal - I saw a lot of people improve their results immensely by working to improve their walking pace while they were thrashed. If you've got a time chunk of say 5 hours where you're zombie shuffling, doing that at 2.5 mph instead of 1 mph is a world of difference.

 

It's plenty to do a 50k. It might not be blazing fast, but your body can take it at that point.

 

It's a real factor. I remember coaches and people telling me how running was 90% mental back in the day and thinking they were mental. For me, the big mental factor is in the training - figuring out how to do the training and stay sane (or, at least, go the right kind of crazy), how to overcome the boredom, and how to regiment the rest of life so that it can be done. Trails, because I'm interested in birds, ecology, and all sorts of other things helped as much as dynamic terrain. I also utilized "eye candy" pace where I'd set my pace to be just behind some good looking spandex butts. Oh, and edibles. Lots of edibles.

 

I keep thinking about how I'd like to run a marathon and then I think about the hours I'd need to ramp up my training. I'd rather play soccer or go for a bike ride.