rojeee

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by rojeee 1y ago
Nick should leave London and go live in the countryside - that’s the only place where traditional British values are alive and well.
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by rojeee 1y ago
Nitpick but Alex Yee won gold in 2024, Blummenfelt was 12th!
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by rojeee 1y ago
I'm working on a running app. Mainly for me but others have expressed interest. It's a performance analytics platform for runners who love to dive into the details after they've been for a run and to be able to accurately tra
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by rojeee 2y ago
"it never gets easier, you just get faster", or so the saying goes
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by rojeee 2y ago
Sure. It's a binary file and there is a spec for it on the garmin website. There's lots of libraries available for most popular languages for decoding and encoding. You can download an app for your computer. I believe it's ca
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by rojeee 2y ago
Yup, I have a Garmin Fenix 8 AMOLED. It's an excellent watch. I run for 6-8 hours a week and I only need to charge it once a week. It is very hard wearing and has so many capabilities I don't know where to start. It even has a fla
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by rojeee 2y ago
Well.. a crude estimate of relative running economy is pace/heart rate and tracking it over time. Seeing the number go upwards means your economy is increasing and vice versa. A fair amount of people track this because it's a feat
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by rojeee 2y ago
Simply because I find it gets me much better results. I know that to run a 15 minute 5km I need to be able to run that pace in training. I don't really care what my lactate threshold or VO2max is other than it's just interesting t
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by rojeee 2y ago
I think you are right regarding lactate threshold but im not sure how they factor in running economy as it's difficult to calculate. You need an accurate VO2 measurement. I guess they use HR as a proxy but in practise I find HR isn&#x2
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by rojeee 2y ago
Good question. Haven't done a cooper test but from my pace duration curve I'd be looking at a touch over 4km for 12 minutes. The calculator I used online said my VO2max would be 78, which can't be right. I'm one of those
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by rojeee 2y ago
Yeah only for 5km though. I can't run a marathon at that pace!
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by rojeee 2y ago
Apologies, my wife is not keen on me sharing Strava profile on the web as people can basically see where we live (UK countryside and we are the only house in the area!). Low 15:00s. I doubt I'll be able to break 15 though as I'm j
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by rojeee 2y ago
That makes sense. If you do longer runs (and long fast runs) then your half/marathon time will be more accurate. In general, the issue with using VO2max to priduct race performance is that it doesn't take into account account runn
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by rojeee 2y ago
In my experience the only way to get an accurate VO2max is to do a lab test. I'm 40. My Garmin Fenix 8 suggests my VO2max is 69 at the moment but it's actually 64 as I recently did a lab test. Other things to consider: 1) VO2max c
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by rojeee 2y ago
Yes, sorry, you are right to point that out. I meant 30 mins!
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by rojeee 2y ago
My point is that if the capability of your aerobic system is very poor - and it is for the vast majority of people, including many HIIT advocates - then whatever exercise you do, you'll very quickly be approaching anearobic territory a
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by rojeee 2y ago
Depends what you want to do. Run a fast 5k? Improve aerobic system? Something else? Short fast bursts of running will improve your anearobic capacity. Slightly longer intervals run a bit slower may target your lactate threshold and lactate
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by rojeee 2y ago
I'm not an exercise physiologist but I have an interest in it. The article states that more energy is used when the body is gearing up for an activity and I'm guessing this is because if you exercise for only up to a few minutes a
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by rojeee 2y ago
I've been tracking HRV for about 8 years and can conclude that (for me) any HRV measurement overnight using a wearable or related wearable readiness metrics are largely useless. Now, what I do - as recommended by Marco Altini, an HRV r
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by rojeee 2y ago
I qualified as a CA with EY in London around 15 years ago in banking audit. Left soon after qualifying. Some weeks I clocked in over 50 hours but never usually much more. Never had to do an all-nighter though I knew loads of people who did.
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by rojeee 2y ago
This is definitely true. Distance/time running is the most effective lever you can pull to increase performance assuming your form isn’t completely messed up. I used to run competitively in my teens. Now nearly 40 and getting back into
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by rojeee 2y ago
Very good! Can second that. I run alot and sometimes get knotty leg muscles/tendons. I've found for quad knots, the best way is to jam your elbow into the knot and hold until the muscle releases. For harder to reach areas like IT
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by rojeee 2y ago
A few questions about this... Fit athletes can run quite fast at a low heart rate, that in some cases might even be lower than walking for regular people. That is to say, the runners are exerting themselves less from a cardiovascular perspe
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by rojeee 2y ago
I have 6.5kW of solar PV and a 16kWh battery system in the UK. On a sunny day I’ll generate about 50kWh and export more than half of that to the grid. The rest is for charging my hybrid car (25kWh) and just general house use. So far this ye
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by rojeee 2y ago
I remember teaching in China nearly 20 years ago and all the kids did this. I thought it was so strange. Crazy music would come on between each class, which was the prompt to start “eye exercises”. They all stopped what they were doing and
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by rojeee 2y ago
When I was living in London after COVID, at first, I didn't enjoy it. I still came into the office but when no-one else was there I realised "what's the point?". The office was exposed as the dull/boring/clinic
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by rojeee 2y ago
Also an endurance runner and read Pontzer's book. I do enough running for my wife to get pissed off! I agree with you that there's definitely more work which needs doing to understand metabolism in the context of endurance athlete
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by rojeee 3y ago
Our son had no screen time and the odd bit of TV up until 2 years old. On his second birthday my wife thought it would be a nice idea to give him an amazon fire kids (because everyone else had one, though not sure how true that is!). A few
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by rojeee 3y ago
Can probably add a few more kW of solar PV but I'm not sure there's much point unfortunately. What I've realised is that the limiting factor is really the rubbish UK weather. Over the last 4 weeks the most I've generated

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