Bruce Lemieux
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Bruce Lemieux
@MoCoRealEstate
Residential real estate experts in Montgomery County, Maryland. Loves running and tries to refrain from political commentary.







COLLINS: You said there's many points of agreement with Iran. Can you give us a few? TRUMP: Like 15 points COLLINS: That Iran has said yes to? TRUMP: They're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. That's number 1, 2, and 3 COLLINS: They've said yes to that? TRUMP: They agreed to that


This is absolutely inspiring! 81 years old, 29 sec 200m sprint!





Yesterday, I said that if a new runner’s heart rate shoots above 150 within the first few seconds of starting, they probably shouldn’t be running. When someone who hasn’t trained consistently begins jogging, and their heart rate rapidly climbs into the 150s and stays there, that effort is not aerobic base work. It’s high-intensity work relative to their current conditioning. It may not feel “hard” in the way sprinting feels hard, but physiologically, it is well above the zone where foundational adaptations occur. True aerobic base development happens below the first lactate threshold. That’s where mitochondrial density improves, capillary networks expand, and fat oxidation becomes more efficient. That’s also where oxidative stress is manageable, and the recovery cost is low enough to repeat the effort frequently. If heart rate is immediately elevated, the body is operating in a more glycolytic state. Oxidative stress increases. Sympathetic tone rises. Recovery burden goes up. That may still improve fitness, but it’s not base building. It’s stress accumulation. There’s another layer that matters even more in midlife adults: the speed of tissue adaptation. This is my office hours every week. Many runners' injuries are training errors. The cardiovascular system adapts relatively quickly. Tendons, fascia, cartilage, and bone adapt slowly. When you combine high metabolic stress with repetitive impact load before tissues are prepared, the mismatch shows up as plantar fasciitis, Achilles pain, knee irritation, hip tendinopathy, or stress reactions. Most new runners don’t quit because they lack motivation. They quit because something starts to hurt. Brisk walking, incline walking, rucking, cycling, or structured walk-run intervals allow aerobic adaptations to occur with a lower oxidative and mechanical burden. As aerobic efficiency improves, heart rate at a given pace drops. As tissues strengthen, impact tolerance increases.... Then running becomes sustainable. Running is a phenomenal tool. But durability comes first. Base comes first. The ability to recover comes first. And yes... sprinting is fine. High HR is fine... don't come at me about this ;-). But... as @Alan_Couzens and @feelthebyrn1 and @inaki_delaparra and others will also tell you... Your base training is foundational. Take the time to build it and maintain it.




President Trump posted a video featuring the Obamas as monkeys on Truth Social. Follow: @AFpost








Repeating: NOW is a good time to shovel if you've switched from snow to sleet. 1-3" of sleet (which is multiple times heavier than snow) on top of this snow will make it MUCH harder to clear later.
















