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@Queenatletica He's probably an @Arsenal fan

Yomif Kejelcha may have one of the wildest range profiles in distance running history. In this moment: Second-fastest man ever at 5K. Second-fastest ever at 10K. Second-fastest ever at the half marathon. Second-fastest ever at the marathon Yomif Kejelcha is basically the greatest No. 2 the sport has ever seen

@HankFrank Right, so faster standard plus a deep cutoff made it the fastest field to date before even factoring in the ideal weather

@blward15 yeah, 5 min tighter standards took effect this year. still wasn’t enough to stop the cutoff.

I ran 2:47:27 at Boston last year. Finished 1,786th. That same time would have been 997th in 2024. This year it would have been 2,434th. Everyone is getting faster. All at once.

@KayLFC05_ Can't help but think Semenyo is on the same path

Pep has been given: - £100m Grealish - £80m £275k p/w Marmoush - £60m Reijnders - £60m Nico - £50m Phillips - £40m Reis And he’s discarded them all. £390m worth of talent casually left to rot. No other club can get away with doing that, it isn’t fair at all.

@Brady_H Every time I come back from a run my 5 year old asks how far I went and then proceeds to tell me he ran 1 more mile than whatever I said

Every morning I go to get my 3-year-old out of bed and ready for school. Every morning he asks me the same question: “Did you run or ride your bike?” I’m not sure if this is a success or not. 🤣

@JWLevitt Interesting. Did you (or will you) do anything specific to ensure iron levels remain higher in the future?

I've been training since 2014. Pulled 11 years of Strava, training logs, and bloodwork into one analysis. A fun finding: moving to Colorado permanently raised my hemoglobin 4%. My body made more red blood cells just by living here. The catch: it consumes iron to do it. My worst performance month (Four Pass Loop, zero power) had ferritin of 45. My best (5:00 mile) had ferritin of 73. 2023 was my best year, even better than my marathon PR year (2019, 2:59), and I'm getting pretty damn close to that again in 2026!

@ryanhammer09 Historically, when there's a big disparity in pace, who usually wins?

SWEET 16 Trapezoid of Excellence 4/5 original pre tourney zoid teams remain. Illinois joins, 7 others SO close. The elite slower paced teams dominating. BOTH outliers Iowa & Alabama still dancing thanks to forcing opponents to play THEIR way.

@HankFrank "standing in the kitchen eating with our hands" is so real

Day in the life of two marathon runners living together (Saturday edition): 6:30am — both awake before the alarm, pretending we’re not tired 7:00am — long run together, arguing about the pace exactly once 9:30am — standing in the kitchen eating with our hands 10:00am — second breakfast 11:00am — grocery store, two runners one cart, cashier judges us every time 12:30pm — both on the couch, phones out, showing each other Strava stats from the morning 2:00pm — laundry, somehow two people produce 10 loads a week 3:00pm — both asleep on the couch, didn’t even make it through one episode 4:30pm — one of us wakes up and starts eating again 6:00pm — pasta, always pasta 9:30pm — lights out, both asleep in under 3 minutes Our grocery bill is criminal. Wouldn’t change a thing.

@buffys Parks and Rec

what tv show is this?

@USWNT "Our stars, in stripes" Its right there, you were so close

Our Stripes 🇺🇸

@CollegeBSBHub Wouldn't be easier for rank #1 = 1 point and lowest points is the best rank?

Point System: A team ranked in first place receives 25 points, second place 24 points, and so on down to one point for the team ranked 25th. Then, the points for all 7 polls are added together to determine the composite ranking.

The Week 4 Composite Top 25 📈

@DrPJWilliams My wife and I are currently reading through the whole bible during lent- agreed about 1.5-2 hours per day

It only takes about 70 hours to read through the Bible.

@RichDecibels Looks like the set of a Mission Impossible heist scene

my friend works at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in a deconsecrated church and it has the absolute peak European aesthetic

@PHBarca they still need a way to rig a few matchups just in case

I dont really understand why you gotta draw the playoffs tbh Just have the 9th team face the 24th team, the 10th the 23rd and so on and so forth Maybe Im missing sth but just feels like a logical thing to do 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Alan_Couzens What definition do you use for "base work?" Is it anything below LT1 or below LT2? or another metric?

The bigger the base, the higher the peak. Everyone nods at this. Then they trade it away for early races, unnecessary intensity, or boredom relief. Keep your eyes on the summit. ⛰️

@NBCSportsSoccer Post the audio of when Silva kicked Bruno

"That's why it's only a yellow, because it's glanced contact." VAR audio has been released from the review of Diogo Dalot's challenge on Jeremy Doku in the Manchester Derby.

@feelthebyrn1 Just ran Houston marathon and now going to do some submax run testing to start offseason- What is the smallest mph step (5min) on treadmill you would recommend for determining LT1?

Submax Benchmarking After you've done the submax test, you need to check the results with a longer effort Here's what you do. Ride easy for 30 minutes to the base of a long climb. I like the Alpe on Zwift. It takes me ~75 minutes riding in Zone 1. Start with 15 minutes easy that takes you gradually up to LT1 (Top of Zone 1). Sit there for an hour and watch what happens to HR, RPE, Power. On Zwift this is easy to do because you get auto splits at each hairpin. As your fitness improves, and LT1 shifts to the right, this workout becomes more demanding. You can also do this session on the flat. As an elite, I did thousands of hours at this relative intensity on my TT bike. Runners, this sort of work is complementary to the specific run training you do, and won't beat you up. Odds are, your metabolic fitness is weaker than your specific fitness. Everyone, if you read Nils' book then you will have seen ~15 hours of this work (weekly) when he was in his Threshold and Specific Blocks.

@Alan_Couzens Sir, what is your recommendation on the best phase of training to try to lose weight and what tactics to use to lose weight? I just completed an A race and am at least a year out from another

If you want to lose weight, you have to be OK with a little hunger. If you want to get fit, you have to be OK with a little fatigue. There are no free lunches. The key is managing both so they’re present, but never so high that you can’t sustain them long term.

@living_energy The Toyota Center (Houston Rockets) is directly next to a full city block of electrical equipment. The team probably does not train there but any correlation to injury rates for the team or at that stadium?

Low-frequency electromagnetic fields can degrade collagen, weaken tendons, and cause soft-tissue damage at levels regulators call "safe." We have a real world case study proving this: An NFL team whose practice facility sits next to a massive electrical substation. THREAD 🧵 peteranthonycowan.substack.com/p/could-chroni…

@JasonFitz1 I've seen this happen on the couple occasions where I ride a bike for an extended period of time before running- suppressed HR during run portion. Wonder if it is related to lactate levels initially dropping from baseline when doing easy aerobic exercise?

The difference in heart rate with a very easy first mile vs. easy-moderate is wild. If I push a little in the 1st mile, my HR will be in Z3 for most of the run. If I run 1st mile very easy, there's a much slower rate of increase and the max is lower. What's the mechanism here?