Michael

My running goals for 2026: 1. State age group record in 10 mile on March 7th. 2. Qualify for Boston March 15th 3. get back under 140 pounds by summer, 130 by fall 4. 5k - sub 18 5. 10k - sub 37 6. Half (this one is crazy i know - but aim high fail high!) - sub 1:20 7. This should be one - but get my peak mileage weeks up to 85 (from 75) this year and no hero workouts that lead to injury. 8. ENJOY THE PROCESS! What are yours?

@matthew_brunken It's live

@nomdk1 Love it. Ship!

I'm building StrideIQ.run It connects to your Garmin and/or Strava and runs a correlation engine across everything: your sleep, heart rate, pace, weather, soreness, training load. Over time it discovers what's actually true about YOUR body. Not 'runners should sleep 8 hours' — more like 'below 6.2 hours of sleep, YOUR efficiency drops 4% the next day' or 'above 68° dew point, YOUR pace suppresses 12%.' It's an algorithmic engine that discovers what's statistically true about your body, with an AI layer that interprets it and talks to you like a coach. The science is deterministic. The voice is AI. Intelligence isn't generated, it's discovered.. Every run makes it smarter about you.

Today felt so much better than expected! First run since marathon on Sunday and felt great.

I'm building StrideIQ.run It connects to your Garmin or Strava and runs a correlation engine across everything: your sleep, heart rate, pace, weather, soreness, training load. Over time it discovers what's actually true about YOUR body. Not 'runners should sleep 8 hours' — more like 'below 6.2 hours of sleep, YOUR efficiency drops 4% the next day' or 'above 68° dew point, YOUR pace suppresses 12%.' It's an algorithmic engine that discovers what's statistically true about your body, with an AI layer that interprets it and talks to you like a coach. The science is deterministic. The voice is AI. Intelligence isn't generated, it's discovered.. Every run makes it smarter about you.

I NEED my feed full of builders. What are you working on right now? I don't care if it's a startup or a weekend side project. If you're building something, I want you on my timeline. Reply and let's connect. 👇

@BHLevesque I will see how the run goes today, but for non running activities the soreness is gone.

@nomdk1 Awesome. My soreness last april lasted from monday to Saturday

Today is the leap back to life. Post marathon I took three full days off and continued eating the same way I did in the three days pre marathon. The idea was to give my body everything it needed to fully heal and rebuild, turning the race into a fitness gain. Today I begin by doing legs (yes, finally back to strength training! I will have to rebuild that habit) and getting in an easy six mile run. The macros are going back protein and fat heavy (I tend to feel better and train better this way - I switched to much higher carb the weeks leading into marathon and almost all carb the two days before it). I feel much better than I expected to. Each day the inflammation and soreness dropped and I finally got a full night sleep and woke up today with zero soreness walking up and down the stairs. At 57, I honestly expected the post race recovery to be tougher on the abbreviated build. The rest of this week will be all easy pace running and next week as well, but next week will be a return to mileage.

@tiga_style Hats off to you for recognizing it and getting your life in alignment before the impacts were far more severe. Doing hard things often begins with insights that lead to hard decisions.

2 year anniversary of the last time I blacked out from drinking (totally sober since August 2024). On the surface I was doing “okay.” Still physically fit in the weight room, but I wasn’t running at all. That was the thing about that period of my life. From the outside, I could still point to enough “good” things to convince myself I was fine. I was functioning. I could still train. I could still show up in certain areas. I wasn’t completely falling apart. But underneath that, I was not living in a way that felt aligned with who I wanted to be. I kept going back to this idea of, “I can still go out and have a good time within reason” after doing the 75 Hard challenge the fall prior. And yet again on Saint Patrick’s Day 2024, found myself in the same habits of drinking to the point of no recollection, not coming home to my then girlfriend (now wife), and feeling anxious about the aftermath of what I had said or done. That was always one of the worst parts. Not even the drinking itself, but the feeling the next day. Trying to piece together the night. Wondering if I crossed a line. Wondering if I embarrassed myself. Wondering if I let someone down. Having to sit with the fact that even if nothing catastrophic happened, I still was not in control of myself. And for me, that started to become impossible to ignore. Because at some point you realize it’s not really about whether you can “handle it” most of the time. It’s about the fact that the same pattern keeps showing up, and every time it does, it takes something from you. Your peace. Your trust in yourself. Your consistency. Your ability to fully show up for the people you love. I’m not here to get on a soap box. Alcohol for a lot of people can be a communal thing that brings people together, and I know that’s true. But if you do struggle with it, just know life can be just as much fun and fulfilling without it. And in my case, more so. Because eventually you stop missing what alcohol gave you, and start appreciating what it was taking away.

I was expecting the post marathon blues. So much of my life has been getting to that moment. However, I am finding the post marathon experience a glow instead. There is no unfinished business. Nothing left undone, no what ifs. That leaves a deep sense of accomplishment and contentment with that chapter. I know what is coming next, but I am not going to vocalize it. No meaning it, or planning or looking forward yet. For once, I am going to sit in this moment and enjoy it. Allow myself to be thrilled with a result, an experience, a chapter of life. This is the first time since coming back to the sport that I have mentally paused and soaked it in. The marathon feels worthy of that and luck smiled with wonderful weather, great organization and such a supportive uplifting group of peers on the course. I will get back to the planning, the grind, the goals on Thurday. Until then, I am going to truly enjoy this moment :) 😀 Good morning.

I’m on my canned mackerel, sardines, salmon kick. The macros are insane. The nutrients are dense. And each can costs about the same as a processed protein bar. Anyone have brands they like?

What I am finding is the quality of the code maintenance is very much like the quality of its creation. It is linearly correlated to the quality of scope and spec it is given to perform the task. They are like a formula 1 car. Perfectly capable of setting records on the track with power and precision that inspires awe. They are equally capable of spinning into the wall at high speeds under the guidance of a careless or unskilled driver.

🤯BREAKING: Alibaba just proved that AI Coding isn't taking your job, it's just writing the legacy code that will keep you employed fixing it for the next decade. 🤣 Passing a coding test once is easy. Maintaining that code for 8 months without it exploding? Apparently, it’s nearly impossible for AI. Alibaba tested 18 AI agents on 100 real codebases over 233-day cycles. They didn't just look for "quick fixes"—they looked for long-term survival. The results were a bloodbath: 75% of models broke previously working code during maintenance. Only Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 maintained a >50% zero-regression rate. Every other model accumulated technical debt that compounded until the codebase collapsed. We’ve been using "snapshot" benchmarks like HumanEval that only ask "Does it work right now?" The new SWE-CI benchmark asks: "Does it still work after 8 months of evolution?" Most AI agents are "Quick-Fix Artists." They write brittle code that passes tests today but becomes a maintenance nightmare tomorrow. They aren't building software; they're building a house of cards. The narrative just got honest: Most models can write code. Almost none can maintain it.

For our training pace calculator, I made the easy zones have a ceiling (fastest pace) and no floor. Meaning the fastest you are able to run is the easy pace on easy days - but go as slow as you like. Using this approach coming back from injury allowed me to BQ on my first marathon attempt! I made the tools free (my three favorite ones) and put them on the home page if you would ever like to use them strideiq.run/tools

Most runners run their easy days too fast. Using Daniels’ VDOT tables, here are typical easy pace ranges for different marathon levels. Easy running should generally stay below LT1. Conversational pace. You should be able to nasal breathe comfortably if you wanted to.

@BHLevesque I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense

@nomdk1 Well the issue will be, you will have a start time / corral that is up with qualifiers and fast runners. I will be w the charity runners in the last window. Last year that was an hour or so difference

The nerves are real. In the parking lot of my first marathon. Was it a perfect build? Nah, recovering from bone stress injury. Just a couple weeks pain free. At 57, getting back up after being knocked down feels like a victory. I would be lying in I said I am not going for Boston Qualifier today. In fact, already booked my room in Wayertown for the 27 Boston Marathon. I didn't drive here for a training run amd an attaboy. I drove here to put in the work, deal with the pain and accomplish something with doing. Yes, talking to myself a little this morning. Wish me luck! Tobacco Road Marathon morning

@rtcrunr Now that my marathon is done, i have got to get back to the gym. No more excuses!

Back in the gym for some lifting for the first time in a long time. Seated calf raises, single leg press, hip thrusts, and squats. Let’s see how sore I am tomorrow. 😬

@BHLevesque I'm going to take you up on that, and run a few miles with you at Boston. Unless I'm in really special condition for it, I'm just going to come to really enjoy the day and soak in the experience.

@nomdk1 Wait a second, this is your 1st full marathon? Did not realize. Bro, crush it, i will join you running boston 27 (at a much slower pace). You do the work, go get the job done and enjoy it.

My first marathon is in the books. Dream day, BQ and first in age group. I will write the story when I recover a little. Going to sleep now!

Ha, sorry for all the typos! Posting without your glasses is the mid 50s version of youthful drunk texts it seems! Just don't do it 😑

The starting line. Temps in the high 40s, low 50s. Dew points 30s and 40s. The weather decides to smile on us today.

@elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy Really? You only pay 22 an hour in your Memphis data center. a person can't survive, much less thrive on that. if that is what you pay people who actually work for you, what's your ideas for those who opt out?

@_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy All jobs will be optional. There will be universal high income.

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs