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@XcCris It's just baking soda.....I take it in pill form, swallow it, and no taste but all the effects.

I tried bicarb for the first time this morning. First impressions. YUCK.

@RunBlogRun Cool.... Typo in your link.... bookofeastbay.com

Remember the Eastbay catalog? Here’s the story of how Art Jeudes and Rick Gering took $4k and 400 pairs of track spikes and built a business that preceded online sales! The book is #thebookofeastbay, at thenookofeastbay.com! All profits will be donated! Read the prologue on the site!

@AndreAMAdeSousa @stevemagness Full rec so about 60s.

@stevemagness What's the recommended rest / jog duration between each set of strides?

The one 'workout' that is often used by runners that is almost never mentioned in the health space: strides. It's simple. It's not hard. Just adding 6 to 10 x 15 seconds at a faster but controlled pace to the end of your run can make a big difference.

@stevemagness Be sure to make it an odd number of striders. Nothing upsets Strava people more than an odd number of reps.

@BBCSport It's also because it's free to enter the lottery. Boston , NYC and others automatically charge your card if you are selected. London tells you if you are in then let's you decide to register. My 3 friends and I entered London, only if at least 3 of us get in, then we'll do it.

Incredible numbers! 👏👏 It is the first time that more than a million applications from the UK alone have been submitted!

@aakashgupta I literally applied for a job last year to Workday itself for a managerial IT role. Applied on Friday afternoon, received the rejection on Monday at 1:46am. Count me in if there's a class action.

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs. He was rejected from every single one. Several rejections came at 1am, within minutes of submitting. He just became the lead plaintiff in the largest AI lawsuit ever certified. May 2025, Judge Rita Lin granted preliminary certification of a nationwide ADEA collective in Mobley v. Workday. Workday's own court filings represent that 1.1 billion job applications were rejected through its software in the relevant period. The court discussed potential class size in the hundreds of millions. If you're over 40 and you applied to a Fortune 500 in the last 7 years, your application was probably processed by Workday. You may be in the class. The legal precedent matters more than the headline number. For decades, the vendor screening applicants for an employer was not directly liable under Title VII. The employer was the only defendant. In July 2024, Judge Lin ruled the AI vendor itself qualifies as an "agent" of the employer and can be sued directly. First time. The "we're just the tools" defense evaporated in a single ruling. Same precedent now extends to every HR tech AI vendor in the pipeline. Greenhouse. Eightfold. HireVue. Paradox. None of it is priced into any of their valuations. Combine that with the rest of 2024. Air Canada lost in February for $812 because its chatbot hallucinated a refund policy, killing the chatbot-as-separate-entity defense. iTutorGroup paid $365K to the EEOC, confirming the algorithm doing the discriminating moves liability nowhere. Gemini cost Alphabet roughly $90B in market cap in days for one weekend of bad image generation. Every legal shield around AI in production got tested in court and lost. The AI PMs interviewing for foundation model roles can recite all four by month. Most engineers shipping AI at work cannot.

@Brady_H I wait until 7.5 or about 60secs before whatever aid station is right around there. You want to take most gels with liquid. Plus 10k is a but too early for me as I really want the energy to kick in at mile 10-11 and get me over that last push to the finish.

You should take 1 energy gel during a half marathon. At 10k.

@brennanjp In Miami, check out My Olympic Coach. instagram.com/myolympiccoach…

for as popular as run clubs are, I'm surprised there aren't more *track* clubs. more variety in workouts, more time to socialize (between intervals), way easier to compete. running for distance always falls flat for me due to boredom/nagging injuries but I could see myself getting really into competing with myself (and others) for time at shorter distances. someone please start this in Miami!

@allthesmokeprod Maybe that's why he was drafted during a Taco Bell commercial?!

Nikola Jokic got signed without a SINGLE scout seeing him 👀 No film. No scouting. Just two insane stat lines that changed basketball history 🤯

@d9monti @usatf @WorldAthletics Hey @Predamame there's a championship race this Saturday. I know you follow running closely so but I don't want you to be surprised Saturday morning when you open Twitter.

Loaded women's field for the @usatf 5K Championships in Indianapolis on Saturday. Top two finishers qualify for the national team for the @WorldAthletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen in September. #USA5KChamps

@timjue You know you can just buy a fully refundable ticket, enter and meet your friends, then get the refund. Maybe you even buy a fully refundable international first class ticket, use the lounge while waiting.

San Francisco International Airport debuts its visitor pass program for people who want to enter post-security without an airline ticket. It’s called SFO Gate Explorer. Other U.S. airports have similar programs. With Gate Explorer access, you can greet friends and family on domestic arrivals, walk loved ones to their gates, grab a bite or shop post-security, watch planes take off and land, or join special airport events—all without flying. A few important rules: this pass is for personal use only (no business or commercial activity), and meeting international arrivals isn’t allowed—you’ll need to meet them in the International Terminal Arrivals Hall instead. All participants, including minors, must complete a TSA background check, and everyone must follow standard airport security rules. Minors under 18 must stay with an approved adult at all times. Visitors need to plan ahead, review TSA guidelines, apply in advance on the SFO website, and enjoy a unique behind-the-scenes airport experience at SFO.

🥇History made live on the BBC!🥇 The favourite moment of my broadcasting career - Kenya's Sabastian Sawe broke the 'impossible' sub 2 hour barrier at @LondonMarathon. I was live with @MartineBBC on @BBCNews & @BBCWorld talking about Tigst Assefa's record when Sawe flew past!🇰🇪

@olddiesel You keep your cars for 500k miles? I want as fast as possible charging because after about 100-120k miles I don't care, in buying something new.

To me where a slow charging EV is potentially acceptable is where you get a longer lifespan and better reliability as a result. I'd be happy to accept a 25 min charge time if it meant a 500,000 mile lifespan as a result.

@CUBuffsTrack Are you sure it's on Sunday the 3rd? I think you guys will be a day late for the meet. Supposed to be on Saturday the 2nd. #skobuffs

@mikerodak Nigeria - 1 !!

Most picks by school, 2026 NFL draft: Ohio State - 11 Alabama - 10 Texas A&M - 10 Clemson - 9 Miami - 9 Texas Tech - 9 Georgia - 8 Indiana - 8 Penn State - 8 Florida - 7 Iowa - 7 LSU - 7 Oklahoma - 7 Oregon - 7 Washington - 7 Michigan - 6 Missouri - 6 Notre Dame - 6 Texas - 6 Auburn - 5 Tennessee - 5

True or False. Uga is the best live mascot in college football.

@BldrCOSheriff Is the watch fried? Many watches now have a map directly on them. You could pull up the map and see the starting point to maybe narrow down where she lives.

Please help us identify this woman. Update as of 4/10/26 at 4:45 p.m.   She is believed to be 20–30 years old, approximately 5’5”, 120 lbs, with auburn hair. She has three butterfly tattoos on her right upper arm and was last seen wearing a green running shirt, black running shorts with white stripes, a dark windbreaker-style jacket, and white/pink Saucony running shoes. She was also using Beats earbuds.   If you recognize this description, have door camera footage from the area, or have a loved one matching this description you have not been able to contact, please call the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office at 303-441-4444

@d9monti @EuroAthletics @usatf @nyrr @LondonMarathon @bolderboulder @ChiMarathon @WMMajors @TimHutchings1 @AthleticsWeekly I thought Peachtree road race 10k was larger than Bolder Boulder?

The 10 largest road races in the world in 2025 in terms of finishers. Five were marathons.

@StephenFleming United has this exact thing in Fort Collins down to Denver. Bus drops you after security. The downside is the bus is really limited so it's hard to find a convenient time.

There may be a new business model lurking here. Imagine an FAA-supervised “remote terminal” in Alpharetta, Georgia. Park for free, check your bag, go through security, and you’re in the TSA-controlled system. A bus takes you to Hartsfield-Jackson. You pay… I dunno. Eighty bucks round trip?

@stevemagness Watch the video of the Duke coach, he's telling and gesturing to the team to advance the ball and not hold on to it.

With 10 seconds left, Duke was up 2 with the ball. All they had to do was hold the ball. They passed. And one was deflected. A clutch three and UCONN wins. But...why throw the pass? Under pressure, our brain betrays us. Part of it goes offline. It's one of the cruel things in all of sport: First, some context on how insane this was. Duke led by 19. Number one seeds were 134-0 all time when leading by 15+ at halftime in the NCAA tournament. 134-0. Braylon Mullins, the freshman who hit the 35-footer with 0.4 seconds left, was 0-for-4 from three before that shot. Nothing about what happened should have happened. We tell athletes to "rise to the occasion." That's a lie. Under extreme pressure, you don't rise to anything. You fall to your defaults. The latest neuroscience explains why: When pressure spikes, your prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning, decision-making, and overriding impulse, starts to go offline. Stress hormones like norepinephrine and dopamine flood the system. At moderate levels, they help you focus and lock-in. But past a threshold, the PFC starts to shut down. Attention flips from thoughtful "top-down" control to "bottom-up" control, where whatever stimulus is in front of you captures your attention. It's less thinking and planning and more impulsive reacting. Hartogsveld and colleagues tested this in 2020. They stressed participants out and measured whether they could override trained habits when the situation changed. Stressed participants committed significantly more "slips of action," performing the trained habit even when it was no longer the correct response. Stress made them default to what they'd practiced most. It's the cruel paradox of choking. Your most practiced behaviors take over precisely when the situation demands something different. Duke needed to do nothing. Literally hold the ball. But everything a basketball player has ever practiced is telling them to make a play. In this situation, get past midcourt to avoid the backcourt violation. When our PFC is off-line, we lose that impulse control to tell us, wait a minute, context demands something different! Research shows that we often try to compensate for the pressure by trying harder. We start forcing things or trying to micromanage the situation to deal with losing a bit of control. Inevitably, this backfires. So you get this terrible contradiction. The PFC goes offline and you lose top-down control. But whatever executive resources remain get directed at the wrong thing, overmonitoring your own movements. You start consciously controlling things that should be running on autopilot, and the whole system jams. Don't believe me, try to do simple math when you are moderately stressed or fatigued, such as mile 15 of a marathon or the 6th 400m repeat of the workout? Any runner will tell you, it's hard to do 26 minus 15... Now, add the pressure of millions watching, and see how your brain works. There's no perfect solution. You've got to feel for the Duke kids. This close and have it ripped away. But that's why when preparing for a high pressure situation there are a few solutions. 1. Inoculate Yourself Train in environments that simulate pressure as best you can. Up the ante, use exercise as a stressor to challenge decision making. Visualize it. Michael Phelps visualized a "problem tape" of what to do if it went wrong. Create simple If...Then scenarios. A mental playbook of sorts, like a QB that knows to dump it to the RB if pressure comes. 2. Copy Pilots. They have checklists and slogans for emergencies (Aviate-Navigate-Communicate). It simplifies the priorities directing them what to focus on and what actions to take when their brain isn't working. Tell your brain where to focus and what action to take. Coaches need to make it simple and explicit. When the pressure is on, treat your athletes like a toddler. Because that's how their brain is kind of working...