@Dragonfly293 I saw three this morning while dropping the kids off at school
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🐝 Stu Bailey
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@_renatov I think that’s plenty doable based on your numbers. God speed, dude. I’ll be cheering you on
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@stubailey Aiming for < 3:40for my first. Took my 1/2 marathon PR and doubled the time + 20%.
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2025 PRs
5K: 21:05
1/2 Marathon: 1:34
Longest distance: 19 miles
2026:
5K: 20:00
1/2 marathon < 1:30
Longest distance: 26.2
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The BBC really needs to do much, much more with the excellent Sean Farrington #r4today
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@tomowenmorgan Two songs always get me:
1. Blackbird - The Beatles
2. One Day Like This - Elbow
(Though both have intensely personal reasons for making me blub)
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If you wanted to bring someone to tears with just one song, what would it be?
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Sir Andy Street is an excellent communicator. He needs an audience - even if it’s as a business commentator on the telly or radio #r4today
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Yesterday I ran a 5k in Zone 5 at 5:27/mi.
So today I ran 5 miles in Zone 1 at 8:26/mi.
Always follow up the hard days with an easy day (or 2 or 3).
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@ikodmart @runliftrunlift My advice: 1) consider getting David as a coach; 2) time on feet - do 4-6 hours slow (~130 bpm); 3) incorporate speed work (I like Norwegian protocol once a week)
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@runliftrunlift Hi David, i ran my best time for 21KM following your advice. Thank you so much. How can i improve this to 1hr 30 mins?
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If you want good health & to enjoy using your body, you need only a few hours of exercise every week
If you have big goals: run a BQ, be near the top of your AG, etc then you need to train a lot more than a few hours a week
Both are great. Just match your expectations accordingly.
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@sloaneranger89 @Alan_Couzens I’m not Alan but here’s what I think he’d recommend: consistent zone 1 training. Walking’s a great start. Now, to mix it up, you could try run:walk (Jeffing), cycling or swimming. It’s a volume game
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@Alan_Couzens Hey Alan, I’m 44 and I’ve been working my way up to 20k steps a day, as a way of building up general fitness (I’m not looking to compete in anything). Is there any general guidance as to what you’d reccomend to build upon that please?
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Doing ~20hrs of aerobic training each week.
You get really fit.
Best biohack around!
Gary Brecka@thegarybrecka
What’s the one biohack that changed your life the most?
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@Seymourpowell I've sent an email to hello@ and called your London office to no avail. I'd love to send you an agency brief for a piece of work (Lee Carroll & Jamie Woolgar were recommended by a colleague). You're not making it easy to give you a revenue-generating opp!
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@larryvc The ultimate paradox - we need to set goals to make us happy, but achieving those goals won't make us happy
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Love this. For those who reach the highest heights this world offers, what they often realize is that it doesn’t fulfill their deepest needs. This is because we weren’t designed to be fulfilled by this world.
Reminds me of C.S. Lewis:
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
Golf Digest@GolfDigest
Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard.
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@runliftrunlift So, here’s a question: my 11 year old son seems to have a natural talent for running. I’m not pushy at all, but I am tempted to teach him about stacking the easy miles. (If he starts now he’ll rack up an insane amount of miles by the time he’s older). Is that weird?!
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Starting to run in your late 30s-40s is a whole different ballgame than someone who started running in high school or college.
Accordingly, your expectations should line up with your training/sports background.
Don’t worry about anyone but yourself. Some runners might be your same age, but they’ve been in the game a long time, and have thousands of miles on their legs.
Wherever you are now, you still have a lot of room for improvement. Stay consistent and enjoy the ride 🏃🏼♂️
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@BrianAllenDC @Alan_Couzens @runliftrunlift @singhcredible Hi Brian. In a marathon training block I run 40 miles a week: 2 days easy (7 miles); 1 day hard (few miles easy and then a 6 x 4km); and 1 long (progressively longer up to 20 miles). Supplement with easy volume on zwift bike too.
Outside of that I run easy 4x a week
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@stubailey @Alan_Couzens @runliftrunlift @singhcredible What’s a typical run week look like for you, Stu?
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Our biggest problem is pacing.
We're just really bad at projecting the effort that we can sustain over very long timelines.
Part of it is ego.
Part of it is pressure.
The solution - shut the voices out, slow the paces down.
This applies to everything.
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@mrianleslie This. 1000 times over. What does he actually believe?
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Whether or not you think he was right to say it, it’s mad to back away from it. Just reinforces the perception he doesn’t know his own mind.
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
Easy to see why "strangers" line was written into Starmer's speech: it's the sentiment with which Reform UK voters most identify....
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@steverichards14 100%. It’s a noxious combination of lack of strategic depth and horrendous political comms.
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If Starmer had been serious about welfare reform he would have established a short modern Beveridge type inquiry with focus on benefits to work..then made the arguments arising from such a report.. and the detailed policies that come from the arguments ..instead we got Treasury led cuts.. Articles placed in Mail and Telegraph in Starmer’s name hailing cuts.. followed by good argument about work .. only for actual rushed plans to hit those in work ..now no space for much needed fundamental reform. Where is the strategic depth?
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@george_yarrow What sort of sea change in our political economy?
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"To be heard, we have to be honest." IMO, KB has no difficulties in ticking that box, but there is another prerequisite. "To be heard, you have to have something (with high salience to the electorate) to say." What's still missing is the exposition of a comprehensive 'turnaround' strategy for governance (the sort of 'sea change in Britain's political economy' that Thatcher's strategy advisers recommended in the late 1970s). It's all bits and pieces at the moment -- roughly feisty (a Good Thing), but unfocused and lacking coherence (not a Good Thing).
And I'll say it again: such a 'turnaround' strategy can be developed very quickly, but only if KB puts together a small strategy group that operates out-with the institutional mess that is the current Conservative Party (in the sort of way that Kate Bingham operated in respect of Covid vaccine procurement). Policy commissions and shadow cabinet discussions about the latest new-age ideas of management consultants and academics will not cut it.
PS The same advice is good for other party leaders.
Stephen Pollard@stephenpollard
Here's my latest @spectator column, 'Badenoch needs to be brutally honest with voters': "As things stand, the next election will be a fight between Labour and Reform. Neither party is capable of levelling with the public – which is a polite way of saying both lie with impunity and take the public for fools. There is surely a gap for a party and a leader which does something unusual and tells the truth. ...Focus groups and polls show that voters have yet to really form an impression of Badenoch, which sounds bad after she has been in the job for six months. But it actually presents an opportunity. The fates of William Hague and Ed Miliband show how easily voters can take against a party leader; Badenoch has the chance to carve out a political identity which resonates as the teller of unvarnished truths. That will not always seem the politically expedient option. There will be a political price to pay, for example, for pointing out that in the modern world the NHS simply cannot provide everyone with everything and that, wonderful as new medical technologies are, we need to examine how we fund healthcare. But the reward for being honest and open will be bigger. Imagine how refreshing it would be to have a leader and a party which was honest about the need to cut welfare and which said that vital increases in defence necessarily mean cuts elsewhere. I’m not naïve enough to think that being brutally honest with voters will always be a win. But at the very least, it would give the Conservatives a purpose – and respect. Neither of which they are close to having at the moment." spectator.co.uk/writer/stephen…
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@ejames_c Do you know of anyone who offers real training in Deliberate Innovation? I want guidance in DPIs and Situation Diagrams - I can't do it all on my own via trial & error
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Anyway, the framework around HOI is a LOT richer than you might think.
If you extend this out, for instance, you get a working definition of product market fit:
Read the full essay here: commoncog.com/the-heart-of-i…
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What makes a good salesperson good? There are many subskills, but one of the most important is ‘deal sense’.
That is: “can this person tell if a deal is going to close?” Some people have uncanny deal sense. Others are absolutely hopeless. What explains the difference?
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