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@AliBrownleetri Thanks for sharing.

It is my birthday today, so I allowed myself a completely self‑indulgent data analysis. I have had the “what is the hardest endurance sport” argument in so many changing rooms and cafes that I lost count years ago. Swimming feels psychologically hardest for me. Cycling feels highest risk. Running just feels brutally honest. So this time I tried to answer it with data. I pulled nearly a million sessions across nine endurance sports and looked at what each one does to the cardiovascular system, both per minute and per session. Here is what I found: - Every sport has a distinct heart‑rate “fingerprint”. Running is a tight, right‑shifted bell around 145 bpm. Walking and ski touring sit broader and lower. Downhill skiing is all peaks and troughs. - Running really is hard on the heart. It has the highest session average, peak HR, and sustained intensity ratio. - Walking’s “high” intensity ratio is a statistical trick. Low average, low peak, very flat sessions that only look hard on paper. - Downhill skiing has the biggest swings. Peaks rival outdoor cycling, but average HR sits near walking. That 47 bpm gap matches the feeling of short bursts and a lot of standing around. - Cross‑country skiing behaves like running at the top end and like cycling on average. Huge peaks, long gliding recoveries. - Indoor cycling is the purest steady effort after running. The sustained profile is similar in relative terms, but the absolute load is lower because seated cycling simply costs less than weight‑bearing running. Within the same person, running still wins. Among 1,480 people who both run and ride outside, 93% hit a higher fraction of their personal max HR when they run. Same body, same heart, different biomechanical demand. Then I changed the question. Because intensity is only part of the story and I recently cycled for 35 hours at a low Heart Rate, but it certainly felt pretty hard! Do you want to reward time on feet, or time in the red zone? Full research below.

@PetrLepulus @madokaleninist More like Mordor and its outer barrier of mountains.

@madokaleninist Oh yes, our beauty and our curse. We have our home strictly defined by nature and it can be both beatiful, but also binding. Like Shire of hobits. Cozy, but it's easy to keep narrowed views and minds locked inside.

@LifeLikeSport @ChrisMartzWX Erosion. And seeing rich boomer's homes disappear will always be funny.

@ChrisMartzWX UK East Coast is disappearing with houses dropping into the sea. On the South Coast we can see the effects over the years. Beaches getting smaller. Far more storms too. So by all means have a laugh, but on the coast not so funny.

The New York Times has reported that the east coast beaches may disappear in as little as 25 years from now. Just kidding; this was published in 1995.

@theiaincameron Best type of content here 👆

Did you know that Northumberland still has snow? Today I ventured on to The Cheviot to find England’s most northerly patch of old winter snow, hidden deep in one of the many hollows on the north side of the hill.

@Markj61 @Liv_Boeree @WSJ Whilst screaming loud enough to be considered cheating.

@Liv_Boeree @WSJ Win Wimbledon maybe? 😂😂😂

Podcasting is dominated by men. Maria Sharapova wants to offer some counterprogramming. The tennis star’s new podcast, “Pretty Tough,” debuts on April 22 as an alternative to what has become known as the manosphere. It aims to highlight ambitious women. on.wsj.com/4sFMJgo

@stevemagness Are robots governed by the same rules as us mortals? I for one swear allegiance to our future runbot overlords.

No record. The is a DQ. The robot bonked and got assistance from the crowd. Sorry no exceptions to the rules for Mr. Robot.

@agcmtweets @EugenePerel Guky has done jack shite since the day he was crowned. Worthless, like Dong. If Javo keeps winning and reaches then remains in the 2820-2830 elo range, Carlsen might smell blood.

@EugenePerel Gukesh had a much more impressive run to his world championship than Sindarov if Carlsen was not keen then he'll not be after this.

Let’s assume Sindarov beats Gukesh. Carlsen vs Sindarov match would epic. I hope Magnus can teach the youngster a thing or two about Capablanca and Botvinnik.

@kanye_Blixsxx @bluewmist Why do you need so many to goon?

@bluewmist This btw

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%?

@MikeSmith71md @0openscience0 @SkylineReport @grok Mikey, your buffoon in chief praised Allah on Easter.

@0openscience0 @SkylineReport @grok Are you stupid?

Everyone, run for your lives. The shit is about to hit the fan. Trump has gone insane. Forty-seven Truth posts in under an hour. The guy has lost it. Hopefully he won’t accidentally find the red button… or is that what he’s looking at right now?

@soami_m17 He's world #9

@agadmator That's cool. Even Alireza was the youngest to go past 2800. Now ? Nowhere to be seen. Sad.

History has been made today. At just 14 years old, Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş crosses 2700 threshold on live ratings, becoming the youngest player in the history of chess to do so. A monumental achievement for Yağız and a proud day for Türkiye. 🇹🇷

@GamewithDave Stunts

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@EternalYou37239 @mamboitaliano__ wow, it's really branched out from main Italian.

@BatLeopardX @mamboitaliano__ Romanesco.

That viral Italian beach interview from 2010 near Rome 🇮🇹 Question: why does 2010 already feel like a whole different century?

@2025_r2d2 @Glenn_Diesen It is equality. Women, however, are just a bit more equal.

@Glenn_Diesen No more feminism and equally? Where are the european feminists screaming about equal pay and equal right?

Zelensky wants Ukrainian men expelled from Europe and sent to the trenches. Merz: "It is crucial that these men are there to help their country". This is what "pro-Ukrainian" means in Europe: No diplomacy & fight to the last Ukrainian to weaken Russia as a strategic rival

@Hans_1966 @Glenn_Diesen Always has been. More plebeian wenches for the rich.

@Glenn_Diesen Actually merz meant: "It is crucial that these men are there to help their country to destroy Russia and itself." he deliberately didn't say everything.

@anurag_ce @KobeissiLetter

@KobeissiLetter ⚡️Trump is not just a President of USA 🇺🇸 he is also a share market manipulator 😂

BREAKING: JP Morgan, $JPM, reports a record $11.6 billion in trading revenue in the first quarter of 2026 as traders cashed-in on Iran War volatility. The bank posted its second-best quarter in history, generating $16.5 billion in profit in Q1 2026.

@StormBreeze14 @owroot And people will be nostalgic in 2055 of the dumb old smartphones of 2026, when we'll connect through smart glasses, robots and telekinesis.

@owroot The smart phone changed everything, nothing started to feel real anymore after that.

Really late 90s and really early 2000s are interesting because they feel kind of like yesterday and really modern but there aren’t really cellphones around like a timeline where smartphones never were created.

@TheKawaiiOD @JosephSomsel @blanknamedc @KarolineGosling This is Muskian twitter, we can analyse and spit truths without being canceled 🫡. Ok there are way too many braindead racists here but there has to be a downside.

@JosephSomsel @blanknamedc @KarolineGosling Sounds like you thought about this very analytically almost like how people do with dog breeds. Interesting.

Which country produces the best wife material women in your opinion? When you factor in values, beauty, how gracefully they age, how they treat men, how feminine they are etc I am from Germany and it is definitely not here.. most women here all dress and act like men 😂

@PoobahTheCat @KarolineGosling It's an ad, it's a bunch of lies. Japanese women's libido goes negative and remains there for life once they've had a baby.

@KarolineGosling When I was a boy, the science fiction magazines all had ads in the back stating "Japanese women make wonderful wives." We need to bring back that sort of thing.

@LyAs4prez @zss281085 @RealEmirHan

@zss281085 @RealEmirHan Ummm yeah

Scarlett Johansson thinks Black Widow in Iron Man 2 was too “sexualized” “It was really fun and had a lot of great moments in it, but the character is so sexualised, you know? Really talked about like she’s a piece of something, like a possession – like a piece of a**