You set the bar pretty high for your first race.

One way to send money without really sending “money” is to give them gift cards for the local grocery store. Everyone needs groceries and it often has more of a free gift feel than a charity case feel to it. You could even pass it off as if it’s something you won or received and you’re just passing it along.

I retire my shoes at 500km. I figure $100 a few times a year is a small price to pay to prevent injury. To paraphrase Death Becomes Her: take care of your feet. You’re going to be together for a long time.

I went to a podiatrist last year because I thought I had a stress fracture (it felt like I was walking on a rubber ball), but after being x-rayed I was told it was metatarsalgia and what I was feeling was inflammation. I got some inserts for my shoes, eased up on the running for a bit, and took some ibuprofen. Earlier this year I ran my second marathon and I signed up for my third next spring. Now I only need ibuprofen when it flares up which is mostly when I get to peak running weeks in my training plan. Running is not out of the question but definitely listen to your body when it tries to tell you that you are overdoing it.

Have you tried a physical outlet for these emotions? Hit the gym, or put on some headphones and go for a long run. Running can be very meditative and you can do it pretty much anywhere.

Studies show cases of rhabdomyolysis are on the increase over the past few years. The unfortunate thing is it’s completely preventable with a well thought-out workout plan and sufficient hydration.

I recommend going with the OpenRun Pro if you’re going to buy some. I have both the OpenRun Pro and the less expensive OpenMove, and the OpenRun is more comfortable and has better sound quality.

I’m a bigger guy (over 200 pounds) who runs marathons so my concern is the cushioning and the impact on my feet. I put a 500 km limit on my running shoes, after that they graduate to walking shoes or general gym shoes. My go-to are Asics, and I wait until a new model comes out and then buy last season’s shoes at a discount, anywhere from $60-$110 for a pair depending on what color I want.

This is exactly what I do. It lends itself to something like ‘prefix_specific-info_version’ which is both sortable and easy to read.

Seems like if the UK government doesn’t want them sold to a foreign party then the UK government should purchase them and keep them safe.

I’ve got a Eufy RoboVac 30 and until reading this post it didn’t even occur to me to see of there’s an app. Turns out there is, but we’ve never used it and never connected it to our wifi. We just hit the button to turn it on and it works just fine. It came with a remote that we can use to set a schedule but as far as I know it has no way to call home.

I think what you’re looking for is Standard of Living. The economy may be doing well but the standard of living is stagnant or going down for many.

“If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?” -RuPaul

Literally everything is

Drag queens have the best names. My favorite from this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race is Amanda Tori Meating.

Any talent Twitter once had jumped ship a long time ago

I thought US Gov had their own email systems. When did they start moving officials’ mailboxes to Microsoft?

I got an XPS 15 last year, running Kubuntu and I love it except for one design flaw. The wifi card will randomly disappear from the hardware inventory and the only thing that fixes it is a reboot. It’s a $20 replacement part that should be user-replaceable… except for the fact that they soldered it to the motherboard for some inexplicable reason. So I’m stuck using a USB dongle wifi chip. But otherwise it’s great (even plays Baldurs Gate 3 pretty well since the latest hotfixes).

Nope. Which is good because I hate snaps. A media player that can’t play nfs-mounted media or a browser that can’t read my remote KeePass file are just useless to me.

I’ve been using Kubuntu on my main laptop for a few years now, and I really enjoy having an environment that just works, doesn’t get in my way, and I don’t have to think about. That’s just the way it should be.