Hejsan! Jag är amerikan men bodde jag i Sverige några år sedan. Tack så mycket för dina råd. Det kan var lättare i Sverige för sådana saker, tror jag.

I mean I could just spray a hose up there, couldn’t I?

We had the roof replaced two years ago. I believe they redid all the flashing at that point. So there’s a chance this could be old? If the leak is resolved, which I’ll verify, do we have to do anything to the wood or are we good?

Pinback’s second album, Blue Screen Life. I even bought high quality headphones at the stereo shop next to the music store just to commemorate the occasion.

The racing season is over for me and now I’ll spend the rest of the year building up miles as I try to hit my goal distance for the 2023. I’m trying not to lose any of the gains from this year by maintaining two speed workouts per week while also increasing mileage. The objective is to avoid injury by doing shorter speed working and slowing way down on the easy miles.

What did you get?

This is why I avoid other sports. Or hobbies. Or relationships. Or proper meals. Can’t get distracted!

That’s fun.

I’m so square I didn’t even know that 196 went back to Reddit.

Thank you.

Months after joining I still cannot decipher the rule thing. Can you please tell me?

Yesterday I ran a local 10 mile race that I have been participating in every fall since 2018 (except 2020). 5 years ago I was running at about 90 minutes, but I’ve been getting quicker every year. This time I managed to beat 70 minutes with a 6:58/mile pace. I had hoped to keep every mile under 7:00, but I couldn’t do it. No complaints, though. At my age (upper forties), I’m thrilled to be able to get out and continue to improve at all. Having now finished my last considerable race of the season, now is the time of year where I try to review, slow down, add some easy miles, and let my body heal from a ton of spring and summer training.

Ok cool. That seems doable. Part of what I’m thinking about is injury avoidance as much as motivation.

Oh that’s interesting. I’ve been thinking about trying to build something that operates at a higher level than workout planning. Something that could tell you the benefit of committing to any activity. For example I think people might be more motivated to get out and run “today” if they knew that their own running history would predict that NOT running on X day would lead to a long-term decline in activity. I wonder if something like that would be more useful to you during those less ambitious periods.

This is the first I’ve heard of it. Do you like it?

I know it’s for advertising but there’s a paranoid little corner of my mind that imagines insurance companies paying for some of these, uh, “user insights.”