Listening to your body isn't just a cliche. It's a skill.

The better our ability to read our internal signals, the better our performance and decision making, as well as lower anxiety.

When there's a disconnection, the opposite occurs.
In running, the better you're able to sync internal signals of effort and fatigue, the better you are at pacing to maximize performance.

In stock traders, a better ability to read inner signals predicted profitability: nature.com/articles/srep3…
In everyday life, research suggests that a large difference between perceived and actual ability to listen to your body's inner signals predicts more anxiety

A dysfunction in this ability, called interoception, is linked to a slew of mental health issues: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
The good news is it's trainable. If you're an endurance athlete, you know this. You've learned to distinguish what different sensations of pain and fatigue mean. What's normal, and what could mean injury or worse.

The same applies to our everyday life. Learn to listen.

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26 May
So after the Lance Armstrong documentary, let's talk about why the "Well everyone was doing it" excuse to justify Lance's performance falls flat.

A brief thread.
Doping impacts everyone differently. Even something like EPO. You can be a very high responder and a low responder. So for example, if you were naturally blessed with lots of Red Blood Cells, you might not have as big of a response as someone who that is his 'weak point.'
So when you say "Lance would have won anyway" you're wrong. We don't know that. Lance appears to be a high responder to EPO and other drugs.

When you get in a war of doping, you get in a war of who has baseline talent AND responds really well to the drugs...
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8 May
Let me tell you a story that brings a bit of humanity and coming together during a Pandemic. Not exactly to save lives, but close enough...

So here we go... Our neighbor has 8, maybe 9, possibly 10 cats... Oh, and there's a special guest or two...
For the past several years, we haven't given them much notice.

They'd go inside, spend some time outside. Our dog Willie gave them attention...a side-eye during every walk, and an attempt to catch us by surprise and dart after them every once in a while...
About 3 months ago, we noticed they were outside, all the time. And that there were a food and water bottle on the outside of her fence. That was a bit strange.
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7 Mar
The Coronavirus- Don't panic but be prepared.

A few thoughts:
The chart is why we need to be proactive. Flatten the curve. Spread out cases so that Hospitals and infrastructure don't get overwhelmed.

If the spread is too quick, we don't have the beds/supplies to handle it
So why are events being canceled? Because if this thing gets to be community spread, the risks go up significantly. Yes, young people might be alright, but then they act as carriers, especially if symptoms are mild and they don't get tested (or there aren't enough tests).
They then spread it wider, and vulnerable populations get it, and deaths increase. It's not just the old, but the immune-compromised as well. The wider it spreads, the more it infiltrates these populations.
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8 Nov 19
In 2011-2012, I witnessed many instances that confirm @runmarycain and @yoderbegley's accounts. It was the norm. It was part of the culture. It was abhorrent.

Change doesn't occur unless it comes to light, here are some of those instances (Thread)
In 2012, I sat in a boardroom with Alberto Salazar and the team sports psychologist, Darren Treasure. We were discussing the performance of an athlete who had just run at a world championship. She’d performed well for herself, beating athletes with much faster personal bests.
That didn’t matter to Salazar. “Her butt is so big, she can barely lift her knees,” was the comment that stung. I countered by showing him the athlete's body fat testing results that we’d had done in a performance lab shortly before.
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14 Oct 19
Here's what people are missing on the "Shoe, pacing, drafting, etc." debate

No one is taking away from Kipchoge and others. No one is saying that's why he runs fast. The speculation is on how he (and Kosgei, Bekele, etc) made a significant jump in a short period of time.(Thread)
Look at Kipchoge, largely in the 2:03-2:04 range. Then drops to 2:00:25 (non-record paced), 2:01:39, and 1:59:41. Same with Bekele, Same with Kosgei (2:18--> 2:14).

What people are looking at is why the jump in performance.
It is very hard for someone to take minutes off their PR when you are the very best in the world.

Where did that drop come from? Based on what we know, A large part is shoe technology, some part draft/pacing, and a very small part optimizing other things (fueling, etc.)
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12 Oct 19
A few thoughts on @EliudKipchoge's performance.

It's hard to get across how fast a sub 2hr marathon is. 4:33 mile pace.

But what does that mean? An NCAA All-American distance runner would struggle to keep up with him for 6 miles of the 26.2.
Think about that in terms of other sports. It's as if the best college football player is not even a quarter as good as an NFL star.

It's hard to get across how quick that is to the lay person.
Lots of people are going to report "People thought the sub 2 hour marathon was impossible!"

That's not true. Experts thought it would be ~20years until we reached that point. No one thought it couldn't be done, or any of that nonsense.

We don't need hyperbole for this.
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