Sounds great!

You definitely must've been on cloud 9 afterwards.


How'd those legs feel when you peeled yourself outta the car? I know when I would ski my last day in Mammoth and then go straight to the car in the parking lot then a 7 hour drive back to SD, I would just fall out of the car. Probably not the healthiest thing for your body. But hey, we're runners - we focus on pushing it and then totally disregard anything healthy for our bodies!

Lol, at least general body-tweakage is distracting my brain from thinking about the legs. That's probably why they feel okay (when they shouldn't?). Was still slow-going from the car Sat. night nonetheless, fo' sho'.

Another interesting thing is that during the ~6+ weeks of training, I gained weight because my brain wants me to shovel food all the time when I'm doing a 3+ hour ride/week. I'm also a 1-2 beer/night every night guy. Got sick the week leading up, didn't drink at all, plus appetite got back to normal levels. Am about 5-6 pounds lighter than a week ago. Scary to think if I went 1-2 months with no beer what'd happen

You are such a champ Gramps, that's awesome. Can't believe all dude bailed on mile 98, cmon man!!

Are you in the best shape, or close to, of your life?

looool heyooo

GO PACK GO tho!

Lololol. Maybe we don't need to work out, just change the mirrors in our respective homes

I ran track & cross-country in college, so that was definitely the best shape I've ever been in. Mixed some lifting in back then as well (though our coach never showed us how to do proper squat technique, so pretty lucky none of us got injured there).

Played a ton of sports growing up that required running, but was never really able to motivate for any off-season training on my own (beyond a couple of days).

It took being in really good running/cardio shape for an extended stretch (college) to absolutely hate the contrasting feeling of walking up stairs huffing & puffing, etc. Once you get those benefits of being in shape + lay down the structural framework/experience of putting in consistent effort over a long period of time, and you have friends that do/have done the same, it gets wayyyyy easier IME.

I'll probably be that 60 year-old dude doing a few tris a year, and that 80 year-old guy walking 1 hour+ every day plus doing other exercise.

Progressing along in the freeroll challenge, just eclipsed 3k games, +$1,541 so far.



Would be fun to get a couple of deep MTT runs/FTs here in the last 2k games, but we'll see. I've been awful in MTTs so far, but have started to run hotter than the sun in 180s, so that helps.

Closing in on 500k VPPs, and have been crushing the equity pretty good so far this year in my normal games....while running >$110k below $EV. So....there's that.

Gross part is that it's pretty normal variance for the stakes I play.

$7 9-man hypers this year - I'm choosing to only look at/post happy pictures for the next day or two:

Has to be the prettiest picture of nasty run bad I've seen. Just hugging a nearly straight red line at a significant inclination. That in contrast to your regular stake at two orders of magnitude higher.

A little motivational video to get you through the doldrums:

Graph is motivating me to finish SNE quickly so i can move down to the 7s.

I bet if you were guaranteed that winrate that you would already be down there. I think just about everyone except HS crushers like Gramps would be.

ehhhhhh

There's some people who will grind $7-$100+ 9-max hypers at once. Think there's definitely something too that ($/hr with lower variance/stress) if you're not going for SNE.

There's definitely more $$ to be extracted in the $7s than what I'm doing, at least if you're not maxing your table count/playing too many game types to where you completely lose track of what's going on. Learning some of the higher volume regs would be very helpful as well, I've been pretty mentally lazy in that regard, for sure.

SNE rb is a helluva drug.

Seems $7s-$30s is the sweet spot. Nab ninjanova + $40k pre-rb, done.

pre or post rake? Gonna need a ruling

also im 0 for 2 so far

Gramps,

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...posed-1427120/

you're nominated to go to IoM...

Yeah, I just ended up declining the nomination. I hugely appreciate the nod, and there would be circumstances under which I'd go - but, this old man is pretty entirely out-of-touch with non-STT issues, and it would be a huge ramp up. To be honest, I even feel more out-of-touch with general STT issues than a year or two ago as well.

I actually do want to go to IOM and visit Stars HQ, so I'll just have to do UKIPT there or something - using Player Meetings for that objective would be wrong. Have a few promotional ideas, maybe someone there can pretend to listen for a few minutes to humor a Stars watch-owner.

I'd probably have another one of those beers.

oh man

That hurts my eyes as much as sippin's mammaltoe picture. You guys are leaving scars on my psyche.