surely_not_a_bot

My personal recommendation is to be careful with the training. Stay close to the recommendations. If you go much longer than asked for (especially in speed, but also in time/distance) you might be doing yourself an disservice. There's a certain growth curve for all the systems you're improving, and if you shoot past that you'll be objectively degrading other systems.

I have been running for a while. I talk so often about how much I like running that I think that prompted my coworkers to start running as well. They're now running regularly and getting into some races.

I am pretty well trained, so I can go faster and longer than any of them. But they're all about 20 years younger than me. I am very conflicted about the fact that in just 6 months or so they'll be passing me - running faster and likely longer. I'm happy/proud for them, for sure, but also a bit hurt if I'm being honest.

I'm not competitive against other people so I don't care in that sense, it's just that improving is so hard for me at this level. It's hard to reach one's limits I suppose.

Training for a 5k. I prefer longer distances, but using this as a learning exercise.

Not sure about Canada fires, but everything else is just having the right gear. More layers, the right material, the right kind of gear, etc, makes the run 100% fine. I've been running 6 days out of each week for the past couple of months in NYC (including in storm/cold days; we've had shitty weather at down to ~15F) and I haven't missed a day due to weather reasons.

Some problems are harder and might require niche equipment. For example, if your roads are covered in ice, you need trail run shoes with spikes and a place where that can work, like dirt instead of asphalt. But those are the outliers.

But also this for balance:

A Generation Lost In The Bazaar https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

I honestly read this every year. There are some deep lessons there that are so important for software and product development in general. It gets better every time I read it.

In this thread: people bending over backwards to defend their insane, non-logical unit of measurement