You shouldn’t have any sloshing if you suck all the air out. I’m mentioning this because to my surprise, a lot of people, even experienced runners do not realize that iscan option, and were used to running with their water sloshing around as they run. :)

As a longtime Debian Stable user, I can attest that gaming on it works just fine, whether via Proton or natively.

It was rough at the first half year or so after Steam Linux client launched where system libraries were simply too old and one had to smuggle in libc from Ubuntu, but that got solved by the next Debian release, and it’s been smooth sailing ever since. :)

Of course, I wouldn’t recommend Debian for a gaming system for a newbie. It’s just what I’ve been using as my daily driver for decades, so I did not want to switch to something else just for something as unimportant as gaming.

Back in college, we had this huge LAN spanning hundreds of computers, and we had a central instance of a search engine that crawled all the Samba and FTP shares, so anyone could just look up whatever media or software they were looking for, and if the particular computer was online at the time (people do turn off their PCs sometimes, go figure :) ), download it.

Of course, I’m not sure if having unprotected SMB/FTP shares is something fitting into your idea of a local intranet, but it’s an option. The guys maintaining the crawler even put the code online, and it should still mostly work: https://github.com/fslts/lase

I just use the zones as preset on my Garmin watch. I don’t really care that much what percentages they are at exactly, for me it is enough that what the watch is showing me more or less matches my “feel” during a run.

I did a few months of doing weekend long runs mostly in Z2 according to my watch, and I did feel the improvement I wanted, and that is enough for me. To hell with exact percentages.

Your mileage may vary. :)

I’ll echo the others in saying don’t overdo it! Tendons and joints are the slowest to adapt to new load, and are the first to break if overstressed.

But congrats - you did good and you should feel good! :)

She also set a new female track record for Hardrock, so truly a stellar weekend for Courtney.

I was watching the live stream on and off throughout the weekend, and even went for my own little 30K run on Saturday morning, thinking of the fine men and women which at that same time were running at Hardrock.

Coincidentally, this was the first time Hardrock 100 has had a live coverage, thanks to Jamil at RunSteepGetHigh, and thanks to Starlink. And although the video feed was very choppy in most places, it was still a thrill watching the runners enter and leave the aid stations in real time!

I actually do this a lot in winter. You have to find a lamp that works for you (brightness, the feel on your head), and I’d recommend running like this only on routes you already know well.

Naturally the pace will be slower than in the daylight, unless you have no self-preservation instinct, but it’s a different kind of magic when the world shrinks to just you and the small bubble of light in front of you.

I would add a simple exercise of static single leg balancing with closed eyes. Great for ankle and calf strength, as well as overall balance.

It’s amazing how much we rely on eyesight for our balance.

I have my runs on Garmin Connect with “only me” visibility by default, and I “unlock” individual activities manually when I want to share a link to them. I am also not following anyone there - I basically ignore all the social elements of the app.

I’ve been toying with switching to a self-hosted alternative, but haven’t found a good enough one. The closest I found to what I’d be willing to use is https://github.com/SamR1/FitTrackee.

Same here. I keep shaking my head in disbelief when I read all this “you need this custom niche distro if you want nvidia without problems” posts, and then look at my totally uncustomized Debian Stable PC, on which I’ve been playing modern games for many years now. :)

Really, the only trouble I’ve had was not Nvidia related at all - in the very beginning when Steam Linux client was released, Debian had too old glibc, and I had to resort to LD_LIBRARY_PATH/LD_PRELOAD tricks with glibc snatched from an Ubuntu package. But next Debian release fixed even that, and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

I tried that back when I was only getting into running. If I recall correctly, I kept it up for a little over a week before I overloaded my achilles heel and had to stop running for a month. Since then, I’m only doing occasional shorter streaks, e.g. when on organized runners’ camp or retreats.

Running every second day is easier for logistics, especially the laundry! :)

You should worry, but not to extent that it would keep you from running completely.

You need to learn proper running style/technique, find shoes that work for you, and most importantly, pace yourself, depending on your fitness and weight. Don’t overdo it.

It’s worth it to find a good trainer in your area and start under a professional guidance - if only for a first few months.

Yep, Mastodon takes some effort to get going. You need to find people who are interesting for you yourself, in order to seed your feed with interesting stuff. And it goes much smoother if you also interact yourself, which is where many lurkers, used to Twitter and its algorithm feeding them content, hit a wall. It’s just a completely different world in there.

Indeed - you only have one set of lungs, you lose more by getting them dirty than you lose by not enjoying the outside temporarily.