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god i'm borderline overweight, 24.4.

there was an op/ed recently in the NYT about how people being overweight doesn't increase morbidity when you look at population-wide data. but then again if i'm almost overweight and chris is overweight by the most widely-accepted metric, then maybe the problem is that the metric is worthless.

That sucks man, our lab passed away this summer at age 15. I use the gym as a retreat, music up and refuse to think anything negative.

thanks chris. i use the gym that way, too, but from time to time whatever is affecting me just has the effect of deadening me or killing motivation. it's always temporary, i'll be back on the horse tonight.

fucking emotional catharsis, this song. maxent, give it a listen if you're not already familiar with LCD Soundsystem.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHLeXxfNu0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHLeXxfNu0</a>

i wonder if my work capacity is just awful. i never get 30 jumps in because by that point performance has dropped off so much that it doesn't count as ME work anymore.

At this point, on TVS, you're Dreyth on adarq.org

the player fred smoot called the most talented he ever played with. RIP.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGAcGlHTLXA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGAcGlHTLXA</a>

this is my argument with people who say bolt could have been faster with better training or more dedication, or that randy moss would have been a better WR if he'd smoked less weed, or whatever. everyone is different, and when someone is the best ever at what they do -- or even very elite -- it's hard to believe that doing things differently would have improved their results. usain bolt is the fastest 100m runner of all time by more than a tenth of a second! randy moss was completely uncoverable for years!

if this dude can make four olympic teams with 70 miles a week, and when he tried to run more got hurt, then who's to say that if he'd had more driven coaching he wouldn't have broken down in his early 20s and never competed at an international level? counterfactuals are all problematic; counterfactuals second-guessing success more so than most.