Anyone got hyper-reactive vagal reflexes? If you do I know the feeling well and it's pretty intense. Had it a few times in the past from breaking fingers, severing tendons in my hand and also from standing up quickly and running upstairs with alcohol in my system 🥴🫀 Onlookers would think "Look at that wimp" but the effects of plummeted blood pressure, overwhelming sickness and dizziness emanating from the gut area is x10 worse than the injury pain and you can't just suck it up mentally or use willpower, it's intense for about 10 minutes until everything stabilises. Maybe once you're aware of what it's all about you'll be less susceptible or at least try to counter it before it kicks in by laying down and elevating your legs etc, Wim Hof claims you can control your vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system with breathing, cold exposure and the mind. It's like your body is a Windows OS and the screen just went blue. #physiology #biology #health #mind

Maybe people would think this was shuffling or glorified walking but it was about keeping the HR low, getting some miles in and staying low aerobic, 134bpm avg over 17 miles seemed like an achievement for me and the max during the run was 145bpm on inclines or darting across the road when there's a gap in the traffic and I needed to cross. Average cadence was 167spm but it began to feel a bit forced trying to keep it over 165 at a slower pace and started to feel it a bit in the achilles, soleus and plantar structures, maybe during longer easy runs I should probably let my spm settle more 160-165spm especially later on rather than forcing it higher just to appease the watch. My cadence scales ok when I go faster. #exercise #running #runstr

Tempo 🏃 15 mins light aerobic running 10 mins at 7:41 mins/mile pace 2 mins jog 10 mins at 7:25 mins/mile pace. Haven't tried setting a 5k time yet but Garmin captured a new pr of 24:57 mins from this session. #exercise #running #runstr

Vandana Shiva ragging on 'Billy G' aka DJ Eugenix 😂

Are my easy runs too slow? Sun, Mon Tues,140 -> 136 -> 132bpm ♥️ averages, 171spm avg today 👟 Still trying to dial in this zone 2 stuff. #exercise #running #runstr

A bit frustrating, ego killing and feelings of starting again from scratch but most runs are now shorter and slower, the watch is set to only display 2 data feeds while out - HR & Cadence. Averages on runs have gone from: 2-3hr to 1hr 9.5-10 min/mile pace to 11 150-160 bpm to 136bpm 158spm to 167spm The willingness was there but not the aerobic development for running. #exercise #running #runstr

Burning coal and drinking alcohol. 🖕The New World Order

Scraped together enough offcuts and scraps of timber to knock up a step up box 🦵🏋️ A bit rough but it's only a box to stand on in the garage, some of the bits were just rough sawn timber and none of it got ran through a planer because I don't have one. I've got a Dewalt mitre saw and Dewalt tablesaw - it might only be a smaller jobsite saw but it's a cracking machine once it's all set up right and it has a rack and pinion fence so it's really accurate. Had looked at the DW735 planer but hardly anyone sells them in the UK and the ones that are available are about £1200 which is crazy when you can buy them in the US for $600-$700, typical rip off Britain! B&Q's plywood is the nastiest shit you can buy, doesn't matter how you cut it, even if you used a really high tooth count blade, a melamine blade or did a light score cut first it would still splinter because the surface layer is painfully thin and probably hardly glued but at the end of the day it's considered construction grade stuff, if you want something sandable you'd have to buy furniture grade ply, if you tried to sand this stuff you'd go through the face layer. Trying to do stuff in a few square metres of garage is a ballache tbh and a Henry hoover doesn't really cut when it comes to dust and chips, everywhere soon turns into a bomb site, did look into a big class M shop vac and cyclone combo which would be a big upgrade but proper shop space would be the solution where you could at least leave each piece of machinery set up in it's place rather than climbing over stuff and moving it around. If money, space and 3 phase electrics were no barrier I'd go ham and get a Martin T32 planer thicknesser, T54 surface planer, T27 spindle moulder and T66 sliding panel saw, might as well throw in Graule QNF trencher and Graule ZS radial arm saw as well 🇩🇪🛠️📐

After my uncle and grandmother had both passed we eventually had to clear my grandmother's property. Down the garden was a garage and some outbuildings that my grandfather had built and it was like a time capsule down there, he'd been dead since before I was even born. After WW2 he did general building work and joinery, that old manual morticer must've pre-dated him though. If I'd have had shop space the Multico planer thicknesser could've been cleaned up and used, he'd had it from new and the original invoice listed the sliding tenon/shoulder attachment and mortice attachment, I didn't even know you could cut mortices with a planer thicknesser but it was a separate table and morticer that bolted to the side and was powered via the planer motor rather than the planer blades playing any part in the operation. Old school dudes liked their attachments ~think ShopSmith. Everything got cleared eventually, some stuff went in a big skip, anything unwanted that was metal got put out for scrap, some stuff was sold on Ebay, a bloke came for the rusty old manual morticer and said he was going to make a table out of it, I didn't really need any of it and neither would I have had anywhere to put it but I did salvage an old Parkinson Model F vice that has a screw disengage like a half nut on a lathe carriage, I've got a Yost bolted to a 10mm thick steeltop workbench but still use the old vice for other stuff. #tools #woodwork

Went out in the rain again (🇬🇧☔) on a side road but my Patagonia Storm Racer jacket feels light and not restrictive. 1.5 mile shuffle warm up then x9 20 second intervals with 2 mins walk/shuffle in between. They felt a bit forced tbh, manually press lap on the watch > panic acceleration > not relaxed probably poor form > declerating while reaching for the watch to stop the lap. Had a shuffle back home and then had another go down the road, 0:30.08 seconds, 0.11 miles, 4:32 min/mile pace which was better than before, felt more relaxed and floaty. What I really need to work on is that tempo stuff as I ran a 7:05 min/mile the other week but don't have the fitness/conditioning/experience to hold that over a 5k. #exercise #running #runstr

According to Garmin I'm still not in zone 2 but I've been doing these slow pace runs to try and get my HR down. The terrain wasn't steep but even slight inclines start pushing the HR up, also been trying to shorten stride length and increase cadence. #exercise #running #runstr

We all know self custody is the way to go, not your keys - not your coins BUT wtf is wrong with these people? Most western governments seem hell bent on driving wealth and innovation away from their countries.

Modern bicycles may have better technology - electronic shifting, hydraulic brakes, aerodynamic frames but this Lance Armstrong era racer is still cool af if you ask me. Same goes for motorcycles, some view the 500cc 2 stroke era as the peak of racing, I'm not saying modern riders aren't skilled but guys like Mick Doohan weren't just highly skilled but heroic. As for 4 wheels, group B rally cars were just insane.

Picked up a new Polar H9 hrm ♥️ on Ebay for under £40 inc postage. My ego has had to take a big blow because of this zone 2 stuff, when I first got a watch I'd come back from a run and it would show that I was often running for hours at 150-160bpm (this is too high for 'easy miles' where you're supposed to spend 80% of your time. The current goal is to go out and stay 130-135bpm and at least 165spm cadence which seems high for me as I'm now only going 11-12 min mile pace but that's how slow I have to go to keep the HR down. I actually felt these 6 mile zone 2 (ish) shuffles in my achilles and soleus more than running 20 miles at 158spm. Hopefully it's the correct approach. #exercise #running #runstr

Funny how you get fascinated by things, last weekend it was Mount Everest or rather all the ins and outs of scaling it, this weekend it's been the story of the Freedom Tunnel and Walter Wengert. Where Riverside South is in Manhattan there used to be New York Central 60th Street Railway Yard and a railway freight tunnel that ran from 72nd street to 124th, the tunnel became obsolete and between 1980 - 1991 the area was inhabited by 'Mole People' who built shacks and a kind of shantytown community, the area was also frequented by graffiti artists. In 1996 Amtrak reopened the freight line so a large scale eviction was carried out and many residents were given housing vouchers and offered apartments to live in. Further down the tunnel though there lived a guy called Walter Wengert who'd made his home in a spot that must've been at least 10ft up from the track level in a kind of ledged area that he accessed using an aluminum ladder, after most people had been evicted he was still living in his spot. He'd tapped into an electrical supply, had a TV, lighting, desktop computer, fridge, cooker etc, it didn't look very hygienic tbh but the guy lived there for 25 years, if he didn't have his lights on or was making noise people could walk through the tunnel and not even know he was up there. The guy died in 2012 and after his death Erik Swanson released the interview footage. Graffiti artist Chris Pape Freedom 69th Street transfer bridge in the Hudson River

Stood no chance of keeping HR♥️ <120bpm with headwinds. Fasted spin, well no food since 7pm the night before, kept it as light as possible on the pedals, could've gone faster and longer but max HR 145bpm. Be interested to see what difference a better bike would make - lighter, smoother efficient drivetrain, less rolling resistance vs a 20+ yr old mountain bike, heavier, weighty puncture resistant tyres (Swchalbe Marathon Plus), old bearings, bent rotors or wheels that make the pads touch. #exercise #bikestr 🚴

Seems a bit rubbish when everyone on YouTube is averaging 6-7 min miles for half or even full marathon but did a 7:05 min mile today. Shouldn't compare yourself to others because you don't know how old they are or how long they've been training etc and the Kenyans would smoke all those YouTube guys anyway 😂 🏃 Still trying stuff out, today was supposed to be a few miles warm up then 10 mins of 8:20 min/mile pace, 3 mins jog, then another 10 mins of 8:20 pace or at least that was what I was going to attempt but it turned into a 7:05 mile, 3 mins jog, 0.26 miles at 7:07 pace, a 4 mins jog and 0.56 miles at 7:14 pace. Very unstructured threshold/fartlek mix 🤷 I had about 5.6 miles to get home so experimented with this zone 2 stuff, to keep my HR around 130 - 135bpm and cadence 165-170, I had to shuffle along with the lightest, shortest steps I've ever done hardly lifting my feet off the ground and really slow 11-12 min mile, felt ridiculous tbh but that's as close as I've ever been to a recovery run or zone 2, I even walked on the hills or if HR started to creep up. There's a few videos on YouTube about all this zone 2 stuff and it's not as simple as everyone makes it seem with the MHR=220−age, Zone 2=60% to 70% of MHR equations, you'd have to go in a lab and carry out blood lactate threshold testing to get real figures. At the end of the day, why freak out because a Garmin watch says you're in the wrong zone? Some people use the talk test, if you can hold a conversation you're in zone 2, if you can say 12 words without being breathless you're in a comfortable aerobic zone. Once I was almost back I tried another short burst, 40 seconds, 0.14 miles, 4:53 min mile pace. #keeptrying #exercise #running #runstr

What are we supposed to do because we can't vote our way out of this? Go to London and hold up signs at an event while David Icke talks to the crowd about freedom? Then what? Nothing will change? Everytime I go out for a run I end up with a dry nose and sore throat and no one will convince me it's not the crap these bastards are releasing into the atmosphere. #geoengineering #chemtrails #freedom

A bit slow but that was the point, to try and bring my heart rate down and run easy miles without stacking fatigue. Driving myself mad with YouTube videos and "Zone 2" talk, I can't even shuffle round the block without hr going over 140bpm, averaged 146bpm today over half marathon distance but it's the hills that are pushing me into 150-160 territory, total ascent over the run was 678ft which isn't much overall but the last half hour was all a steady climb which was holding me at 154bpm. Maybe a drink or carbs while out may have helped bring it down but I didn't take anything with me. Going to get a chest strap because they're more accurate. #exercise #running #runstr

Not sure Bryan Johnson would approve . Maybe all lagers are crap but Peroni seems better than cheap corn syrup and chemical sweet swill like Carling & Fosters. Shouldn't be glamorising Medieval times as 90% of the population was born into serfdom under the feudal system but Medieval ale appeals to me, brewed frequently by an ale wife because it contained no preservatives, calorie dense and often called liquid bread, unfiltered and packed with vitamins and minerals. Everything nowadays seems full of chemicals and preservatives. #drinkstr 🍻