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wedding dresses uk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:34:24 -07:00

Thank you for sharing.

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Brandon Fuller — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:00 -07:00

I usually spend some of my weekend free time on my various hacks. This plugin gets updated monthly or so. I usually collect a list of things people are looking for and do them all at once. So I don't have an ETA.

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Pedro — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:00 -07:00

I don't want to sound impatient, but do you have guestimate as to when you might incorporate those changes? Do you think you going to create new user-selectable options for each one, or just make it an all-in-one option?

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Brett — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:00 -07:00

Yea if you run a marathon at 160 HR that means constant effort, not constant pace...you would likely see your 10k splits look something like 40:00, 43:00, 46:00, 49:00. You would probably feel like committing suicide around the 20-22 mile mark.

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Glenn Hahn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:19:00 -07:00

This is good data. For tempo during long runs, I throw in two hard at the last-1 and last-2 miles. Khalid Khannouchi. With MHR 172 or so, you can run a marathon at 162 AHR but you better not start that way, "stay comfortable" is for sure the right advice. You better feel like superman at 15 miles. Then crank out the last 10K like a 10K.

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Brandon Fuller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:01:00 -07:00

I added this for Amazon but never did it for Apple. They had too many country choices. I will try and get to it.

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Tom — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:49:00 -07:00

Hi Brandon. Using the plugin with my wordpress site. Works great. Is there any way to make the apple link to the uk store rather than the us store.

Thanks Tom

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Brandon Fuller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:35:00 -07:00

Thanks for the suggestions. Good stuff to add in.

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Pedro — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:00 -07:00

Any chance to get that regex updated so it doesn't substitute "Link" in place of the link's url? Additionally, is there a chance you could work in links to any mentioned hashtags or other users (ala @blah). This page has the functional regex for all three of these things, but I thought you might want to incorporate it into the plugin itself.

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Brandon Fuller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:28:00 -07:00

Thanks.

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Pedro — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:25:00 -07:00

I'm on MT5, and it works just fine.

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Brandon Fuller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:05:00 -07:00

Well, for the last few years I was mentally pegged that marathons should be run by me in the 140s. That was probably in the lower range years ago and has drifted more towards the upper range lately. However, even though I didn't wear a monitor last fall at Denver, I am sure I eclipsed that -- probably by a bunch near the end. So that had me getting comfortable with the low 150s early this year. In that exchange we had in February, I was saying that publicly to put a stake in the ground for myself. However, given the HR is trending upwards, when do you stop? Well, Neal and his data machine showed that higher 150s might be just fine as well. I am thinking of those as the ceiling. I am not comfortable thinking I could run 158-162 for 26.2. Maybe if my life depended on it? I surely will start out a little hotter than usual at Boston and see where it goes.

As far as excuses, yeah, I am really doing myself no favors there. Whittling them down 1x1. Hell, I might shave!

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kerrie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:40:00 -07:00

fun times! however, i think that this shows you were about 10bpm off if i understand correctly. you were planning on running your marathon at 150 and now, with this data, are aiming for 158-162? that is huge, especially when you are tapered and drop down to sea level. now you have no excuses for not breaking 3 hours except your unshaved legs ;).

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joe — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:31:30 -07:00

how big is the blockade? Can I cross by bike ?

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Marco — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:49:46 -07:00

I have an H1 and an H2 i have been overseas many times to defend this country so i can drive what i want when i want. I have also worked for blackwater for five years so i guess all you tree hugging obama lovers can give me the finger i dont care its not my fault i pay more in taxes the the ELF pres makes in a year oh wait he dosnt pay taxes now that mother nature took care of his ass. So what will all these tree hugging pussys do if there country calls on them to serve well i guess canada is going to have there hands full with all these hippies so fuck you and your trees drive all the electric cars you want just gives me more fuel to burn.

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Brandon Fuller — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:24:00 -07:00

Ha! Not quite but the course looks tough. Running on tree limbs.

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Brandon Fuller — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:23:00 -07:00

Its a multi-page article so I left out some of that detail. The table is based on statistics by Garry Wang, a ultramarthoner and professional statistician. Apparently the data is from 2008 and is an averaged based on runners who completed the listed even AND one of the following in the same year: WS, VT, LT, AC, Wasatch, Kettle Moraine, HR, Rocky Raccoon and Mohican. He averaged the relative % over the samples then normalized to WS, then averaged it over the 9 runs. The finish rate is just shown as a point of reference.

Buried in the article they talk about the Barkley Marathon. Heard of it? 54,200 feet of accumulated vertical climb in Tennessee. 8 finishers since 1986.

Also, states they doubt Leadville is 3% harder than WS -- for sea level folks maybe but not Coloradans!

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Brett — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:31:00 -07:00

Yea I was going to point out the same thing as Tony...I wonder what a person adept in statistics would say...because look at the finishing rate at HURT (and cutoffs). It could be that all the slower people get dropped at the optional 100k point and earlier so that only the strong are left. Anyways, interesting list.

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nataleejean — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:36:00 -07:00

Now I know what you planned your next Hawaii trip around.

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antonkrupicka — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:27:00 -07:00

Hmmm...that's a pretty sweet list. My main comment would be to pay very close attention to the "sample size" column. I'm not sure what exactly that means (I would say that it's the number of unique finishers at a given race, but that doesn't make sense when a race's sample size is in the single digits). But, I take it as a measure of how "good" the data is for that particular race. For example, I think most veterans of the sport would put Angeles Crest up there in the top 5 in terms of difficulty, and certainly not behind Tahoe Rim or Bighorn. AC is generally hot and has something like 25,000' of climbing. It's also the 3rd or 4th oldest 100 in the country, which is probably why its sample size is so big. Basically, I would like to see their algorithm. Another variable that is tough to control for is the "finishing rate" because each race's cut-off time is pretty arbitrary. For instance, Hardrock has a higher finishing rate than Leadville which is completely absurd because Leadville is a WAAAY easier course than Hardrock. 48hrs at HR is just a way more lenient cut-off time than 30hr at Leadville. Finally, it's cool that they normalized their data to Western States. It's been around the longest and probably the most people have run that course, so that makes sense. Did they explain how they came up with the first column?

Tony