France was dead, dead, dead.

Has anyone tried sending iOS crash logs via Open Telemetry trace? I’m trying to figure out how to best symbolicate the crash data.

@jpkroehling Do you happen to know if there’s a nice way to view Open Telemetry RUM data?
I don’t want to have to use the Elastic RUM Agent but the way in which the UX data is displayed in Kibana is really nice.

Apparently there is no possibility to check a decision with VAR after the whistle has been blown to restart the match, and after the final whistle has been blow.

Except that’s exactly what the ref did during the France - Tunisia match.
Fortunately this screw up had no influence on the outcome of the group.

Ran a good 5k last night. 7 secs from a PB. Saucony Endorphins Pro instead of my Flyknits. They worked well. I think next time I’ll use pace alerts to make sure I don’t back off.

I wrote some code... It’s a Concourse Resource Type that allows interactions with Octopus Deployments. github.com/paulgrav/concourse-

The matches having n minute added due to stoppages is fine... but why isn’t that consistent with refereeing in Europe? Moreover, the viewer has no idea how much time is left. Football always a few steps behind Rugby.

The FIFA World Cup 22 is sponsored by Budweiser who can’t sell their beer in the stadia. It’s not like the right to host the World Cup was awarded yesterday to Qatar. There were 12yrs to sort that out.

Maybe World Cups can only be awarded to countries that support western values.

news.sky.com/story/qatar-world

A tough Parkrun at Temple Newsam. Not sure if I should have expected a time closer to 19mins
strava.app.link/SQBAmTCKTub

Happy

Twitter looks like it’s imploding, so I’ve been using Mastodon instead.

France squad announced last night. I’m not hopeful that France can retain the World Cup. France has struggled this year to not concede goals. I don’t see how a midfield can be composed that matches 2018’s Kanté, Pogba, Matuidi.

Played the first 30mins of God of War: Ragnarok. Wow. The acting, the score, the gameplay. All top notch. #ps5 #gaming

Played the first 30mins of God of War: Ragnarok. Wow. The acting, the score, the gameplay. All top notch.

What’s surprising about Mastodon is how much of it just works. There are definitely issues but there’s a lot of promise.
Just waiting from Trump to come back to Twitter 🙏🏻

What’s surprising about Mastodon is how much of it just works. There are definitely issues but there’s a lot of promise. Just waiting from Trump to come back to Twitter 🙏🏻

@manton How do manage both your Micro Blog account and your Mastodon one? Did you cross post from Micro Blog to Mastodon or keep both separate? There doesn’t seem to be a way to consolidate both identities.

Every World Cup and Olympics tends to be preceded by negative stories. I’m wondering home much of the negativity about Qatar hosting the World Cup will end once the competition starts.

Every World Cup and Olympics tends to be preceded by negative stories. I’m wondering home much of the negativity about Qatar hosting the World Cup will end once the competition starts.

Ran a marathon on 9 Oct. And I’ve been struggling to fully recover since. HRV rallied immediately afterwards but cratered 10 days later. Only returning to some form of normality this weekend. Then back to unbalanced after a Saturday workout.

Ran a marathon on 9 Oct. And I’ve been struggling to fully recover since. HRV rallied immediately afterwards but cratered 10 days later. Only returning to some form of normality this weekend. Then back to unbalanced after a Saturday workout.

Bucharest Marathon report

Bucharest Marathon race report

Background

I ran the Paris marathon last year and missed a sub 3hr by 9secs. This year’s marathon was a chance to smash my PB. It didn’t work out that way.

Training

Matt Fitzgerald’s training plan was the basis of my training the previous year. For no good reason I chose Pfitzinger’s 18 week 55-70mile plan this time round.

Training was punctured with multiple vacations, poor me. I struggled to find/make the time in my routine to get the med-long runs done. In the end my training consistency wasn’t where it needed to be. That said, I did manage to achieve the necessary running volume during the weeks prior to the race.

I was also nursing a knee injury that impaired my ability to get the volume of running done.

Pre-race

For the taper, I tried to follow what I had done the previous year since that clearly worked. The exception was that I sprinkled in some hard VO2max bike workouts. I’ve been monitoring my HRV throughout the summer and I was puzzled why my watch was telling me that I was strained. Completely the inverse of what I expected and made me worry that my immune system was under some sort of stress that was unknown to me.

Race

Temp at the start was 15° on a clear sunny day. Towards the end it was near 21°.

0-2km Felt good. Ran to RPE. Pace was a comfortable 4m00s.

3-21km Pace dropped to 4m10s. HR was higher than I would have liked to be. Last year it was a few beats above 150, now it was approaching 160. Too close to threshold but I didn’t want to slow down since RPE felt fine.

21-28km The beginning of the end. Maintaining my target pace was becoming more challenging. My hip was starting to hurt. I could feel signs of cramp in my calves. I wasn’t enjoying it anymore.

28-30km Pace dropped to 4m30s. I was fighting my body to keep the target pace. The hip pain was getting worse and I was starting to limp. By 30km the discomfort was too much and I had to walk. It didn’t take me long to come to terms that all the training I’d done wasn’t sufficient. 12k to go, what do I do now? The answer was simple, try to jog to the finish and enjoy the beautiful autumn day in Bucharest.

30-39km No question it was a slog. At 35km I could feel that my cardio had enough.

39-42km Casa Parlamentului was now visible. The end was in sight. I managed to push a little harder and run a couple of final sub-6m/km.

The event

The route was nice. It passed the nicer areas of Bucharest. România in Autumn is beautiful. Temperatures are pleasant. There were a lot fewer runners than at Paris. 600-800 versus the 18000 at Paris. I was frequently running alone. The atmosphere was spartan to say the least. I appreciated the few people who took the time to cheer us on.

Conclusions

Did I go out too hard? It’s possible, but the RPE felt fine. I ran my last marathon to RPE and this one didn’t feel any harder. Did the VO2 bike workouts help or hinder? If anything, it would be the later. They might have allowed me to run faster than my legs could sustain.

I think the main reason why my Paris marathon was successful and this one wasn’t was due to adherence to the plan. Too many vacations. One injury too many. Too few long runs at marathon pace. Getting the volume up to 90km wasn’t itself sufficient.

If I ever attempt another marathon, I will load up Matt Fitzgerald’s plan stick to it religiously.

Multiple Mastodon services, each looking exactly the same, but your account only works on one. That’s a support nightmare.

I’ve already tried signing into the "wrong" Mastodon server multiple times. And I’m a techy.

How does content moderation work here? How long until this place too is polluted by bigots?