I should set a counter for how many times he says "we carried the weight". Carry the weight? Carry deez nuts. No wonder the NCR just want to gamble and get drunk with this guy at the helm.

Hey everyone,

I've been running somewhat seriously since about 2021, logging minimum 20 km/week year-round, and ramping up/down according to races. Last year I ran my first marathon and ended up bonking pretty hard at 30 km in. A tale as old as time itself. I wasn't following a training plan so I definitely didn't put in enough weekly kilometers to have a good aerobic base etc.

Anyway, this year I'm following the Hanson advanced marathon training plan. I'm 9 weeks in (out of 18) and I feel like the cumulative fatigue is already starting to slap pretty hard. I'm working on slowing down the easy runs which is helping, and the last few weeks have also been quite hot and humid which isn't helping. I am also trying to ramp up my carb intake which has probably been a bit low.

Anyway, my question - seeing as the advanced plan was probably a bit much to chew for my running level (going from 20-30km/week - 70-80 for the last 2 months), and I'm already feeling the fatigue, should I stick to the prescribed one week taper, or make it a two week taper? It seems like most plans generally have a two week taper.

I was thinking about maybe doing one tempo run about two weeks before the race, then hitting 40-50 km that week, and the suggested ~30 km on race week. According to the training plan, the week before race week should be 86 km.

Since I can't seem to post on the drug gardening community I'll drop this here. Really digging the petal shapes on this one.

Bonus trichocereus bridgesii in the background.

Hey,

So I've been working on recording a song and I am trying to get a solo tone similar to the kind of long, sustained, gain-y yet clean sound that The War on Drugs tends to use.

Any suggestions? I'm mostly recording direct input through my pedal board into a tascam sound card. I've fiddled around with my overdrive pedal (Soul Food) but the tone gets too distorted and muddy to give that clean sustain.

Is it time to get a sustain pedal? Apologies in advance if what I'm asking about gear doesn't make much sense..

Currently just some cannabis and nicotine for me, nothing wild.