Morning Run: Coming home
steevc just finished a 7.01km run, that lasted for 43 minutes.
This run helped steevc burn 562.0 calories.
Description from Strava:
I am not a regular football watcher, but I was drawn to seeing England play the Netherlands in the Euro24 semi-final. Actually I was watching something else and when I switched over it was already 1:1 after 20 minutes. We had to wait until the very end for the deciding goal that put England in the final. That will be interesting against Spain, but I never get my hopes up when it comes to such things.
Meanwhile, I needed to get out and run this morning and it was really nice out there. It has been another mixed week and I got soaked on my way home the other day. I did the alternate fast and slow km workout again. I saw the usual pace improvement as I went on that is due to whether I am going up or down the hills. I did feel better as I went on.
I listened to an episode of Things Fell Apart where Jon Ronson looks into the origins of various 'culture war' issues. This is very interesting as a lot of these issues have really blown up lately. Most people will not know the real story behind them.
I may need to volunteer at parkrun again this week as they are short of people. It is a while since I ran there, but that is okay.
Run free.
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I've never listened to podcasts before, I normally put on some random music from Spotify. I'll check out Jon Ronson, sounds like something I'd be interested in
I love podcasts and listen to a range of science, tech and comedy plus some current affairs. There used to be some about Hive, but not sure if any are still going.
I don’t want England to win in the finals😅
Why not? It's only footie.
We got a ton of rain yesterday, but the sun is out now. I'm still getting back into the swing of exercising after being on vacation. We did a lot of walking on vacation, but it's different to be putting in the extra effort. I did the treadmill yesterday and weights today.
I tend to eat more when travelling, so I need to keep up the exercise. We walked a lot on our last trip. Keep it up.
We knew we didn't want to be eating out all the time, so we took a large cooler full of stuff to make sandwiches for lunches while we were on the road. I got in a couple rounds of disc golf in Colorado and we hiked some mountains as well.
Congrats on the run brother. That's a great way to start the day. Interesting podcast about culture wars too..hmmm🤔
I really should look into podcast when I run by myself but I always default to music. I really wish we had more parks runs in the United States. The closest one to me is in San Francisco and I live in San Diego.
I looked for parkruns when I was in the US, but there were none that close. It's a really big thing here and it's wonderful for inspiring runners.
Yeah it is seriously disappointing and then if you want to run any other race and it's under 50$ for a 5K it's "cheap"
I wonder if it has something to do with liability issues. You don't want to run a free event if you could get sued by someone who tripped over a crack in the path.
I think it is a whole host of reasons. From my understanding it is really hard for the parkruns here to get any type of sponsors. Getting permits are quite difficult, and participation seems to be pretty low despite lots of people often out running in the parks. I'm sure liability is big also especially if they can't obtain sponsors.
The UK parkrun has various sponsors, but the financial and legal issues may be very different. It's notable that sport in some aspects has masses of funding in the US. We don't have anything like your college sports facilities. Maybe it needs government initiatives to get regular people out running. It could help with health issues.
We have a lot of funding for college sports. I ran track and cross country in college, and our program received substantial funding, resulting in incredibly nice facilities. After I graduated, they even built an entirely new indoor track. Which was a lot nicer then our previous one. But all this spending doesn't do anything to alleviate our public health concerns. Shows our priorities
I've heard that college sports coaches can earn more than the principals. You have big sports like baseball and Nascar that are irrelevant in the rest of the world, but the US market is big enough to sustain them. It's interested for the economics aspect. When I was in the US and Canada I saw some of the sports TV channels as that brought home how different it is. They even covered young kids playing baseball.
Absolutely true. My college track and field coach has a seven-year contract worth $3.8 million, not counting the extra performance-based earnings. That's a significant amount of money for a sport that doesn't generate much, if any, revenue for the school.