Morning intervals

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A fairly bright and breezy day in #Arlesey. Sore ribs still uncomfortable at night and feeling them at other times, but I can still go for a run. My quest for more speed continues with my semi-regular intervals run up West Drive.

Route

There's a couple of bearded old guys I often see up there and they were out for their walk again today. Maybe they do it every day. Everyone can benefit from staying active. I passed them a few times as I did my best to speed up the hill. The results were actually pretty good with me getting under 5min/km every time. The GAP is the Grade Adjusted Pace I might achieve on the flat.

Segments

I was taking it much slower on the way back down to recover. I just cannot sustain that pace for very long, but if I could manage about 4:50/km on the flat over 5km I could smash my parkrun target. I just have to keep pushing myself.

I have lost my Strava Local Legend status on that segment, but then I have not done it much lately and it looks like some guy does it every day. He seem to run up in the morning and back down later in the day, so maybe he works up at Fairfield.

It is interesting to see what others are doing via Strava. A friend was out this week running up a different hill near here that cuts across a field of crops. It is about the same distance, but with more elevation. He was going much quicker than me and was going fast in both directions. I do not expect to be the quickest of runners and I am conscious that I am no longer young, but I am happy with my achievements.

Selfie

I know some people like a photo, so here I am on my way home. The Londis is one of several general shops in the village. The betting shop next door shut down a while ago. I think there used to be another one around the corner. I am not sure I have every been in a bookmakers, but then I am not into betting on horses or much else. I expect a lot of that happens online these days.

Run free and stay well.

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The weather is perfect for me today, not too hot, not too cold, slight breeze, wonderful. I think if Jim picks us all up from the top of the hill, by the war memorial, it'll be easier for sunday. He's found a taxi that's half the price.

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I don't mind driving actually. I may be bringing an amplifier and easier to just load it in the car.

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That's cool, but alas, you won't be able to drink as much!

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That doesn't bother me. I am there for the music, not the booze.

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Ah, you can enjoy their varied selection of house ales, there's the bass or the errrr bass.

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Sometimes another beer. A friend and I have been saying we should go to a whisky tasting there some time. Then we might get the train.

!hivebits

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Ah, well, hit me up if you do. I've fancied doing that, a curry is given too, normally about £32 i think.

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That is crazy that they just have bookmakers on the street like that. We just have weed shops on every corner here! Nice job on your run. I took it easy on my workout this morning. I didn't really feel like getting out of bed at all...

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Why is it crazy? Most towns have several bookmakers. No weed shops here though, yet.

!BEER

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Sports gambling just became legal in most states. You have to do it in casinos or online though. You can't just stop into the local market and do it unless the guy is doing it illegally. You can buy lottery tickets anywhere though.

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It's been normal thing here forever, but not my thing. I know you have differing gambling rules around the country. On Young Sheldon his grandmother was running illegal slot machines in a laundromat. We have those in pubs and elsewhere. We don't have much in the way of big casinos though. I have been to Las Vegas and found it pretty strange. Gambling just doesn't interest me. The house always wins.

Okay, I did play the lottery, but don't bother now. The odds are not great, but someone won £184m recently. That is crazy money to suddenly have.

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Yeah, we have pretty strict gambling laws. It is weird.

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It's odd what governments think is okay for adults to do. We can drink from 18 and kids can play some gambling machines.

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yeah, if only the gun laws over here were as strict as the gambling ones...

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I was avoiding that topic. Terrible events recently with no easy answers.

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Weed shops!! We do sell CBD products more frequently now in regular chemists (Drug Stores as you guys say)

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Nice work on the run. Last year for awhile we set up a Strave group at work, as a way of raising money for charity and to keep us active during the lockdowns etc. It was fascinating seeing what my colleagues got up to and how we managed to clock up the equivalent mileage between London and Washington DC. We've an office in each city. A nice segue onto what our company does. We are a Regtech company for the online payments and online gambling industries.

Yes most gambling takes place online now and I recall reading my US colleagues (@bozz) articles about how the US has started legalising across each State. I can remember being surprised by that. It may be because there are a lot of movies about Vegas, roulette wheels and one armed bandits etc.... however am I right in saying that is because Nevada had a license for it and the rest of the country doesn't?

We completed our Strava mission and then completed the trip from DC to Taipei (where we've a small office) too.

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Challenges like that can keep people motivated. There was a virtual parkrun thing going on too.

US laws seem to vary a lot by state. I think some of the Native American tribes have the right to run gambling on their land. We take betting shops for granted here. There seems to be a lot of ads for gambling on TV these days so there must be a lot of money in it.

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It’s a multi billion dollar industry and regulators are constantly reviewing and modifying the laws. A few years back the government camped down on TV advertising, at which point we saw almost none of the ads. I think that’s changed, as now, on some occasions a commercial break is full of online casino content.

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