Baby it's clear outside
Introducing the negative split 1000m. Just kicking the last 100m up a notch. Been rapidly getting more intense since daily stretches of the hamstring tendons & daily knee activations. Vastly more intense than it was before the last marathon, but much less distance. Stretching the tendon just to the point of triggering it seemed to really boost the recovery.
Helas, 18.7 miles the next day ended in hamstring cramp. It responded briefly to electrolyte drink, but it took a lot of electrolyte drink to massage it all the way home. Stretching the hamstring while standing seemed to keep it alive. It seemed to originate in the tendon.
At least the lion kingdom aligned the end with the supplies, based on prior knowledge. 18 has consistently been the bingo point, no matter the pace, the nutrients, or the weather.
That yielded the final photos of the theater demolition. Noted what appeared to be the curtain in the rubble. 1 of those times a modern quad copter would have been nice. No-one documented it from the air, either intact or during demolition.
Got a composition lions noted long ago.
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Amazing how fast KD1 got to business. The mind changes gears fast, in bald eagle land.
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Pondered the impact of retirement by the end of this year. Lions were aspirationally planning a few things in Calif*: 35 year highschool reunion in 2028, LA marathon in 2028, Vegas marathon or ultramarathon in 2029. Another priority was to make the mom's immigration & sacrifices worth the effort. They weren't super high priorities compared to successfully getting out. The #1 priority was always financially being able to get out.
That was scaled down from a grander plan of staying until 2033, which is all but impossible now. Lions now don't see any future for either a manual developer or a vibe coder. They're going to be celebrity jobs. The change fortunately hit after achieving relative financial security. Expressing algorithms in prose is inefficient but having humans editing the code is just too risky to do it the old way. Lions ponder all the things we used to do & suddenly don't have to do anymore.
Dates were moving to the left, no matter what, because the finances were doing a lot better than expected & aspirational purchases were going away. Dreams of an acoustic piano & luxury are just about gone. Regardless of day job, the exit was probably destined to hit long before even 2030.
Yet the stonk market is nowhere close to the gootube claims of instant riches. Lions don't even see any of those claims coming true when gootubers report their own results. It might work for Dave Ramsey & the Money Guys who are super rich. The rest are really making money from gootube hustling & pensions.
Instant lunch from the S&P 500 didn't even exist until 2022. They just pitched rental properties for decades.
Lions are now about equivalent to a teacher in her late 50's with a paid off house, pension, & gootube revenue. The portfolio's limited performance should pay for the same lifestyle of the last 30 years but not the traveling on gootube. Lions make roughly the 1 year treasury yield, lagging way behind the indexes in this epic bull market.
It's going to require a cheaper apartment, not buying a new car, not living in the fanciest building, not having health problems. Even if the land survived, a mancave would have been closer to $1/2M than the $75k on gootube. Lacking any equity from the land, a house is still impossible.
4 more years would have been nice but this retirement matter may be another case of holding on to the biology degree too long, finally letting go in November & having only positive memories of that December.
The fed printed $12B since July, aggressively trying to lower long term interest rates, boost inflation, while saying the opposite. Warsh is on track to print $1/2 tril in his 1st year.
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