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For a long time marathon was seen as an "old man's game" (not excluding women, but I'm not stupid to call women old ) and a lot of runners would run shorter distances (3k, 5k, 10k) when they were younger and move to longer distances as they grew older. Regarding my own training, I'm still sticking to the plan, and I'm still trying to make at least 10.000 steps per day (total, including my workouts). On top of that, I've reduced eating sweets and drinking sodas. Not that I've been eating and drinking those much, but even with such a small change to my diet I've lost 3-3,5kgs in 3 weeks so I guess it was a factor.

Djokovic says his "pumping" celebration is an inside joke between him and his kids and while that might be the case, I'd say it's too much of a coincidence that he's celebrating his wins by simulating pumping when the slogan of the largest protests ever in Serbia that has been going on for 8 months now is "pump it".

I got into the routine of three crossfit(ish) workouts per week and recently included 2 more runs per week. The heat is killing me, so I'm not doing anything at high pace or particularly long. I stick to 40-45 minutes range, which comes down to around 7km. I used to run faster and/or longer but haven't run regularly in recent years so it's a good enough start.

And which of those led to Salzburg playing in the CWC? What have I missed?

If we're honest, the World Cup is THE competition in football. No player would ever play for the club during World Cup if they had the chance to play in the World Cup, nor would any other top-level competition be running in parallel.

Kerkez and his father were guests on one of Serbian podcasts this week. The father did most of the talking, and they talked about a lot of things, but most important points: Kerkez is either going to Liverpool or staying at Bournemouth Kerkez and his father love the relationship with Richard Hughes (said they'd follow him to India) Kerkez already agreed everything with Liverpool, the only remaining thing is an agreement between clubs It would hardly be the first time someone lied in an interview, but they seemed sincere.

He did do something wrong. He did have a positive PED test and that doesn't happen out of the blue. Sure, the amounts weren't significant, but they were there. Not saying he should've been suspended for years but there is a procedure and it was disregarded because he was #1, which is the definition of unfair. I mean, players who never even tested positive were suspended for longer than him. It's perfectly normal that people don't like him for that.

There are RPG days festival in various pubs in several towns across Serbia, and I will be taking part in it as a player. Tomorrow after work, I'm playing a one-off session. Characters should be lvl 3. I've created a half-elf barbarian (totem spirit - wolf) and a wood elf warlock (archfey patron, pact of the blade). The plan was to pick between them depending on what the rest of the party takes but more I think about it the more likely it is I'll be going with the warlock because it sounds more fun. It feels a bit off not playing with any of my mates I've been playing D&D for 20+ years now, but if the options are playing with the bunch of strangers and not playing at all, then I'm going for a bunch of strangers. In addition to playing those one-offs, I'll try to get the group of my beginner friends I may have mentioned way earlier back together and DM a campaign for them. We played one short adventure and they seemed to like it. Will try to run them through the Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign I bought a few months back. It seems pretty fun to me, and hopefully we'll get to test it soon.

I know it's not really sportsmanlike but I must admit that, after the title is 100% secured, I don't care one bit what results Liverpool get. If undefeated season or 100 points or some other major achievement* was on the line, I'd be pissed if it was ruined this late in the season, but as it is, I'm all for giving second-stringers an opportunity to get some time on the pitch and show what they can do and what could be expected of them. As long as no one gets injured, I don't care if we lose all the remaining matches. * Winning the title is a major achievement on its own, but you know what I mean.

Every time the Olympics come around there's talk of throwing an average person into the mix for swimming, athletics and such sports, just for reference. If anyone wants to see what it would look like, a Jamaican sprinter (forgot her name) competed against parents of her kid's classmates at some school event. I thought I was aware of the difference between elite athletes and average people but that was really eye-opening.

No denying that. It ended well, but there was definitely some luck involved.

Running a relay half-marathon tomorrow with my coworkers. It's just a 5k basically, since I haven't been running anywhere near enough to run a half-marathon. Also, 2 out of 4 of my teammates are pretty slow (7 minutes per km, or something like that) so there's no pressure to get a certain result. I'll likely take my warmup run to my starting point (around 5km from my home) and then wait for my turn to run my part of the relay.

We have a slack channel dedicated to board games at work and I asked if anyone's playing D&D. End result - I'll be DM-ing a session for 4 of my colleagues in two weeks time. We don't know each other so there's a question of how we will gel together and if we'll be able to get into the flow (also, my experience with DM-ing is pretty basic), but we'll try it out and see how it goes.

To be honest, while of course do wish Liverpool won this match and the Cup I'm not that bothered we lost. I'm glad Newcastle finally won a trophy, after having a top level team for a fair part of 27-28 years I've been watching the Premier league. I wish they didn't win it by beating Liverpool, but it is what it is. It is obvious that winning the League Cup brought more joy to Newcastle fans than it would to Liverpool fans. Have fun celebrating guys, you've earned it after years of hardship. Now we can just hope that police horses will be safe from celebrating Newcastle fans.

We're no more Salah FC than City were Haaland FC when he was on fire in his first season at City or Arsenal were Henry FC back in the day etc.

Congrats to Newcastle. Liverpool had a really poor game, and I have no idea if it's fatigue or Newcastle cancelling them out or whatever, but it does not diminish Newcastle's triumph one bit. @BigFatCoward I hope you and your mates have fun celebrating your club's well deserved trophy.

The estimate of crowd numbers from a more reliable source has come in, but it is not as accurate as I would want. They probably didn't expect the numbers or the fluctuation of the crowd so their estimate is at 275-325 thousand, "with possibility of greater numbers". Still, beyond a shadow of doubt the biggest crowd we've had in any protests in Serbia so far. Even at 300 thousand, it's around 5% of total population of Serbia. Government backed people caused some incidents and the protest was stopped to avoid further violence. Students have odd methods in my opinion, but government just can't handle them.

You may or may not remember my posts about protests in Serbia. Today we had a big one, here's the link to Guardian article about it. The article does explain the basics well enough, but I don't think it really does justice to the scale of today's protests. For example, I live in Novi Beograd (literally New Belgrade), part of the city where development started in communist post-WWII era and is situated across the Sava river (we also have Danube flowing through our city) from the city centre and I couldn't cross the bridge to the city centre because of the crowds. It is by far the biggest protest ever seen in this city (and I'm old enough to remember ones from the '90s, too). Even the government, who are notorious for reducing the numbers of protesters said there were over 100,000 people in the streets, but so far the government has reduced the number by the factor of around 4 compared to independent assessments. I'd say that I could believe that there were 400,000 people in the streets today but I can't say for sure until we get more reliable numbers than what the government provides.

This would all be great, if we knew in advance who did what wrong, before the proper investigation has been conducted. All players who tested positive (and a few who haven't even tested positive) so far have been suspended while investigation was ongoing, and punishment (if any) was given out based on the outcome of that investigation. While I can support "innocent until proven guilty", it's interesting that it's applied for the first time when #1 tests positive. If this changes the way doping investigations and suspensions are handled in the future, then it's ok. If not, then Sinner is given preferential treatment and that's plain wrong.

You most definitely should use a one size fits all approach or you should just allow a free for all. If rules are not good enough, then there's a procedure to change the rules and adapt them to new situations and so on.

He had two triple-doubles in a single match

Having never played AD&D and joining at 3e, the first time someone tried to explain THAC0 to me I remember only thinking "Why, though?"

This is a good example of how different approaches work for different people. Honestly, I would advise against weighing yourself daily. Your weight may fluctuate from day to day and it could be demoralising when you see your weight go the way you don't want it to go. I doubt even top level athletes competing in weight-class sports weigh themselves daily, except for a period before competitions.

@Toth Don't be too hard on yourself. You can't gain muscle only any more than you could lose fat only. It's a balancing act. The principle is simple, sticking to it can be rather difficult, especially when life gets in the way. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess there's no pro athletes among us, so we all have other stuff we have to do throughout the day other than watching our diet and training. Hell, even pro athletes have everyday stuff going on that may throw them off course. Luka Doncic is one of the best basketball players in the world over the last decade or so, and even he's 10-20kgs overweight at the moment.

This is not just a red card, this is a mandatory prison sentence. There's no way to explain this as part of football. Studs up, foot too high, kick in the head... you name it! It could only be worse if he kicked him while down and unconscious. How Oliver is still a ref is beyond me. I don't remember him ever doing a good job. I know that we all pretty much ignore refs when they do a good job but he's been so shit that him having a good game might not make the news but it would definitely go viral.