I hate announcers

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Not ALL announcers. Just MOST of them. Haven’t watched most of the Olympics since 1985 or so. And this week I’ve been watching the T&F competition. And the mic work has been AWFUL. Reason 1. These aren’t track people. They’re sportscasters. Most of whom know little to nothing about the sport/events they’re covering and simply yammer about the factoids on the little piece of paper some producer gave them. It’s insipid. It’s painful. My sister pointed out that a few of them DID actually compete in an event or two. The problem THERE is that they STILL aren’t announcers.

And then it dawned on me. There’s no time to develop as a track and field announcer. Take MLB. 162 Games per year. If you’re an announcer doing only home games that’s 81 games a year at roughly 3 hours per game. 240 hours per year. And if you played the sport you had, what, twenty years of involvement before then? Now look at the track athlete. Start in HS. Done by 25 or so? A decade. Now announce. You’ve got the NCAA’s, the World Championships and the Olympics. Maybe ten hours per year if you get to do them ALL. There’s no WAY to get better. And the masses don’t care. Because they don’t know.

Cliches? “There’s a gold medal on the line in this event.” There’s almost ALWAYS a chance at a gold medal on the line. They just run on and on and on.

It’s sad really.

Haven’t done one of these

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in August for about two years so we’ll use those numbers to get us started.

I got up to 230# on Easter. And then took steps. Diet. Calorie charting. Exercising. And I reread all of those old running posts. And FINALLY learned a few things.

  1. A 45 year old can train like a 30 year old but a 60 year old can NOT train like a 45 year old. More rest. Like – a LOT more. Which I’d always treated as anathema. And more weight work.
  2. So I turned to three new tools. First comes The Barbell Perscription – weightlifting after 40. Second is Fast After 50. And third is chatGPT, including its Fitness, Workout and Diet coach. QUITE helpful.

So I’ve taken all these lessons and overlayed them onto the Brianmac.co.uk workouts I’d BEEN using for the last two decades or so. Throw in Strava.com to replace the utility that Fitbit has degraded, and keep the fitbit for the other stuff. Pretty sure you’re talking a fitness dynamo.

Numbers. August ’22 I was 213. Currently 209. Body fat was 24 is now barely 20. VO2 max was in the 24 range. Currently headed toward 40. NONE of my splits are where they were but my hip is healthy and I’m looking to fix that. 100m within 1 second, 200 within 4, 400m within 7. Mile within about 15. GOTTA start incorporating the speed work soon. I’m comfortable with my progress so far. Here’s Augusts plan: lifting 1-2 days per cycle (a cycle being 6-9 days.) LSD three days a week, upping my distance steadily. Wanna get up to at least 2 soon. Currently 1.6. Astrands at least once per cycle. And two rest days per cycle based on work load.

And hopefully when I’m back in September I’ll be hitting 17’s, 36’s, and 1:24’s. VO2 number currently 38.3. Wanna get up around 39.2 And then move to the Early Base 1 portion of the plan. That’s focus on lifting, with a medium focus on aerobic threshold and low focus on aerobic capacity. Harder lifting. Less LSD, more Astrands. That’ll be September.

Howsabout something fun as we head into the final month of summer

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FROM THE HOME OFFICE ON THE SOUTH BANK OF THE RIVER THAMES: The best James Bond films – ranked.

My list. Seems we’re close on Goldfinger but I’m a big higher on Dr. No. Blame Ursula Andress. But I cannot forgive On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Perhaps it might improve it’s standing with a re-watch.

Global
Ranking		Movie TitleRelease
Year		DirectorMPAA
Rating		Your
Ranking
462Goldfinger1964Guy HamiltonNR37
635Dr. No1962Terence YoungPG69
1185Thunderball1965Terence YoungNR144
627From Russia with Love1963Terence YoungNR200
3290Octopussy1983John GlenPG351
2027Diamonds Are Forever1971Guy HamiltonPG732
2191Quantum of Solace2008Marc ForsterPG131237
2586The Living Daylights1987John GlenPG1269
3055Licence to Kill1989John GlenPG131271
4613The World Is Not Enough1999Michael AptedPG131274
1351You Only Live Twice1967Lewis GilbertNR1357
1472The Spy Who Loved Me1977Lewis GilbertPG1367
2156For Your Eyes Only1981John GlenPG1368
1100GoldenEye1995Martin CampbellPG131396
4516Tomorrow Never Dies1997Roger SpottiswoodePG131400
5899Die Another Day2002Lee TamahoriPG131412
1877The Man with the Golden Gun1974Guy HamiltonPG1565
3818A View to a Kill1985John GlenPG1736
1570Live and Let Die1973Guy HamiltonPG1737
646Skyfall2012Sam MendesPG132038
314Casino Royale2006Martin CampbellPG133196
3587Spectre2015Sam MendesPG135125
3603Moonraker1979Lewis GilbertPG5563
1286On Her Majesty’s Secret Service1969Peter R. HuntPG6752

Not sure what direction to take tonight

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So I’ll ride off in a few of them but not before observing that someone is burning black churches in the south again. For real this time.

This was submitted nearly a month ago but it’s MUCH more topical now: BEHOLD THE MONSTER YOU CREATED

TIME CALLED IT A “CABAL,” AND IT WAS ONE: Judicial Watch: New Records Detail Federal-State Censorship Coordination in 2020 Election. And of course they’re planning to do it again. They didn’t suffer any consequences last time.

BIDEN ARRANGED BURISMA EXEC MEETING WITH KEY STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: New evidence reviewed by Just the News points to another chapter in the Biden Crime Family’s Burisma epic.

Internal docs show Homeland Security considers Trump supporters to be domestic terror threats. Read the details here.

More chicanery from the Biden legal team: THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR SHOULD INVALIDATE A SEARCH: Security Cameras Turned Off During Mar-a-Lago Raid ‘For Agent Safety.’

Related:A Due Process Right to Record the Police.

If you only follow one link in this post, make it this one: Sad Thoughts About American Politics

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Report: Globe’s Largest Companies Colluded In ‘Likely’ Antitrust Violation To Censor Conservatives.

About a month until school starts …. again

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California elementary teacher with blood-alcohol level at twice the legal level has charges dropped as it’s “not illegal to teach drunk”

‘No Excuses’: Can a Return to Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools? Likely not but it’s a step in the right direction.

PAULA BOLYARD SPEAKS A HARD TRUTH: The Real Reason Johnny Can’t Read: Bad Parenting. Yeah. But they do NOT wanna hear this.

Gotta say I vote yes. I’D SAY THE PROBLEM IS WITH SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND THE FADS AND OUT OF THE BLUE THEORIES THEY ENCOURAGE:  The trouble with (many) teachers. At graduation the number of light blue capes was … disconcerting.

Related to ALL of the above: THE KIDS SHOULD NEGOTIATE A DEAL WITH THEIR SCHOOLS: THEY’LL GIVE UP THEIR PHONES IF THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT REQUIRES ITS TEACHERS TO HAVE LEGITIMATE ACADEMIC DEGREES, E.G., DEGREES IN SUBJECTS SUCH AS MATH, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, HISTORY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, ETC. INSTEAD “ED” DEGREES FROM ED SCHOOLS: State lawmakers push for ban on phones in schools

Veep? Condoleezza Rice Makes The Argument For School Choice

INDEED:  On education, the proof (or lack thereof) is in the pudding.

AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE, THIS IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A GOOD THING: Parents, Teachers, Lawmakers Must Unite to Untether Kids From Smartphones in Classrooms

Follow the $$$

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: NIH scientists made $710 Million in royalties from drug makers — a fact they tried to hide. New revelations from OpenTheBooks.com.

FOLLOW THE MONEY AND YOU’LL FIND THE SCIENCE: Study shows most doctors endorsing drugs on X are paid to do so.

DESPITE ALL THAT: Study: High excess death rates in the West for 3 years running since start of pandemic despite containment and vaccines.. Also – no more flu!

WHAT DID I JUST SAY ABOUT NAZIS AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION?  EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Forced retraction of Covid vaccine cancer-risk study, scientist alleges.

WE CALL IT’S A BUG, THEY THINK IT A FEATURE:  Sinister silence over vaccine damage in pregnancy. But they don’t want to talk about it, perhaps because from that way they can hear the noise of hammers building gallows.

THAT’S WHY “THE SCIENCE” IS A TRAMP:  Paper: Not one government policy during the COVID epidemic accomplished anything to stop the disease’s spread.

COVID-19 Misinformation: Brought to You by the U.S. Government

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Top FDA official overrules staff to approve gene therapy that failed trial: Peter Marks overruled three teams and two top directors.

CENSORSHIP, STRAIGHT UP: Biden Admin. Asked Amazon To Hide Vaccine Critical Books During The Pandemic.

 Army Admits Link Between COVID Vaccine and Soldier’s Heart Condition.

IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS PLAN, IF YOU DON’T TAKE THE HUMAN IMMISERATION INTO ACCOUNT:  Top virologist says long covid is real – and it’s caused by the vaccine.

Weather vs Climate vs Why are we even still here?

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CLIMATE CHANGE: U.S. hasn’t seen an EF5 tornado in 11 years, longest gap in history. I seem to recall being told that global warming was going to bring us more frequent and more violent tornadoes.

related: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Fact Checking Hurricane Severity Versus Climate Change.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Almost All Recent Global Warming Caused by Green Air Policies – Shock Revelation From NASA.

I’ll be posting this one again … WHEN GOVERNMENT PAYS FOR SCIENCE YOU GET GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA:  Academic Publisher Retracts Over 11,300 Papers and Shuts 19 Journals As It Is Overwhelmed by Fraud.

WEIRD TO SEE THIS IN A MAINSTREAM OUTLET: Challenging Modern Climate Narratives: Forgotten 1937 Aerial Photos Expose Antarctic Anomaly.

Heat Wave Sets Off New Round Of ‘Climate Crisis’ Lies

WaPo says “we’ve been accidentally cooling the planet … while warming it” … I’ve done my best to translate the clown speak for ya 🥴

This meteorology major went to war with all the climate wackos complaining about the heat last week 🔥

All Fauci, all the time

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Anthony Fauci Deserves a Gulag of His Own.

THIS SOUNDS OVER THE TOP, BUT IT REALLY ISN’T: Fauci is the single most destructive force of the 21st century, and he must be held accountable: Fauci’s record as the coronavirus point man in two White House administrations is clear and undeniable. He is responsible for advancing mountains of fraud, carnage, negligence, and suffering.

THIS MAN HAS BLOOD AND DEATH AND AGONY ON HIS HANDS:  Fauci: No Science Behind COVID Masking or Social Distancing, Blames Unvaccinated for Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths.

SHOCKER: Anthony Fauci tells Congress he’s ‘not aware’ of studies that support social distancing rules that colleges imposed.

SAY IT LOUD AND OFTEN:  COVID guidelines caused millions to suffer. Now Fauci admits ‘there was no science behind it.’

DRUGMAKERS’ ROYALTY PAYMENTS TO NIHers EXPLODED AFTER PANDEMIC: OpenTheBooks.com reports more than $710 million in drugmakers’ secret royalty payments went to NIH scientists, executives and researchers in 2022 and 2023.

That’s more than double the total of all such known payments between 2009 and 2021. Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose NIAID crew got $690 million of the $710, will be asked about these payments today by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

DEMONSTRATING THE QUICK, DECISIVE THINKING WHICH QUALIFIED HIM FOR EMERGENCY LEADERSHIP:  Dr. Anthony Fauci finally reverses course, agrees keeping schools closed during COVID was ‘mistake’.

More Vac-sanity. It’s a long summer

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YES, THEY’RE LETTING THE TRUTH DRIBBLE OUT NOW WHILE PEOPLE’S ATTENTION IS ELSEWHERE: We now know the likely truth about COVID, and how scientists lied.

KEEP DIGGING: Reps. Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie threaten CDC subpoena for vaccine efficacy data.

SCIENCE: New Research Reveals That Wearing Face Masks Did Not Reduce Risk of COVID Infection After First Omicron Wave.

THOSE VACCINES WERE APPROVED SAFE FOR USE – THIS IS OBVIOUS DISINFORMATION – ALSO DOES ANYONE HAVE PLIERS TO REMOVE MY TONGUE FROM MY CHEEK?  My three years of hell, by first vaccine victim to win compensation.

AND AGAIN, BEHOLD HOW SHOCKED MY FACE IS:  Testimony of Top Public Health Official During COVID Is Made Public – This Undermines Everything Fauci Said.

“This should go away if Rand Paul doesn’t amplify it too much.” New emails show how far Fauci and the NIH went in their coverup efforts. And thank you Dr. Paul.

SO YOU’RE SAYING COVID WAS OVERSOLD? Research reveals that more people died from hot or cold weather conditions than COVID-19 in parts of UK.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Fauci Flunky Admits to Deleting COVID Emails.

WAS THERE ANY DOUBT?  We were right! The ONS lied about covid vaccine safety.

I WAS TOLD THAT TO EVEN SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY MADE YOU A CONSPIRACY THEORIST: Scientists Decode Deadly Blood Clot Disorder Triggered by COVID Vaccines.