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Report: St Kilda emerges as potential home for Irish speedster (Conor McKenna)

Main Post: Report: St Kilda emerges as potential home for Irish speedster (Conor McKenna)

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Can someone please tell me how to feel about this?

Forum: r/AFL

Summary report [St.Louis & Princeton]

Main Post: Summary report [St.Louis & Princeton]

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Source for received report

St. Louis being ara ara to skk there while Princeton tries to imitated on what St Louis did. Guess skk won't take this lightly easily.... It's good to see more art of Princeton here :D

Forum: r/AzureLane

Morning Report: Georges St-Pierre on Khamzat Chimaev’s big weight miss: ‘It’s hard to forgive’

Main Post: Morning Report: Georges St-Pierre on Khamzat Chimaev’s big weight miss: ‘It’s hard to forgive’

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I like how dramatic the title sounds lmao.

Like GSP and Khamzat once had a great relationship, but Khamzat betrayed him with this weight miss and now GSP just can’t go on with him anymore. He’s been burned one too many times. 🕯

Forum: r/MMA

Mar. 08, 2023 - St. Patrick's Day Update - Bug Report Megathread

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Greetings reddit!

The patch is now live on all pc servers. Please check the patch notes here.

Drop any bugs you encounter today into the comments down below. Thank you for your patience today.

*St. Patrick's Day Bundle Release Date*

The St. Patrick's Day bundles will be available March 17 - 26. We have corrected the typo in our patch notes. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Top Comment: [LPS]sinnzy

Forum: r/Planetside

[ RACE REPORT ] FIRST HALF MARATHON: GO! St. Louis

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Race Information

• Name: Go! St. Louis Half Marathon
• Date: April 2, 2023
• Distance: 13.1 miles
• Location: St. Louis, MO
• Website: https://www.gostlouis.org/marathon-weekend
• Time: 2:14:17

Goals

Splits

Background

21F who started consistently running around two years ago. I played a lot of sports in high school and have been passionate about strength training for about 5 years. It wasn’t until COVID hit that I got interested in running.

Training

I started training in January and used Nike Run Club’s half marathon plan primarily. I really liked the guided speed runs on the app and would definitely recommend it for beginners. I ran around 5 times per week and kept up my strength training at 3/4x per week. The plan consisted of two easy runs, two speed, and one easy long run for most weeks. I had two 32 mile weeks at three and four weeks out and pretty much tapered after that. I also did my longest run of 12.5 miles at a recovery pace (12:00 min/mile) two weeks before today’s race. For the last two weeks I decreased my mileage and strength training and increased my static stretching.

I’ve raced a 5k three times and my best time was 24:02 but I haven’t officially raced anything longer. With that being said, I really didn’t have a lot of expectations for myself. I just wanted to finish in under 3 hours, not walk, and of course have fun.

Pre-race

The week before the race I stuck to the plan which was tapering. This past week consisted of three recovery runs and one speed. I tried to prioritize my sleep and make sure I was eating enough. On Tuesday, for whatever reason, my stomach got really upset and I didn’t sleep most of the night. This made me really nervous because I thought I was getting sick but it passed after a day (really weird, I know). Maybe I ate something weird or I was straight up nervous... I still don’t know what it was. Two days before the race I ran a two mile shakeout and yesterday I rode the bike for 35 minutes and stretched. This morning I woke up at 4:30 because the race started at 7am and I had a 45 minute drive to the course. I had some prepped overnight oats with banana and blueberries and sipped on some Gatorade and water. It was 35 degrees this morning so I knew I needed a good warmup. I mainly did some dynamic stretches, a little warmup run, and took one last trip to the bathroom before starting.

Race

Not much to say here other than the fact that there were a lot of hills throughout the course and boy they were a real pain. The last stretch before the finish had a massive hill that about took me out lol. I started the race in Wave G, which was the 2:45 pace group. Like I said, this was my first HM and I really didn’t know how it was going to go. I started pretty fast (10:10 for the first mile) and tried to slow it down for the next couple of miles. I stayed behind the 2:45 pacer for a while but sped up at mile 4 and 5. Mile 6 and 7 were a bit slower because of the elevation and I was really trying to slow my heart rate. I used 1 strawberry banana GU at mile 7 and drank my electrolyte mix from my handheld water bottle for most of the race. I also didn’t use the water/Gatorade stations other than once at mile 12. The last few miles is where I really picked it up and passed the 12:20 pacer. My hip and toe were causing me some pain at this point but I kept speeding up. The last 0.5 really took it out of me with the steep hill but I managed to sprint the straightaway to finish pretty strong. Other than that I pretty much did my best to stay consistent with the paces and focus on one mile at a time.

Post-race

I really shocked myself with my pace and am really proud of myself, especially since this was my first HM. I know I might be considered slow compared to a lot of you but I would definitely still classify myself as a beginner and did my best! After I finished I grabbed a banana and got my medal! My boyfriend also took me out to a celebratory breakfast!

I just want to say that this race was really fun and showed some of the great scenery of downtown St. Louis. I definitely recommend this race and will be doing it again next year! I’m grateful to the people who put the race on and all the volunteers that handed out water and food during the race and at the end. If anyone else raced today please comment below!!! I’m going to rest this week and hopefully get back to training in two weeks. Already planning my second HM.

Made with a new race report generator created by u/herumph.

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I ran the half too! It was also my first half marathon, that hill at the end was brutal!

Forum: r/running

Trip Report of the Loowit Trail around Mt. St. Helens from someone who just moved to Washington

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Video: https://youtu.be/H4Kj8-Babeg

Lighterpack: https://lighterpack.com/r/qsb0xu (no puffy - reg neoair no ccf pad - 2017 hexamid as shelter)

When I was in high school I started to have these ideas of hiking and camping in national parks and go on these big backpacking trips. At the time I didn’t know there was a big community behind hiking and backpacking or thru hikers going out for months at a time. My first few trips I drove 3 hours from my Cleveland, Ohio suburb to get to Allegheny National Forest where I didn’t even look up trails or have plans for camping or a multi day trip. I started to become a weekend warrior after that and tried to go hiking as much as possible. Flunking out of college while looking at the permit map for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which I would have to drive 8 hours for. Now hiking and especially thru hiking has become my number 1 priority in life and last year I finally took the plunge and quit my job to hike the PCT. I made it about half way before my bank account started to look so sad I quit checking it anymore. After that I went back to Ohio and started working again with the dream of coming out west again in 2021 to do the CDT. But more things than hiking plans happen in this world and I now find myself back in Washington where my girlfriend got her first full time engineering job.

Last weekend I drove an hour and forty-five minutes with my girlfriend to Mt. Rainier National Park where we couldn’t even get a mile into a day hike because of the snow pack. SNOW PACK!? The idea of snow being on the ground in the middle of July is just completely out of this world for my Ohio brain. Ok now time for the actual trip report. The next day I drove 2 hours from Olympia, Wa to the southern trailhead of Mt. St. Helens. It’s so bizarre growing up away from these things because I always remember in elementary school talking about this big volcano that blew up out west not too long ago. Then finally coming out here and actually seeing these big mountains in person, it’s completely different to what your childhood brain puts onto something that spews lava into the world. I mostly did the Loowit Loop because you don’t need any permits that you needed to sign up for months in advance. Things are for sure still closed because of COVID and the northern trailhead was closed. So I started at the southern climbers bivouac trailhead. I knew that because this was on the side of a mountain the trail would be tough to get to and climbs would be intense. So the first climb up to the trail was really tough and I realized how damn out of shape I’ve gotten since I left the PCT. It’s just so awful how doing nothing will take away all the strength you’ve built up.

I did this trail clockwise starting off boulder hopping for the first 2 or 3 miles. Day 1 wasn’t really that tough I started pretty late around 2 and after talking to some people who were doing the loop decided I had to stop pretty early because of camping availability. So I stopped pretty early around 7. There were a lot of big crevices where ropes just hung down the most feasible route down, some of which had rivers flowing down. I ran into a lot of these glacial rivers but the water was really sooty and ashy. I’m not sure if you can drink that grey water or not but for the most part I tried to just wait until clearer water. That night I camped at one with nice clear water. Some other people I met didn’t want to drink from random streams on the trail.

Day 2 started off with a big old climb and it really took my endurance early in the day. That whole day was spent on the northern and western part of the loop. Things really opened up since the clouds from the day before were all gone and slowly Rainier poked its head out. Adams made a large appearance and Hood was hanging out for a long while too. This part of the trail, and really everything but the eastern part of the loop, was extremely exposed. My short shorts definitely burned my thighs a bit. Good thing I’ve been struggling in the hiking shirt department and was testing out a sun hoody I made. I would have roasted in anything else. I ran into about the same amount of people I thought I would see. I saw an ultralight dude but I was just dying around 2 with the sun exposure and just being out of shape. I just pretty much stared at him after he said I must have a light pack. Sorry guy but any other time I would have sat and chatted. After the northern part of the trail being really open you work your way to Windy Pass which people pretty openly talked about being a little sketchy. Going up the north side I didn’t think it was too bad but going down the south side I thought was pretty damn sketch. It was pretty much just switchbacks on an ashy mountain. It wasn’t like I was concerned about falling to my death but it just was like really careful movement the whole time and I would sort of stand still plotting my next moves contemplating how uncomfortable it is feeling like I would just slide down at any wrong movement. I guess that’s sort of the nature of sketchy hiking but coming from Ohio I just never have moments like this in my hikes. It’s really awesome and I want to seek out crazy stuff like this, but I’m not an adrenaline junky by any stretch.

The eastern part of the loop was also really nice and open. A lot more wild flowers and honestly some nice camping spots even though they’re all dry camps. This probably had the best views of St. Helens. My caltopo doesn’t have the name of the lake I camped next to but it had a really cool waterfall coming straight out of the mountain. I watched a cool bird I’ve never seen dive for fish and tried to get it on film for like an hour. I was going to cowboy camp in the clearing next to the lake under the brush to avoid moisture, but there were more bats than I’ve ever seen in one spot. One in particular was getting very brave in getting close to me. I was just sitting on my pad looking like damn this thing is like going to come swoop in on me? Are bats like an issue in the area? I never saw this on the PCT. I’m guessing it wanted bugs that were swarming me. So I went to the lake and set up my hexamid. I’ve just been using tarp and bivy and trying my neoair again but the neoair in the hexamid is just a no go for me. Super wet quilt each day. Last day was pretty short to get back down.

I for sure was out of shape doing this but I wouldn’t recommend doing this whole loop in one day. The elevation was pretty tough and it would be a really rough day. I would for sure do at least 1 day overnight where you have a few hours to take out some miles the first day. Or do it with some friends over 3 days and have some epic views and take a siesta during the more exposed sections. I’m just psyched to be able to go out every weekend and I’m hoping to go to Olympic National Park since I was waiting on getting a bear can to get out of the treeline.

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I guess that’s sort of the nature of sketchy hiking but coming from Ohio I just never have moments like this in my hikes. It’s really awesome and I want to seek out crazy stuff like this, but I’m not an adrenaline junky by any stretch.

You should think about climbing Broken Top or Diamond Peak. They're both long, volcanic scrambles along steep ridges. You get the same excitement of needing to plan your steps, and it comes mostly without the risk of falling to your death.

Broken Top has two high-stakes spots where you need to tiptoe along cliffs, but the ground is solid. Don't be afraid of THE WALL that people warn about. It's a very simple 12' climb for anyone who's confident with technical scrambles and basic rock climbing. The hardest part is the first three feet where you have to start with your body in an awkward position. Once your feet are off the ground, then the climb is very easy.

Diamond Peak is safer in the sense that you have to go out of your way to get into a position where you might fall, but it's riskier in that you need some rudimentary navigation skills.

Forum: r/Ultralight

Lions injury report - WR Amon-Ra St. Brown (quad) FP

Main Post: Lions injury report - WR Amon-Ra St. Brown (quad) FP

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First time taking an elite receiver like Amon Ra after drafting guys like JT and Jacobs first couple of rounds. Watching him get 20 targets was a revelation. Tears welled up until I could cry no more, only seeing the Sun in my wake.

Forum: r/fantasyfootball