this weekend i discovered how unfit i have become after riding 190km of the 240km I had set to do when I woke up on Saturday morning. The ride was to take me from Nairobi to Meru but my legs kinda gave up at https://www.strava.com/activities/3121547435/embed/745532c392192c46d4fd392eb98c9c869c7c321f“>Runyenjes then I rode back to Embu and took a van back to Nairobi.
In other news, race science seems to be back on the limelight.
When will the Amish see the light?
Have a pleasant week everyone and keep fit. It’s good for the sack and all.
Random thoughts 
I was hoping the โrace scienceโ article was somehow tied to helping you finish the last 50k of your bicycle trek. How disappointing. Stupid is alive and well.
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Nothing of the sort.
Stupid is alive and abundant
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Riding my stationary bike every day.
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I find riding my stationary bike more taxing than being out in the open
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I use that & my manual treadmill to exercise after hip replacements. Much better than trying to navigate snow & ice in winter to try to go for walks. I don’t have an outdoor bike.
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Stationary bike is much safer too
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Very true, especially with so many now who can’t drive without using their phones.
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I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. The one advantage of our California drought this year is I have been able to ride most weekends over the “winter”. Of course, said weather is absolutely SLAYING me with allergies. Couldn’t breathe and my diaphragm is Hurting from the dry itch at the very bottom of my lungs.
My gym has a “8000 foot room” which evacuates oxygen. I will use that some times. ๐ฆ
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Is it coastal? I have ridden in the coast & they are among my easiest rides. Very minimal climbs but with sickening humidity.
Stationary bikes are not fun
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Mak! I’d very much like to hear your thoughts on The Bell Curve. Have you read the book, or written about it on this blog?
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Mugo, life is short so it can’t be used reading something like that lol. I am not about to read it
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That’s a big bloody ride. What’s the terrain like?
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Climbs and some level terrain. My Strava shows an elevation gain of 2.2km
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Tough ride. I bet the feeling at the end, though, is pretty good.
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It was tough & the heat was crazy.
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Damn, that is A LOT of climbing. I consider 1,000 meters in a day a big day!
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1000 metres climb is good enough
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I think race science is probably correct, especially when it comes to the particular race making such claims about the intelligence of every other race.
After all. how bloody stupid would one have to be to even posit such a theory?
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It has such lights as Peterson and others. And many other unknowns.
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Jordan Peterson? Well, now, that tells it’s own story.
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tiledb loves to quote Petersen as some kind of truth-telling contrarian sage. I lol’ed
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they are fighting identity politics ๐
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I’ve never understood the fascination with Peterson.
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I gave up trying to understand
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As he once said, He’s surfing a hundred foot wave and eventually he is very likely going to drown.
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Confirmation Bias. He confirms their own prejudices, so he must be right. I am surprised J.P. is not an evangelist. He would do so well in the apologetics field.
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He is an evangelist of the secular kind
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Well, he acknowledges he is Christian.
He also has some sort of anxiety issues if I’m not mistaken?
Hasn’t he recently spent time in Russia undergoing treatment?
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Yes, J P. They see themselves as fighting the establishment
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Because the local SJWs at Eastern Southern State Teachers’ College have so much power when they got canceled Milo’s trollfest the other week. Versus the power of people like the Kochs, Trump, the Casino King Adelson, and all the evangelical nuts who own mansions in Washington D.C>
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It’s a crazy world & the madhouse is in charge!
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Ah, “race science” again. The idjits promoting it need to race to the side of a deep cliff and jump off.
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Or they should be helped to a cliff
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The legs are the first things to go… then, it’s all downhill after that – lol!
I bought some trinkets at a rural country store some years back. The owner proudly proclaimed that he was Amish. I replied: “Really? Wow! I heard medical science is working on a cure.”
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Usually it is my stomach muscles and bum that give in first, then the legs follow and from there even holding the handlebars become a chore.
So was he Amish who had seen the light?
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I don’t think so. He didn’t seem to appreciate my sarcasm. Imagine that – lol!
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We can classify him as a slow member for the specie ๐
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Did he use a cash register or do everything on a hand-made paper ledger? If the former, he is obviously an apostate. Probably spoke up against diddling the little girls and the Big Mucks exiled him.
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I don’t remember seeing a cash register, but I wasn’t really paying much attention to that. His pride about being Amish meant absolutely nothing to me. I couldn’t care less – ergo, my sarcasm.
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If at first we don’t succeed, we simply need to try again! Good luckon your next attempt! Love and naked hugs! ๐
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I plan on trying it a second time second half of the year
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Wish you the best! ๐
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I’ve found the secret is to start at the highest elevation and roll downhill. ๐
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There is a 10to4 race that follows this principle and which I think you should come and try
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I have seen the slow crawl of so called scientific, racism, rising over the last few years. I blame the success of the alt right shit show. Every shit for brains Mr. Smarty Britches, with an audience to rile up, takes advantage of the sheeple who are probably already racist anyway, and who never bother to do any fact checking, nor would they listen for a moment to an opposing rational, fact based, view.
The tRumpocracy in action. The Faux News shit and shinola. The alt right blight. And the assholes are crawling out of the woodwork like roaches.
That Amish story is a gut punch. What is it with religion and the high rate of sexual abuse? When will people start asking why? Why does god need so much of your time and your little children? Why do the gods need so much of our money? Why do the crimes committed in these religious communities always get swept under the rug? Who the hell needs that shit?
Sad but true, my own heritage is strong with Pennsylvania Dutch (Mennonite branch.) Reportedly with many of my ancestors high up in the clergy. I am sure glad I grew up without any of that nonsense.
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They have their supporters among Steve Bannon and others.
It’s like rape and other forms of abuse is the story of organized religion everywhere
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Because of our 2020 drought, everything seems to be blooming early. I have this horrific dry cough….it’s literally like a nasty itch at the bottom of the lungs. Nothing to cough up!
BUT, the steroid inhaler seems to be working, and I got a nice ride in on Saturday that did not involve me gasping for breath at the top of the (steep!) hills!
Better riding ahead, Maka! (Now I can only stop coughing. My diaphragm aches!
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biking should help with the coughing. you should be focused on pedaling you will have no time to cough.
Get well quick mate
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LOL. It actually does. The coughing days seem to be worse after a weekend of exposing myself to the ocean of pollen here. I am going to buy some good cough medicine this afternoon. ๐ฆ
Sorry about the double-whining about the coughing.
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You will be well.
No reason to be sorry
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Hey Maka, not sure if you noticed how…SPECIAL your countrymen are. This probably excluded your politicians, amiright?
“This finding has been reinforced by the changes in average IQ scores observed in some populations. The most rapid has been among Kenyan children โ a rise of 26.3 points in the 14 years between 1984 and 1998, according to one study. The reason has nothing to do with genes. Instead, researchers found that, in the course of half a generation, nutrition, health and parental literacy had improved.”
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These days I just agree with George Carlin. I look at the clowns my country people elected to be their leaders and I ask whether it was a competition for a circus run or what went wrong
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