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I 52M am targeting a 46 min 10k and 1:45 HM this winter. I run 35 mpw but will ramp up to 47-51 mpw at the peak in December.

I have used NB 1080 with green superfeet for several years. They are fine. With regular calf work I avoid Achilles problems, don't have pain. But they're very cushy, at my last 10k I could feel the absorption stealing some of my rebound energy.

Is there a decent racing option to consider with at least a midsize drop that will also steal less energy?

We will be on a Med cruise next July-August and debating an aftish cabin on deck 15. I have not experienced any problems on other cruises in the Caribbean or Alaska Inside Passage and I expect the summer Med to be even calmer. I will bring meds like a scop patch with me in either case.

On these modern ships will Deck 15 pretty aft in these conditions experience a lot of rocking?

Right now I have a Deck 15 midship cabin but it's right below the pool and I'm trying to find a quieter option. everything else is pretty much sold out.

Thinking of going for Premier ($100 pp per day = $2800 for a 14 day cruise for two) even though we really don't drink. Am I crazy?

Biggest benefit is we would do specialty dining essentially every night. That's ?$132*14=$1848 in value right there. Rationale: our last Princess cruise was twenty years ago but we keep reading and researching that the MDR food quality has gone way down. Food is a big deal to us - we're not there to eat pizza and burgers and cafeteria food. In Europe this summer we did mostly Michelin one star and bib gourmand restaurants (distinction/value) and I guess we've aged out of mass market dining halls.

if we do have one drink each per day that is about $40*14=$560. Some froufrou non alcoholic drink and a good glass of wine.

From there it's only $400 to break even and shore excursion credit is c $300. free casual dining plus wifi plus crew grats is gravy.

Am I thinking about this wrong?

edited: thanks for so many good insights! biggest one being a reminder we will have port calls and eat in, you know, Europe sometimes. That being said the port days all wrap up by 7 pm with just two exceptions in Barcelona and Ibiza so that would never be late enough for dinner. Last time we were in b Barcelona we started tapas at 8 pm and we were literally there only ones in the restaurants most of the time.

this is Enchanted so looks like there are about 7 specialty restaurants and 4 casual and all would be included.

coffee drinks would definitely be nice for Mrs, I was toying with bringing my Nespresso but Premier would obviate the need for it, and now I see they are prohibited anyway.

I do love the idea of not having to think about money on the cruise. no nickel and diming.

Difference is $500 or about 10% pp. If I just go with guaranteed what's the worst that could happen?

This is for the (edited; sorry) Enchanted solar eclipse 2027 cruise.

I built a running workout in the app, and I synced my device

where do I find the workout? it is not visible under workouts

Also apparently I have to turn on Auto Advance by going to Run and then select Auto Advance or Auto Start. But neither of these options exist.

Salut tlm,

Est-ce que selon vous ces deux locutions-ci ont le même sens, ou est-ce qu'elles sont subtilement différentes?

Un nouveau point
sera effectué
demain

Un nouveau bilan
sera effectué
demain

merci d'avance

Week of Dec 28 is going to be popular no matter what but is there any good west coast resort where the lines are at least tolerable? Does an El Nino change your answer?

50+ year old physician here with a history of idiopathic small fiber neuropathy (SFN) for ten years. I don't have diabetes, alcoholism, an eating disorder, vitamin deficiencies, drug use, obesity, GLP1 exposure. I'm a very active even athletic person.

A year ago I started having problems with constipation, then nausea bloating early satiety and weight loss. I lost about 10% of my body weight I didn't need to lose. I had a CT, EGD, stool studies, blood labs etc. I tried maalox, sucralfate, ondansetron, pepcid, esomeprazole, Miralax, Senna, erythromycin with no consistent benefits. Daily miralax kind of keeps things under control but I still go days with no BM. I triedno FODMAPS for ten days with zero improvement. I have constant mild nausea and abdominal pain and every few weeks I'll have an episode of severe symptoms where I almost can't eat anything for 3 days, my stomach is just a bloated gurgling ball of liquid rolling around. It's not a great way to live but I know I have it better than many. I learned the hard way that some foods are a no go: boba pearls, liquid milk and yogurt (ice cream seems ok), raw veggies, dried fruit, large amounts of nuts or seeds, whole grain muesli, basically everything I ate before. But I'd get attacks anyway.

I had to wait almost nine months for a GES. And it was normal. I was glad, yet distraught because I had no explanation for my symptoms.

Fortunately As a physician I have access to good medical resources like the National Library of Medicine, UptoDate, and Open Evidence. So I learned that:

- GES can be normal even in the presence of GP (testing is variable, and doesn't measure some aspects of autonomic gastric functioning like relaxation of the muscle wall)
- you can have small intestine and colonic dysmotility even without GP and in fact it is more common to see that with SFN
- there are other tests for intestinal and colonic dysmotility see below

Not that I want to have any problem, but you all know that an explanation and some hope for treatment matters.

At any rate I was having one of my worst episodes this week and happened to have an appointment with my GI. He is not a motility specialist and doesn't seem too interested in pursuing the underlying cause, feeling I should see a neurologist about that. But he's very happy to try treatment and he does think the problem is likely dysmotility. And he recommended Motegrity.

Within two hours of my first dose I had 3 loose stools. This is not completely unheard of for me but lately it is pretty dang unusual. I already feel less nauseated and bloated. not hungry or anything but something is moving.

I am cautiously hopeful. Anything to get my guts moving again. I can't go all in on the Motegrity just yet because I'll be traveling all week and i don't want to be tied to a toilet. But I had to take something or I was worried I wouldn't do well on the plane, and I feel like progress has been made.

Now on the diagnosis front Open Evidence suggests I need to assess whole Gi tract motility with WMC, whole gut scintigraphy, or radioopaque biomarker study (the latter is what my doc suggested but he didn't really think it would be helpful). In addition OE recommends I be tested for amyloidosis; pheochromocytoma (this is very unlikely as I don't have flushing or hypertension); autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy (AAG); POTS/dysautonomia; adrenal insufficiency.

Specific tests recommended: tilt table or QSART; gAChR antibodies; serum/urine immunofixation EP and serum free light chains; colonic transit study and anorectal manometry; am cortisol and ACTH.

Although this is a GP board I know many of you also have other GI dysmotility problems, normal GES, presumptive GP, etc, thus I hope I can be welcomed into your community.

If you have any suggestions about the additional testing - or have been through any of this or been diagnosed with amyloid, AAG, etc, please share your stories. I am still learning as much as I can about these conditions and looking for symptom relief too.

Thank you

Edit to add:

Thanks for the replies and further questions so far.

I do need to work on smaller meals. It is a big problem for me to get enough calories because I run about 30 miles per week and lift weights, hike, ski, so I am always hungry and still am down about 8% of my body weight which is much of the weight I spent the last 30 years trying to build with weights. I'm not under weight but when this started i was losing 2 pounds per week and would have been dead in six months. So I try to eat, but I know I need to work on smaller meals more often. Similarly if I skip protein and fat I'm going to just wither away, I can't just eat carbs. Protein shakes are horrible for me I think it's the sorbitol or other sugar alcohols which completely stop my GI tract (which was one of the first clues about FODMAPS).

Same with water, ifI just take sips there's no way I can get 2 quarts/liters of water at baseline plus another quart or more if I just ran ten miles, I'll run out of hours in the day. But I will try to do better.

Problem is I'm in mild pain/nausea/constipation all the time but also hungry if I'm not having an attack, so not eating is hard.

GI didn't specifically say to puree food but did say smaller pieces of food would help. Has anyone tried just eating tiny pieces of food or chewing everything really really well?

I did try low FODMAPS including gluten for 10 days but I should try truly GF for a couple weeks or FODMAPS plus GP for a couple weeks.

Diverticulitis - I asked GI for a colonoscopy but he said it wasn't indicated. That's probably the only major disagreement we've had so far. I did have a screening colonoscopy about 4 years ago which was negative so it does seem less likely to have a structural problem.

Unlike pure GP I don't get sick immediately after eating, it's usually 2-3 hours later. Like GP I get more sick throughout the day probably the food I have for breakfast and lunch starts to build up. By dinner I feel sick and often skip it.

July 6-7.

We are arriving Riomaggiore July 6.

On July 7 we want to get up early, take the very first train north to Monterosso, hike the two sections south to Vernazza and Corniglia, then train back to Riomaggiore before leaving that evening.

First, is this a reasonable plan? We are very fit/experienced hikers so I don't think the hike itself will be too hard or slow.

Second, I understand these sections require a permit. It seems the earliest time slot is 9 am. a however the first train from Riomaggiore leaves much earlier than that and we want to get the earliest possible start (like 7 am). So:

- can we start before 9 am?
- if we start before 9 am do we still need a 9 am permit (because they will check later in the trail) or do we no longer need s permit because we've started our hike before 9 am)?

Third - our apartment in Riomaggiore says he can get a permit for us for free because we are staying in one of the five towns but there is a language barrier and I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Is this a service apartments provide and are the permits in fact free to guests staying in the five towns?

Thank you!

Hello,

We will be in Florence when the USA plays its round of 32 World Cup match, scheduled for July 1 8 pm Eastern time which will be July 2 2 am in Florence.

Would there be any sports bar/bar or similar to watch this game?

I know Italians are soccer crazy but they did not make the finals this year so not sure whether matches are available to watch publicly or in sports bars especially at this time of the morning.

Hey neighbors (Washingtonian here),

We will be in town for the USA Australia World Cup match and trying to figure out how to spend the evening before. Early forecast looks like a clear evening.

After dinner we could find a great sunset in QA or elsewhere; or just join the Waterfront scene including the WC entertainment zone. We haven't yet been to the new Waterfront though I'll go for a run there Friday morning either way.

Is the new Waterfront a good place to spend a mild summer evening? Sunset wouldn't compare to QA I guess but if entertainment and energy are good we can do QA any time.

I'm not familiar with Hyatt but my family member is being put up at a Hyatt House for almost 3 months. Is she eligible to earn points? Some programs don't allow for longer than one month stays I think.

Salut les Niçois(es),

Ma femme et moi passons une semaine à Nice et ce sera la toute première semaine de vacances sans enfants de notre vie, et c'est pour ça que je cherche un resto "special occasion" pour notre dernier soir. Idéalement Bib Gourmand ou même une étoile avec une belle vue et une atmosphère romantique.

Je trouve Épicentre qui a des très bons avis et des couverts dispos pour notre date. Que pensez-vous de ce resto-ci pour l'occasion décrite? Seul bémol, aucune vue de la mer.

En plus il semble offrir un menu dimanche lundi jeudi à payer à l'avance but j'admets de ne pas bien comprendre les détails ou si je capte la différence entre cet achat et le menu du jour au resto lui-même, pt c'est juste une manière d'obtenir une petite réduction à ces jours moins demandés? Mais finalement je n'ai pas envie de nous sentir contraints à la table, j'imagine que un menu de 7 plats suffit mais comment savoir si ces 7 plats sont les mêmes 7 plats du jour etc

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Flying out of PDX June 4 am and looking to be one of the first in the new line when it opens.

Hello,

We have about 5 days in Tuscany and would like your thoughts about seeing Volterra and San Gimignano. It sounds like we could go to Volterra and spend the morning and afternoon there, then maybe drive to SG for dinner, an evening walk, and sunset. They seem pretty close to each other. This would also let us see SG after most of the tourists have left for the day when I hear it may be nice and more peaceful.

What do you think of this plan?

Salut les gars,

On est deux américains qui seront à Nice durant une bonne semaine début juillet, et je cherche votre retour d'experience sur notre intinéraire. On a déjà réservé notre hôtel, Hôtel Spendid.

mardi soir arrivé
mercredi / jeudi - Le Grand Tour de Nice (bus touristique), musée Chagall, exploration de la Vielle Ville, la Promenade, et Villefranche-sur-Mer. Concernant ce bus, vaut le prix? Vu que le coût d'un taxi au musée Chagall je pensais oui mais?
vendredi - direction Monaco, Eze, pt Menton?
samedi - Antibes, plus ou moins Cannes ou St Tropez selon nos interêts et notre énergie
dimanche - Vence ou St Paul de Vence
lundi - départ

Merci d'avance !