u/Budget_Ambassador_29

Left skate rings like a tuning fork when lightly tapping on the ground with either front or rear wheel.

Right skate don't.

I've used these carbon race skates for 6 months now. Out of the box, brand new however, both skates rang like a tuning fork when lightly tapping the skate on the ground via front or rear wheel.

I've already checked all the axle and frame bolts with wrench, nothing's loose. No external sign of delamination by the exposed carbon fiber shell.

Both left and right skate still feels solid like new when actually skated and the skate doesn't make any noise at all and nearly silent even when skated over rough pavement.

Should I worry that the left skate can be rung like a tuning fork while the right skate can't?

Ironically, if I never noticed the "ringing", I wouldn't be worrying about anything about the skate at all because it felt equally the same both the left and right skate, all except for the ring.

Currently ang gamit ko is Panaracer RibMo 15,000 km na tinakbo, super legit na puncture resistant sya, bead-to-bead!! Pero may circumferential crack na sa tapat ng rim kaya hindi na safe gamitin. P1000 / tire din bili ko sa kanya.

Gusto ko din mag try ng iba. Matagtag kasi ung RibMo, sobrang tigas ng tread sa gitna, "egg" profile kasi ung tread nya.

Kahit anong brand ok sa akin, kahit Chinese brand basta lang tried and tested na puncture resistant sya bead-to-bead, pati sidewall sana puncture resistant din. OK lang din kahit 5,000K lang ung maximum mileage ng tread nya as long na puncture resistant.

For 700c 35mm. Willing din ako gumamit ng knobby MTB tires as long na pang 29er and ung width nya equivalent ng 35mm but most importantly, under P1000 / tire ung presyo.

Hindi ko kelangan ng magaan nor mabilis, nor folding para mura lang. Durability and budget talaga priority with comfort second.

thanks!!

No other problems except shirt goes up behind me where the backpack is causing skin rub with the back pack. Bag is only very mildly bouncing up and down.

Last thing I want to do is tuck in my shirt to my shorts! Not a huge fan of 80's looks!

Nung una kasi wala akong paki sa mga insoles na yan. Pero out curiousity, sinubukan ko ung insole ng Irunsvan shoes ko sa >400 km mileage na Kiprun shoes ko.

Parang na Evanescence Bring me Back to Life ung Kiprun ko! Parang mas responsive pa nga kesa brand new.

Sadly, si Irunsvan, hindi nagbebenta ng insole lang nila. Sinilip ko na both sa lazada and shopee, wala pareho.

Firm ung Irunsvan insole. Tantsa ko around 40c ung softness nya parang sa midsole ng Evo SL, 4 mm thickness at medyo firm din ung fabric liner nya parang carton. Supercritical foam na makinis - hindi mukang styrofoam. Same material ng midsole foam ng Irunsvan shoes ko. No ventilation under the heels, ball, and toes.

Wala akong makitang ganyang insoles both sa lazada or shopee or anything close. Puro plush na super soft ung available na supercritical insoles. Ung Bmai insoles ung pinaka kamuka pero 25c ung hardness nya. Malambot pa din. Sinilip ko din ung Li Ning and 361 insoles, puro mukang malalambot with thin and very flexible na fabric liner.

Last resort ko pag wala bili na lang uli ng Irunsvan shoes!🥴 Ganda kasi nung insole para sa akin, nag click sa technique ko. Thanks!

They resemble faint grainy artifacts in digital images and I still see them in well-lighted conditions.

However, they seem to flicker in a pattern that resemble turbulence in fluids so they can appear like faint white smoke or faint white fire.

It sometimes startles me catching me off guard because they can sometimes look like real smoke or faint flames.

Literally appearing like whole top of my table is steaming or on fire in a faint white fire so this isn't just "floaters" in my eyes or pressure in my optic nerve.

I have both floaters and sometimes see optical artifacts caused by pressure to the optic nerves so I know how they look like. The white smoke/white fire artifacts look entirely different and they do disappear if I look away and then look back again unlike floaters and optic nerve artifacts.

However, if I look long enough at anything where the white smoke used to be and disappeared, they come back again.

What the heck are these, I can't seem to find them in secular information sources.

52 kg, 173cm height mid forties male.

I'm currently doing 4:18 min/km average pace at my outdoor run for around 25 mins covering a distance of around 6K in tempo. I do this everyday and currently on my 3rd week without any major issues. No DOMS, no sore joints, etc and fresh each morning before run. I do have minor case of side stitch (ETAP) that I'm managing ok enough during runs through breathing technique. Some blisters that is now healing through runs with same changes to the footwear.

I'm not trying to do intervals but I run in a relatively crowded place so my pace can vary wildly from over 5 mins to slightly below 3 mins.

Hopefully when I've adapted better against ETAP, I'll improve my average pace a little bit. But ultimately, I hope to get sub 3 min/km average pace in 5K or 10K. No plans for HM or FM yet. My goal for now is simply speed in 5 and 10K.

I really don't care how long it will take me there as long as it will take me there. It's only 25min runs each day, so easy to make time for it. And I like this training plan because it's stupidly simple! Possible?

I'm still a beginner, relatively speaking but managed to do 55K this week running everyday and this is just my 2nd week since taking up running. I used to be a road cyclist and hoping to cross train both running and skating.

No leg soreness, no shin splints, and my cardio is able to handle things quite well.

ETAP is worse the beginning of this week and I had to walk the last 1K or stop mid 5K due to painful ETAP and do few minutes rest/stretches.

The last few days I've been trying to manage ETAP via deep and slow breathing during runs. However, the slow and deep breaths is also limiting my efforts to Zone 2 and can't average faster than 5min/km pace.

Today, I completed 5K at 5min pace without slowing down without ETAP but have to keep doing slow and deep breaths to avoid ETAP and I can feel at the verge of ETAP if I become sloppy with breathing.

Things seem to be improving concerning ETAP but seems to be a major and rather super annoying performance bottleneck. 🥴 I still have plenty of energy and legs still fresh after 5K but my instincts is forcing me to quit at 5K to avoid running into ETAP.

Without the option of lengthening the runs, I couldn't speed up either other than in short intervals to avoid messing my breathing rhythm. I could actually hit 3min pace in intervals if I'm willing to risk ETAP by dropping my breathing rhythm but trying my best not to.

It seems I can progress a lot faster but ETAP is holding me back severely!😖

I finger-tightened all the bolts with Allen key after doing wheel rotation maintenance.

The day after, still not using the skates after rotation, I decided to remove the wheels after realizing I made a mistake in rotation.

However, this time, I have to use Allen key + 1 ft tube and it took a lot of effort with both hands to loosen all the bolts!

All bolts tightened all by themselves!

I've been experiencing this issue for a while now. It's even worse if I have used the skates and have to use even longer, 2ft tube to loosen the bolts!

I never put any oil nor grease in my axle bolts nor frame threads. Not even a trace of thread locker. They're bare metal /paint. In fact, I prefer NOT to lubricate the threads because oil/grease will attract dirt and grit which can accelerate wear of the threads as well as ruin the appearance of the skates.

I realized the carbon fiber, thin padding, and low cut allows speed skates to dissipate heat better than any other skates making them the most comfortable pair to use during summer or during hot spells.

I was skating the other day and it rained. My skates got wet and I thought water got inside the boot but it was actually just the carbon fiber shell getting cold from the water while the inside is still dry. Worse still, the metal mounts goes through the shell and I can easily feel it with my feet colder than the rest of the shell

This got me thinking, it could become a bit of an issue with the cold easily passing through the shell and into your feet.

Wearing thick socks is not an option because my skates is an exact fit. My feet simply won't get into the boots if I wore anything thicker than ultra thin socks.

My initial idea is to cover the outside of the boot with insulating foam but still leaves the metal mounts cold because it would still conduct the cold from the frame.

Maybe cut round neoprene patches and put them over the mounts from inside the boot but unsure how will that affect fit and handling.

I don't really want to wear a different skate like a hard boot for colder seasons. Don't want to undo the muscle memory wearing quite differently fitting boots.

My low cut speedskate is comfortably centered and aligned when just gliding with wheels perpendicular against the road surface. A very mild tendency to force my feet to supinate but never been an issue.

When doing easy double push strides at mild angles on the outside edges, the skates feel perfectly centered with zero tendency to pronate nor supinate achieving maximum comfort.

However, if I increase the effort to about tempo and beyond going deeper on the outside edges, I begin feeling my skates forcing pronation. Trying to counteract it raises the effort a bit and feel like I'm wasting some energy.

I'm reluctant to adjust the frames towards the inside because I also jump a lot in these skates. Some of the kerbs and barriers in our streets are knee high which means jumping higher and prefer landing with zero or almost zero tendency to either pronate or supinate for obvious reasons.

But is this something I can adapt to simply by practicing more until I get comfortable or change in technique? I found that higher cadence strides allows higher speed without having to carve deeper on the edges and somewhat useful on crowded streets/paths because the stride width is narrower.

Are there racers who actually have significantly higher and narrower strides than average, even doing well with such style? Thanks.

I'm just wondering. No new posts for a very long time. Weeks now, I think.

Saying that "Jesus loves you" to random people is most likely a lie even if Jesus existed.

In the book of John, particularly from chapters 13 up to the last chapter, Jesus made it clear he only loved those who believe his teachings. Jesus clearly did not love his enemies.

He also commanded his disciples to love each other - in proper context, it does not include loving their enemies nor people who refuse to believe.

The Synoptic Gospels say otherwise and includes loving enemies which I think is Pauline corruption.

Being nice to tyrants is what keeps them in power. Duh!

Loving your enemies is what keeps evil in place and nothing more than marketing for this horrific religion!

I had my first > marathon distance session with my speed skates.

Fine tuned my DP technique in this session. Incredibly you'll never hear this in video tutorials but the lifted foot swing is a critical part of the technique and maybe >50% of the technique.

I found that by simply gliding with both skates on the ground, side-by-side and in race posture hunched down and both arms tucked at the back and then lifting and swinging the left skate to the right behind the planted leg makes/forces the planted skate to initially carve to the left and then to the right.

Thus, executing the under push and initiating the double push. Repeat it for the rest of the strides in a relaxed manner without falling and you're effectively double pushing!

It sounds simple but only IF you are already quite experienced and comfortable carving left and right on just one leg on both edges.

But you need strong hamstrings and calves for it OR you'll cramp so badly!

The easiest marathon distance I ever did on skate and it's mostly due to technique.

They seem attached to evil too much.

When I made a thread about eliminating Satan in another sub, many Christians disapprove of it and seem to think it's even more evil to try to do so.

The most Christian nations (highest membership by % of population) have also one of the highest crime rates, among the highest gov't corruption in the world. Crime bosses in these nations are also Christians.

Incredibly, they rank alongside nations run by "terrorist Islamic regimes" in crime rates, human rights abuses, and national corruption.

If you approve of evil, you become evil too I guess.

Just one of the many things that got me out of Christianity.

Something like NTN LLU 608 full contact shield bearings from Japan. Not exactly designed for speed but for longevity in the worst possible circumstances.

I'm currently using my speed skates for commuting too but the rainy season is fast approaching.

I also skate in very dusty roads and sometimes parts of the road have completely eroded and I'm going over gravel. The commute can also get off-road over sandy soil. I probably need bearings that can keep out both fine dust, water, and also mud.

I've heard people using waterproof bearings on regular skates but never heard of use on speed skates.

If someone does, what is the impact on wheel wear and speed? I don't intend to race on this setup but my commutes and fitness sessions can reach 50 kph on bearings like Bones Super Reds.

I think it would be worth the upgrade. Some might suggest just buy cheap set of bearings whenever the bearings have gone bad but I could be seeing rain on a daily basis. It gets expensive fast to replace whole set of bearings every few days. It's also waste of time to maintain bearings every now and them. Zero maintenance/worries would be nice.

The frame in particular looks flimsy compared to urban skates and the carbon fiber boot proving some support to the frame is probably brittle compared to the hard plastic shell of urban boots.

Will speedskates survive hitting sewer covers or bumpy patches / small potholes / stones I missed seeing, or jumping/hopping over these at >40 kph?

There are no bike / jogging paths where I live so the only place to go are poor quality bumpy roads or the extremely bumpy sidewalks with "waffle iron" ramps in many places.

The frame is 6061 Aluminum which is more flexible or less brittle than 7075 although built thicker and heavier and I weigh 120 lb /54 kg with size 40 (adult size) skate.

Even though I weigh little, I think smaller boots are built significantly lighter and not as strong as bigger boots.

Does this mean I can no longer skate-commute with speed skates?

I've watched videos of Joey Mantia skating on the roads across the city or in the countryside on speedskates, even hitting potholes and sewer covers at high speed. But these guys are likely to be sponsored and can easily replace their skates and not traveling over bad roads up to 100 km each week.

I'm using T-handle allen wrench without leverage multiplier. Can I tighten the frame mounts bolt with all the strength in my arms like I do with my hard boot urban skate?

The boot is carbon fiber and frame is 6061 aluminum. The carbon fiber part of the boot mount gets between the aluminum frame and the metal threads embedded in the boot mount. I'm worried that carbon fiber could crack or weaken if the bolt is tightened too much.

My urban boot also has plastic between the aluminum frame and the metal thread buried in the boot mount. I tighten the bolt with all the strength in my arms but the plastic part of the mount squeezed is totally unaffected by the pressure.

Does the carbon shell of the boot even crack or made of flexible plastic base instead of brittle epoxy? Thanks

I started making this part of my daily prayers few months ago. Well, not just eliminating The Devil / Satan from this universe but also from everything, from all people, from every matter, atom, etc.

Alongside that prayer, I also pray that all injustices be removed from this universe and from all people/matter/atoms.

So far, nothing seems to be happening to the world not unless the crazy oil price fluctuations and the whole world gearing for war has anything to do with it.

Would anybody else make this prayer with me? To have the biggest and the baddest, the ruler of all demons and all evil spirits and all injustices be eliminated/destroyed from all reality?

I'm just wondering. I'm a former Christian of at least 20 years. Finally, I realize, incredibly, from the bible itself that YHWH is also the Devil / Satan.

I'm now praying to myself (not to any gods) for the extermination of YHWH from this Universe/Reality.

That YHWH is just the manifestation of those who wants this demon to exist. This means its existence (if it does) can be undone. Its dark influence in this reality removed. This entity can be made to cease in existence permanently.

I believe the removal of this boss demon from our universe/reality will cut off all the evil people's source of spiritual empowerment. Think about corrupt politicians and crime lords suddenly losing their "luck" and global events shifting against their favor.

Does anybody else pray for YHWH's extermination/permanent cessation of existence? YHWH, the granddaddy, the biggest, and the baddest of all demons?

The evil god of the Old Testament. Jesus strongly implicated in the Book of John that the god of the OT is the Devil / Satan.

From past personal experiences, spiritual, metaphysical, and scientific studies, I have formed theories that collective intelligences can manifest as singular entity.

Occultists aren't just feeding the Devil its strength and power for The Devil is also YHWH.

From personal experiences, I believe this entity is real. From personal theories, I also believe there are physical/destructible aspects to this entity. In other words, I believe this entity can be destroyed / killed, forced to cease in existence permanently for all eternity.

And as insane as it sounds, I constantly pray for this entity's extermination.

If you're familiar with Stephen King's "IT". I think YHWH shares the fictional entity's qualities as well as its weaknesses.

Don't give it fear, don't fear it but pray for its destruction. The destruction of YHWH I strongly believe will usher in an era of eternal peace and prosperity for all, not just a few!!!

Would anybody else dare make the same prayer? Unsure who to pray to? Then pray to yourself. You have no idea of the power within you that you possess and I don't wish to be the only one bragging about it when YHWH is finally destroyed!