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Im sorry if this isn't a post with a specific problem or question. I am 15 years old in the USA going into the sumemr of my sophmore year, and I honestly want to be a entrepreneur instead of work a corporate job, and I would have to start working on it now.

I do have good people around and connections to help me but I want genuine advice. So far my plan was to learn general marketing principles to experiement and create my own strategy, and learn and practice other skills like how to properly use AI to program (not just shitty shallow vibe coding), but I feel like I overthink way too much when looking for painpoints/solutions.

Do you think it would be a better idea to start out with something extremely simple and at least ship it and get one customer and learn from it, even if it does "fail"?

Also this won't discourage me, but how likely is it for an entrepreneur to launch a successful business that lasts if they stay at it for lets say 4 years (till the end of my highschool)? I don't care about millions just a stable company that makes money.

Tell me what you think and please bestow any experience to save me from potential trouble, and how to make the most out of my journey especially in this modern world with AI craze and all the stuff on social media and LinkedIn.

Paradise or Sunrise at Mt Ranier for First Time Tourist?

Next week I'm going to be roadtripping around washington state and am planning to spend a day trip from near Enumclaw to either Paradise or Sunrise in the early morning, but am pretty bent between the two. We aren't the most avid hikers but can handle easy to moderate trails of medium distance (maximum distance is probably 6 ish miles roundtrip) and appreaciate beautiful drives and landscapes (which I'm guessing both paradise and sunrise have).

My current plan is just to go to the side with clear weather, and to decide between the two if both have good weather (or bad). Also include any other places/detours to stop at depending on each route you go.

Next week I'm going to be roadtripping around washington state and am planning to spend a day trip from near Enumclaw to either Paradise or Sunrise but am pretty bent between the two. We aren't the most avid hikers but can handle easy to moderate trails of medium distance (maximum distance is probably 6 ish miles roundtrip) and appreaciate beautiful drives and landscapes (which I'm guessing both paradise and sunrise have). For a first timer which side should I go to?

My current plan is just to go to the side with clear weather, and to decide between the two if both have good weather (or bad).

After spending over three years pouring so much time and effort into this sport, i've returned with nothing but failures. I convinced myself if I kept trying harder I would finally achieve my goals. However, even during the one season of an AAU team I actually made, I couldn't do anything. I was absolutely terrible and the coach would sometimes blame me for running plays wrong even if I didn't because I was usually wrong. It felt like I lost my ability to shoot, drive in, or even make an open layup, and it was absolutely humiliating and draining. I also saw how truly toxic and egoistic this community can be with my teammates and other people I met. And then during tryouts this year I still couldn't move or do anything, and even though I was playing lockdown defense and was scoring the ball, the coach was never looking since the scrimmages were so unorganized. I took a break for a few months, and when I returned, I was complete ass and felt like I was already super behind. My entire basketball career I've suffered from incosistency, freezing/overthinking, confidence, and more related, partly because of my ADHD (which I only got diagnosed with a month ago). I still love this sport but I feel like there is too much pain I associate with it as well. I did T&F this winter and spring and it felt like a breath of fresh air, but I'm not sure if I want to spend my time with T&F or basketball for the rest of my highschool. Does anyone have a similar experience and advice to give?

Because it feels like any effort I put into this game has 0 results. If I am insane in practice or getting better, I've learned to know that I'll probably still be ass in an actusl game or place where it matters.

Sorry for the very long post.

After spending over three years pouring so much time and effort into this sport, i've returned with nothing but failures. I convinced myself if I kept trying harder I would finally achieve my goals. However, even during the one season of an AAU team I actually made, I couldn't do anything. I was absolutely terrible and the coach would sometimes blame me for running plays wrong even if I didn't because I was usually wrong. It felt like I lost my ability to shoot, drive in, or even make an open layup, and it was absolutely humiliating and draining. I also saw how truly toxic and egoistic this community can be with my teammates and other people I met. And then during tryouts this year I still couldn't move or do anything, and even though I was playing lockdown defense and was scoring the ball, the coach was never looking since the scrimmages were so unorganized. I took a break for a few months, and when I returned, I was complete ass and felt like I was already super behind. My entire basketball career I've suffered from incosistency, freezing/overthinking, confidence, and more related, partly because of my ADHD (which I only got diagnosed with a month ago). I still love this sport but I feel like there is too much pain I associate with it as well. I did T&F this winter and spring and it felt like a breath of fresh air, but I'm not sure if I want to spend my time with T&F or basketball for the rest of my highschool. Does anyone have a similar experience and advice to give?

Because it feels like any effort I put into this game has 0 results. If I am insane in practice or getting better, I've learned to know that I'll probably still be ass in an actusl game or place where it matters.

Sorry for the very long post.

I'm looking for a relatively reliable and accurate timing system that isn't incredibly expensive or hard to set up. I've seen the Skillz timing gates but according to most people they are extremely unreliable and give incosistent data. The Jawku wristbands are also useless for me because I can't use them for flying sprints. I'm willing to spend a decent amount (meaning anything thats sorta in the middle ground of relative prices) in return for the accuracy and consistency.

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Also, how do you measure out distances on a synthetic track? Are there any markers that can help you or do I need to buy a measuring tool for maximum accuracy?

There's so much information online it's confusing. Lets say I'm done with my deload from my season and I've already got back into slightly higher intensity work as of now, if my indoor season started december 1st, how would I periodize my schedule? I'm a 15 year old male athlete that does the 200m and 400m but is mostly a beginner, and needs to work on top speed and speed endurance.

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Also not sure if this plays a role but my body adapts really quickly to new stimulus but gets used to it just as quickly aswell, at least when it comes to resistance training (hypertrophy and strength) and lactic workouts, haven't been consistent enough for long enough to guarantee. My main sport was basketball as well so I have some tendon stiffness and durability.

How does periodization work as beginner? I've done tendon intensive stuff in the past and such so I'm not completely prone but there's so much information i'm confused?

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How long should you do your GPP for? What is each phase of the training look like? As of right now I have 5.5 months till the beginning of my indoor track season. I'm currently in my GPP and have been doing it for 25 days at this point. When should I transition to different training and what should I do? This is my current GPP:

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Day 1: Acceleration

Sprints: 4x10m, 3x20m, 2x30m (Flat grass backyard, 100% effort). Full Recovery

Extensive plyos + Gym (general non-specific strength)

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Day 2: Active Recovery

Workout: 1.5 miles, very easy recovery run

2x100m strides @ 80%

Regular Recovery (ie. Stretching, Foam rolling, etc.)

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Day 3: Rest day

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Day 4: Acceleration/Hills

6x20m hill sprints. Full Recovery

Extensive plyos & Gym (general non-specific but posterior chain focused)

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Day 5: Aerobic Base & Active Recovery

Workout: 1.5 miles, very easy recovery run

2x80m strides @ 80%

Regular Recovery (ie. Stretching, Foam rolling, etc.)

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Day 6: Extensive tempo

Workout: 2 sets of 6x100m @ 70% effort. Rest 45 seconds between reps, 3 minutes between sets.

Injury Prevention

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Day 7: Rest day

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How much longer should I do this for and what should I trainsition to as the year passes by? I am hoping to do a short to long approach.

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I am a 15M and am currently unmedicated and untreated. Even though my adhd caused me so much burnout and troubles, in school it gets especially worse. Specifically when reading or processing information. I'm usually already sleep-deprived at school which makes it bad, and I get bad tension headaches and feel like somethings stuck in my head all the time. So whenever i'm forced to read and comprehend information most of the time, i'll reread the same sentence 10 times to actually understand what its saying, and if I read too fast i'll need to go back. Its super annoying and isn't exclusive to reading, in general when I have to do something my brain won't be able to turn in and I have to willpower my way through everything, barely managing to get what other people call "very good grades" but with 0 energy left. Any tips for this?

Also unrelated but how to recover? My brain literally never shuts up and lets me enjoy and relax, the weekends don't feel rested but rather filler to go back to school, I feel like i'm getting anhedonia as well.

Going with a family of 4 to the PNW and planning to do it as a day trip from Seattle sometime in mid-july. I'm stuck between whether to do Paradise or Sunrise at Mt Ranier as a first time visitor. Can anyone give me a reccomendation of whst to visit or what to expect from each location? We can do moderate difficulty hikes, as long as they aren't way too long. Traveling with someone with a fear of narrow ridges too, not necessarily heights. Like they were scared of the top ridge of angels landing at Zion. From what i've seen I like the views from sunrise better but not sure of what to do there.

This is my first time posting on this subreddit, so sorry if this is a very overdone question, but i'm honestly confused.

To clarify, I am a novice 15 year old 400m runmer who is just getting into T&F and love the grind. I'm asking this purely out of curiosity, I don't care what time I end up with because I love the pain and getting better, even if I don't become extrodinary.

However, that out of the way, why is the T&F community so confusing about things? Especially when it comes to categorizing realistic expectations and what dictates a "good time". With distance running, there will be people who come in and run sub 5 in the mile their freshman year and end up with 4:20 in college, while we have Yaseen Abdalla with a standard 7 minute mile and sub 25 minute 5k, eventually running sub 4 and becoming an olympian. With sprints its even more confusing, especially with long sprint events (400m). Its a common consesus that sprints are harder to improve, but by how much? Lets take a male sprinter that isn't "athletic" by any standards but stays active, and they run a realistic 12.9-13.5 100m, by their senior year of highschool ehat are they going to run? Some people think they won't break 12 while others say it's possible to break 11.5. In the 400m, there are freshman who run sub 57 and end up with only 51-53 second 400m's their senior year, a standard varsity time despite having very good starting point, and they call it a good improvement. I think we can agree that sub 60 as a freshman is very well above average for your average track athlete, yet it's treated like it's horrendous and "rolled". Then we have one of my family friends who started with a 64.4 400m their freshman year, dropped to 55 in exactely 12 months, and now runs a 52.4 end of his junior year of highschool. Yes, he was pretty fast and had horrendous endurance, but nothing way above the average.

Sorry if I pack 10 different ideas/questions into this one post, but try to help me rationalize what is genuinely realistic? Am I "fried" just because I don't run sub 60 by my freshman year of highschool? (Not like I care if I am)

This will be my first time ever in the PNW, and I'm planning to visit Olympic National Park and Mount Rainier National Park. However, we have enough time to take a day trip from Seattle to the northern part of the state, and we were debating whether to go to Artist Point or drive the North Cascades Highway. Our family of four (three adults and one older teen) can do moderate-difficulty hikes that are no more than 5-6 miles. We also love scenic drives.

Some other questions:
How much am I missing out by not going to Ruby Beach or the southern part of Olympic NP? My plan doesn't allow it unless I push for it. So far, my plan is to visit Hurricane Ridge, Lake Crescent, Sol Duc Falls, Rialto, Second Beach, and/or the Hoh Rainforest. How does the Brainbridge car ferry work as well?

Sunrise or Paradise? Both look beautiful, and we are also doing this as a day trip.

Please recommend some hikes or stops on the way to each of these, as well, if you have any!
Sorry for all the questions, and feel free to only answer the ones you have time for.