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A year and a half ago I was paying $75 a month for gig internet with spectrum. They then raised the rates to $84 a month last July. I just got the bill for this month and my rates were raised again to $99 a month, a $15 increase over my already increased rate.

The bill claims I still have $20 in promotional discounts, so it could be worse, but I was get $35 off until today. I know about the song and dance you can do with customer retention, but is it even worth trying this when Spectrum is the only provider in the area with gig internet?

I work from home and use the full gig often, so gig internet is actually semi-important. I could in theory switch to T-Mobile 5G and get 100-500 mbps for half the price, but my experience in using it through my parents house was that it was very rough and spotty.

I'm worried that if I call they'll call my bluff and just cancel service lol

I tried to click into the app to see the article and it crashed the app for me, I now can't find any article or mention of this anywhere. Was this a false push notification? A premature story?

I was skimming through Hanson's Marathon Method tonight and I caught something I didn't see the first couple of times I had read through it. I've done Hanson's 4 times now and it works really well for me, but I had always wondered how to increase mileage and that the Pfitz 70 miler plan was calling to me.

In the book he recommends for those looking to increase mileage to simply add 2 miles to their easy runs, this gets the longest week up to 68 miles. Another suggestion he had was turning the Wednesday rest day into an easy 4-8 mile run as opposed to straight rest, as sometimes people do better with a recovery run versus not doing anything. Another simple suggestion was increasing the warmup and cooldowns on the Tuesday/Thursday workouts from 1.5 miles to 2 miles respectively (adding 2 miles to the week total).

Following all of these, the longest week turns from 62 miles into 74 miles. While I will probably start adding 2 miles my easy runs to increase mileage and increasing the warmup and cooldown distance (I'm in week 7), I'm curious what other people's experience has been with doing an easy run during the rest day instead of just resting?

Skipping that rest day means there's no days during the week that you're not running and I could see that as being detrimental, but I also trust Hanson as well.

I’ve been working for some time on trying to build an app similar to FotMob for baseball, having live baseball scores for leagues across the globe. Today the server I host the backend on to make the API calls to the MLB Stats API got blocked, I get nonstop 406 errors.

Over the course of debugging I discovered in the GET requests this statement:

> The accounts, descriptions, data and presention in the referring page (the "Materials") are proprietary content of MLB Advanced Media, L.P ("MLBAM"). Only individual, non-commercial, non-bulk use of the Materials is permitted and any other use of the Materials is prohibited without prior written authorization from MLBAM. Authorized users of the Materials are prohibited from using the Materials in any commercial manner other than as expressly authorized by MLBAM.

To me this reads like unless I get express authorization from MLB, I can’t use the API for bulk use (aka an app for others to use).

I’m not a lawyer and this was a fun personal project I was doing for free, so I’m in no spot to drop money to consult an attorney. I can’t imagine if I email MLB they’ll just give me written authorization, and even if they did I can’t imagine that I’ll be able to get around this 406 errors anyways.

Is my project dead in the water?

I’m getting more quotes, but I had a plumber come out yesterday to replace our existing gas water heater since we’ve started to not be able to last 2 showers before running out of hot water.

Ideally we’d like to do a tankless conversion, but the plumber today said it would be virtually impossible given the location of the utility closet in the basement. He said they’d need to run a pvc vent out the side of the house (which makes sense to me, but I’m not sure why the existing vent wouldn’t work) and given the location it’s not really possible to do that. We have a drop ceiling and I’m pretty sure the new vent could go through that.

It felt like a big company just not wanting to bother with it, but figured maybe people here would know more if it was bullshit. Anyways, they ended up quoting $3500 for a like for like replacement and then tried to sell me on a new water softener, so I’m definitely not going with them anyways.

I’m running Grandma’s in 11 days. Last Thursday I got food poisoning. I managed to run 7 miles that day before it truly hit and felt awful (it was supposed to be 10 miles at marathon pace). I tried running Saturday after taking Friday off thinking I was getting over it and only did 3 miles and that was clearly a mistake too, my pace was 2 minutes slower than usual.

I haven’t run since then and lost about 10 lbs (likely from just having no appetite), I think I may be coming out of it today but for all I know I have another few days of this.

Realistically I know I probably didn’t lose my fitness in not running for a few days and can probably just treat it as an early taper. Regardless, I’m afraid the sickness caused me to lose everything. I was so disciplined this training block and felt on pace to break 3:15, or at least 3:20 (my PR is 3:28)

I’m sure I’m not the only person who has dealt with this, for those that have had something similar this close to the race, what happened? Can I still claw back? I’m going to try to run today, but I’m definitely not doing the 6x1 that Hanson calls for unless I truly feel perfect.

I’ve run 5 marathons now with a PB of 3:28. I can keep a 3:15 pace and feel fine lung capacity wise, but I always get dead quads around mile 20 that slows my pace to a 9:00-9:30 pace, even with proper fueling. I’m aiming for a 3:15-3:20 in June.

Back when I got back into running again few years ago I got really bad ITBS and I had to stop running. I eventually went to get a gait analysis done and was fitted with a Saucony Ride 15. Within 2 weeks I was running pain free and haven’t had issues since then. Being afraid of injuring myself again, I’ve been buying them over and over again and finally they stopped selling them in my size. I only ran in them and raced in them.

Anyways, today I went back and did a gait analysis again and was basically told my form looks great, but I outgrew the Ride 15s a long time ago, my legs got too strong, and I’ve been fighting them for a while. We ended up on Saucony Kinvara 16s and I’m really excited for them, especially if I’m not having to fight my shoes anymore. I’ve been debating racing in them like I did the Ride 15s (after all nothing new on race day, they’re already an improvement over what I previously had, and she recommended racing in them), but thought about trying a super shoe instead

I asked her what her thoughts were on super shoes and she basically said that while they’re incredible technology, they’re incredibly hard on the body and as a result a lot of people don’t run marathons again afterwards with them. This part felt a little off to me, even though the rest of her advice has always been spot on, but I absolutely understand the “incredibly hard on the body” part, and that’s what concerns me.

So my questions are:
- Just how hard on the body are they? I’m wary of hurting myself obviously, even long term
- Is it worth it to race in a super shoe for my upcoming race in June? Or should I try the Kinvara for that race and then do the super shoe for the marathon in October?
- Besides the obvious fueling solution, how much do the shoes actually impact “dead leg” late in the marathon?
- If I do end up deciding to try the super shoe, which one? I know, that’s the age old question and is personal to each person, but I’ve mainly been looking at the Saucony Endorphin Elite 2 (or 3 if I wait a month) and Brooks Hyperion Elite 4 PB. The Brooks I can get on a discount for much cheaper is mostly why I’m looking at it (like $110), but I’ve heard it’s not as good as others, like the Endorphins.

We have an adjustable split king and love it, the only issue is the gap between 2 beds gets in the way of cuddling/other activities.

I know they make gap fillers/bed bridges on Amazon, but we do Scandinavian style and have separate sheets and comforters for each of us. Unfortunately the bed bridges don’t work with our setup as we then wouldn’t be able to put the sheets on.

Any recommendations on how to fix the gap? It’s the Sleep Number adjustable base of that makes a difference