Matthew Bull Phillips

Goodwood Motor Circuit Marathon Winner

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@pigeon_island @Ascot Into the light
Gilded prize
Rahiebb
Organise

#PigeonSwoop4

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@pigeon_island @Ascot More Champagne
Minnie Hauk
La Botte
Radiant Beauty

#PigeonSwoop4

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@pigeon_island @Ascot Opera Baloo
Ruler's Pride
Night Raider
Reaching High

#AscotSwoop4

[Jess Samy @FrankelWatch13]

I wrote about what defines Frankel’s Gr1 winners.

I also made a case as to why I believe he will carry the legacy of Northern Dancer going forward.

https://t.co/GIcOM4r0Mm

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@FrankelWatch13 Which Frankel wins The Derby......ITEM

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@CalBrownn @RacingTV @Ladbrokes @punchestownrace Still Galopin for me

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@Ryan_Jackson15 @RacingTV @Ladbrokes @punchestownrace And he races often, which is great to see!

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@bhc3 This is within a 130 mile week

Run more!

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

First recovery footage of the Artemis II crew has just been released

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@menlifelegacy Perenium orgasm

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

1969. NASA spent $355 million to put two men on the moon. The flag cost $5.50. And three months before launch, nobody at NASA had even thought to bring one.

Congress started asking why the biggest space mission ever wouldn’t include an American flag. NASA scrambled. They handed the job to an engineer named Jack Kinzler, a guy everyone at the space center called “Mr. Fix It.” His problem was strange: there’s no air on the moon. No air means no wind. A normal flag would just hang there like a wet towel on a stick. So Kinzler thought back to watching his mom hang curtains as a kid. He designed a metal rod that slid through the top of the flag like a curtain rod, holding the fabric stiff so it would look like it was waving. The whole flagpole was aluminum tubing, weighed under 10 pounds, cost $75 to build.

The flag rode to the moon strapped to the ladder of the landing spacecraft, directly in the blast path of engines that hit 2,000°F on the way down. Engineers had to wrap it in a metal sleeve with insulating blankets just to keep it from burning up before anyone could touch it.

Then Armstrong and Aldrin tried to actually plant the thing. They could barely get the pole into the ground. Dirt on Earth has smooth, rounded grains because millions of years of wind and water have worn down the edges. The moon has no weather. Never has. So lunar dirt is made of tiny jagged shards that lock together like Velcro. The pole went in a few inches, nowhere near deep enough. Buzz Aldrin later told NASA engineers he spent the whole time terrified the flag would fall over on live television while hundreds of millions of people watched from their living rooms. It stayed up.

It stood for 21 hours and 36 minutes. When Armstrong and Aldrin fired the engine to leave the surface, the rocket exhaust hit the flag, planted just 27 feet away, and blew it over. Aldrin watched it go down through the window. Every Apollo crew after that put their flag farther from the spacecraft.

Six American flags were planted across six moon landings between 1969 and 1972. The last one, on Apollo 17, had actually ridden to the moon and back on Apollo 11 years earlier, then hung on the wall of Mission Control before going back to the lunar surface for good. In 2012, NASA pointed a spacecraft camera at the old landing sites. The lead scientist on the camera team confirmed that five of the six flags are still standing. Apollo 11’s is the only one down, lying in the dirt right where Aldrin watched it fall.

Every one of them has almost certainly been bleached solid white. Fifty-seven years of raw ultraviolet light, with zero atmosphere to filter any of it, strips the color out of nylon. The Stars and Stripes on the moon are now, most likely, just blank white rectangles on sticks.

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@joesy642 @FinPowrie @kevinblake2011 Said the same thing about black caviar.

Want to race KY, UK horses should then go over there and claim more prize money for placing than actually winning a race in Britain

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you’ve never cried after giving everything you had to something that mattered, you’ve probably never given everything you had to something that mattered.

https://t.co/Cx7WZFEEvQ

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

As a parent or coach, the hardest moments come when you clearly see someone’s potential, yet they can't. You can’t force motivation—but you can plant seeds.

Here's what to do about it:

https://t.co/SUYU5KsDwf

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

When I was in HS I used to eat a full dinner—steak, chocolate milk, you name it—and then head right out the door for 9 miles at 6min pace

It sucked for a week, then your body adapted & it was normal

The lesson: We can make the overwhelming feel routine

https://t.co/Lt9pPjjxun

[Ben Mwine 🇺🇬 π @benmwine]

If someone ever asks you what it means to have levels, show them this video....

[Louisa N. @louisanicola_]

The fastest way to upgrade your fitness engine backed by science

Massive 2024 meta-analysis just dropped on muscle mitochondria and capillaries. Here is what 5973 participants revealed

1. All training works
Endurance, HIIT, and sprint intervals all increased mitochondrial content ~23 to 27 percent

2. Intensity wins on efficiency
Sprint intervals were ~2.3x more efficient than HIIT and ~3.9x more than endurance per hour

3. Frequency matters more than style
6 > 4 > 2 sessions per week = bigger gains in mitochondria and VO2max

4. Capillaries grow fast but early
Most capillary gains happen in the first 4 weeks, mainly in untrained people

5. Your starting point is everything
Lower fitness = bigger improvements across mitochondria, VO2max, and capillaries

6. Age, sex, and disease do not limit adaptation
Your body can adapt at any stage of life

7. VO2max improves similarly across methods
But HIIT trends higher, sprint intervals give the most return per time

Consistency and effort beat the type of workout. Start where you are and train hard. Your biology will respond

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan goes silent as guest dives deep on who Zelenskyy really is.

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@pigeon_island Meetmebythesea replace Sixmilebridge please #CheltenhamSwoop4

[Matthew Bull Phillips @MarathoningBull]

@pigeon_island @CheltenhamRaces @itvracing @RacingTV Sixmilebridge
Kabral Du Mathan
C'Est Different
Waterford Whispers
#CHELTENHAMSWOOP4