Stephanos

Entrepreneur. Writer. Triathlete. Ultra marathoner. Building a network of strong voices and leaders in their own spaces one conversation at a time.

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You can only "take down" the system when you become the very components that make that system function.

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@UltraRunner26 Building up volume. Getting ready for Prairie in 3 months. Hoping to be doing 50 miles/week 3 weeks prior to the race. Did do my fastest 8 mile spit this week, so im getting super excited. Plus im 30lb lighter now than at the beginning of the year. Helps a lot for recovery.

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Some people have the privilege to live in denial their entire lives. Majority of those people are either wealthy, pretty or a combination of both. Nothing will happen to her if what she says isnt true. She can afford to live in her own bundle. Problem is the women that end up eating this narrative up arent quite as blessed as she is.

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@DylanSpina61 Saw these runs on strava and they looked like a glitch.

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@GiaMMacool @briandecoded Women claiming to know what a man is. But dont you dare say what a woman is...

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Attention is an interesting metric. Im not bothered with attention as much as im bothered with people lying to their partners about things they know they shouldn't do. Who cares if you like social media, like looking good,... the moment the lying, omitting, changing behaviour, diverting resources... all bad.

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Being a lot outside and using my body for all sorts of things, one that everyone seems to overlook is handling stress. This can be a myriad of metrics, ranging from heart rate, lack of sleep, dehydration, bad breathing technique, and so on. Hard to quantify how much this matters for endurance sports.

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Currently working on those metrics and agree with this. Granted I have some underlying conditions that added to the challange, but the more I train and add speed work to the equation, the more I realize how running technique has a lot to do with it. Not just running more. I think the entire idea of running more is just so your body can handle the training load. Doing speed work takes far longer to recover and convert to retainable muscle memory. I think every 90 days your body just poof... and you realize you improved some.
Rinse and repeat.

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I think the direction dating is headed is casually date till your 30s, (this is more obvious for women) then 50/50 when they decide to start a family. Either this dynamic will become the norm, or marrying will become an obsolete concept in more liberal cities. That way the men get a woman that is able to pull their weight in a relationship as well as even being able to afford being in said relationship. There will be a lot of single people in the future and both sides of the isle will be confused why they can't make things work. My best answer is

Too much baggage, less to offer, high expectation, wrapped in a bad econony. No one to lead, no one to submit and no money to foot the bill. AI is here, but the next generation of dating will be algorithms competing to keep you sedated from interacting with real people.

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The women that want to compete with men are silly. Sure. A little competitive spirit can be fun. But doing checks and balances, specially during courting phase, is just draining to a man. It isnt our intention to avoid women that dont understand the concept that men want peace. If they dont know what this said peace is, best to politely excuse yourself and let them be in their journey.

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@mikeddonatelli That was me in a nutshell. After losing 140+ lb, I didnt care much that I had gained 30 - 40lb back. Was looking great and could do most things. Problem is all the gains I was leaving on the table by not committing to get rid of it all.

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While i understand the paradox they are stuck in, this usually happens when either you've been in a competitive workforce for many years, adopting more and more masculine traits, or you got stuck casual dating for so long, you always "dated" people that didnt want them, just their short term presence. Way before they need to deal with them.
These women can be nice, soft and fun to interact with. The caveat is you need to have such a strong masculine energy, often times seen as abrasive, that it does feel like they are hiding some kind of behaviour.

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There needs to be a time allowance to get serious about getting back to a healthy routine, but there also must be a reason this issue started. Pregnancy, death in the family, injuries... they all take time. That said, marriage is two people working together to solve life problems. If your spouse refuses to get bsck to a status quo, thats a no thank you for me. No one will be dragging me down.

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@RonaldDPotts1 LFG 💪👌

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@HandyGingerGal Aren't all people like this 🤔

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@HandyGingerGal Beautiful ☺️

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@jchains You guys looking great out there. Hope yhe fam is doing great. Miss you two 🫂

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@Jungle__Jay Slow and steady will keep you honest and consistently showing up for yourself

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@RonaldDPotts1 Consistent work Ronald. 🫡

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@schober222 Built mine during Covid. LA just wasn't the place to go to the gym. Felt like trying to check in to jail.