Early Retirement Extreme Forums

1) Childhood - school (formal or informal) and play.
2) Workaday - the stereotypical adult life, whether it's in the developed or developing worlds. What "work" looks like is a little different for each person.
3) First world retirement
a) Gentleman farmer - oftentimes generously called ...

Weekly Mileage : +18mi run (579mi) / +0mi bike (1250mi)
Long Run: 10mi. and it was slooooow..

Run Report (no Hill Sprints here, I promise):

I follow a quick rule and two corollaries: listen to the unit of the first attribute somebody tells you about their home: whether it's (neighborhood/square ...

Weekly Mileage : +31mi run (561mi ytd) / +25mi bike (1250mi ytd)
Long Run : 11 mi [shortish but with 5 mi of Fartlek, 90s on/off @7:00 pace]

I have wanted to regularly try out different training styles (and plans) and would like each year to go deep with a new book or training plan. I see it as a ...

Weekly Mileage : 31mi (run) / 23mi (bike) (YTD: 531 run / 1225 bike)
Long Run :12mi

I apologize as I am running a little behind here, not exactly the most promising trait given my goal is to run a marathon, fast.

(For anyone just joining, each year I try to take advantage of ERE lifestyle ...

There was a prominent lack of mention of @jacob's promoted stirfrying amongst what I shared of East Coast United States colonial food cultures above, but I imagine stir-frying as staple technique might have a beachhead--and would be interested if anyone ever comes across a similar cultural ...

I doubt there's any kind of conspiracy behind it. More likely, modern cooking evolved around what kind of stoves people had access to/generally used. Stir fry works over open fire, so likely lower latitudes.

sounds legit.. or maybe.... what county of England your ancestor/indentured ancestor's ...

There's always this event: http://ephemerisle.org/index.php/Ephemerisle


"Dressing up"? take a look at those photos: I see more houses than boats!

ok, but to be mildly useful, I do have an associate who goes regularly (I have associates in low places) and if you buy his stories, nevermind the ...

@Scott 2 : A lot of sympathy for the conclusions of your podiatrist follow-up. Transitioning from running to rowing/elliptical actually seems to have a number of advantages and particular appeals I'm just awakening to but I appreciate that forced choices are hardly cheery times. I find myself hoping ...

2024
Theme: Devotion


With luck and well-wishing, and for any rare cloudy days of 2024:


To be sure, if one were as secure in one's work as one should be, that would not disconcert one, even in conjunction with a cold: one would simply see and make things out of this state of mind... But ...

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Work towards this look (with a bit of modernization of the blouson) and you'll get all the cheap dates you could possibly want. :lol:



The most conspicuous feature of European poetry is its pre ...

thank you @shaz, as your list includes what I know I should be doing but conveniently overlook.

I was hoping to get away with using hill sprints exclusively for strength training since they are fun but I have no excuse not to also start proper strength-training exercises this year. fine. I might ...

@mF much thanks - although now I'm already starting to think maybe what I really want to do is a 50km...

@shaz brings up a point and here is a Public Service Announcement that I would not recommend biking to endurance events, at least if you care primarily about your time. You will run faster than ...

Race Report:

Weekly Mileage: 32mi
Long Run: 26.2mi

I should say this is a small regional race with the order of hundreds of participants. That matters. You can take I-95 or the Appalachian Trail from a little north of Manhattan to Portland, Maine, where on one you'll get to recognize the fellow ...

okay okay, I'll get to it! I was holding off so as not to interrupt the discussion (as sometimes I get distracted) of foot health which I am keenly following, right now mostly complaint-free so from a contingency planning and monitoring stance, but it seems so important for all runners here and I ...

Weekly Mileage: 48mi
Long Run: 18mi

Quick last update: Happy to be back on track, making up for my two week lapse. The day after my long 23mi run last week I immediately logged 2.4 hrs on the bike making deliveries which felt reassuring at the time as a bit of a corrective or fallback to my missed ...

I'm predominantly an achiever / explorer. I'm not looking to beat anyone. I don't much care if someone else sees my experience or a stranger cheers for me.


I agree with this for myself. I'm not looking to beat anyone (except my brother) and would prefer not being cheered for as well. Especially ...

Weekly Mileage: 32mi (!) (Scheduled: 52mi)
Long Run: 23mi

I guess the thing I like about logging these sorts of things in public is that amidst all that sounds well and good and achievable in theory, once you start, you can't hide the trainwrecks. What was last week's patient tolerance of ...

Jacob: I like the bow wave analogy, although if I sense through it I have to acknowledge the bit of queasiness I get at the crest and the insistent preference I have for climbing, not planing afterward. at any rate think I have noticed that transition you describe, most recently in squats where what ...

and you can tell an emacs user by the carpal tunnel braces they wear just to brush their teeth.

Esc+F, meta ctrl shift + TW

First, congrats to Scott on achieving a long run goal. A lot of up and down in that and I somehow never can run quite as fast on that sort of gravelly stuff.

My long runs meanwhile have been coming in a little short. But this coming week will be my max mileage week and am finalizing my thinking on ...