My Books so far this year

1. Wisdom: Form Philosophy to Neuroscience.–Still listening…but its amazing how moral choices are brain chemistry driven and there is a great chapter and references through out about socrates and ghandi…recommended
2. Brain Rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home and school--read by the author with a website to back it up also awesome…great preso recommendations and how to properly present concepts and a killer powerpoint killer…
3. Sway: the irresistible pull of irrational behavior–interesting how the brain is drawn to believe crap like first impressions kinda of the opposite of blink…or a solid endorsement of going beyond thin slicing
4. The Daily Show with jon stewart–just plain old hilarious
5. The power of less: The fine art of limiting yourself to the essentials–like a more Tao Te Ching of GTD programs…very interesting good picked up a couple tidbits MITs, dumping, purging, and limits
6. C Street: The fundamentalist threat to american democracy– creepy with all the creepiness of reality…like these politicians are on fox all the time and are still actively operating….0001% of the real story is covered on cnn…
7. Me of little faith...I love lewis black and he’s actually an interesting person
8. The invisible gorilla– its full of those…holy sht i had no idea…I’ll never text again…notable–inattentional blindness..amazing stuff…people think that they remember more than they do…the brain fills in a whole bunch of crap to create our reality…read this or listen…it s an easy listen trust me — illusion of attention..
9. Nonzero: the logic of human destiny– its amazing we have no flying friggin cars….but that would be a zero sum game
10. How pleasure works: the new science of why we like what we like-– brain chemistry again is a fascinating beast and the brain itself is the most amazing thing i have ever read about…the more i read the more amazed at how stupid i actually am and how little control over stuff we have…
11. Switch: how to change things when change is hard– the destination postcards, tweak the environment, shape the path…all really great ways to work change into the room….sounds like the art of war… just modern style…
12. The next 100 years: a forecast for the 21st century– terrifyingly interesting
13. The shadow effect: illuminating the hidden power of your true self-- a dose of reality…
14. Too big to fail– greedy bastards, cool to see the behind the scenes of all the crap from the tv and all the narcissistic morons
15. The war within: a secret white house history 2006-2008–this is a confiming book about the actual inner workings of how sht went down and how divisive things were in the white house…and how things actually work in the defense dept.
16. 13 Things that dont make sense: the most baffling scientific mysteries of our time
17. How we decide
18. The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
19. Theories, predictions and diagnosis
20. Born to run: A hidden tribe, superathletes and the greatest race the has never seen
21. The ricky gervais guide to natural history
22. The ricky gervais guide to the arts
23. The hidden brain: how our uncommon minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives.
24. What the dog saw: and other adventures
25. Superfreakonomics

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180 of 243 (2:19 was finish time)

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What a year of prep means

[Update] VO2 I just learned what that was and how it relates to my performance…a little late and probably obvious but…

You can’t run, or at least I can’t, a marathon at your VO2 Max…mine is as stated below…aah now it all makes sense. More on the VO2 calculation…

In my case 8:33 to 9:00 miles is in that MAx range and my ideal is btw 126-144bpm for the record I have been averaging

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As i have learned about myself…I can do almost anything I put my mind to…however there are smarter ways to approach shit…

My heart rate from the chicago marathon…note the first hour my HR was in the red zone over 160bpm for more than an hour…never never again will i ever force myself to burn up 70 mins of max heart rate running especially when the average temps are rising toward 82 degrees in the next 2 hours…I suffered terrible cramping and it turns out that my physiology had not trained over the last 9 mos this way so FAIL…did i finish a marathon YES did i enjoy it like i enjoyed my last 20 miler in september shit no…lesson…run as you train…i did not train this way nor will i succeed running this way…ever. So never again, live and learn.

the first 9-10 miles run overclocked my heart which effectively ruined the rest of the marathon….heart rate after heart rate recorded over the last year tells the story…next time i will listen to my heart rate very carefully and not force myself and have a good run.

How not to manage my heart rate...overclocked my heart rate in the first hour blew my whole marathon

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By contrast the run below was ‘fun’ and i felt good after and during and still worked hard and temps at the end of the run were closer to the temps in the middle of the marathon.

This is my heart rate over 3.5 hours during my last long run 20

Tempo run thru valley forge park in the rain barefoot shoes.

This is a tempo run thru valley forge park avg hr 146bpm

8:41 min/mi for almost 8 miles below note the heart rate balance

This is a tempo run 7.28mile run at tempo speeds and i felt great at the end note the heart rates....effin idiot i am

This is a 14 miler a great run with hills and no heavy heart rate burn up front…

14 miler normal heart rate and plenty of elevation.