Formerly @bowermantc and @StanfordXCTF
Boulder, CO
Joined July 2012
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I'll be on the NCAA XC broadcast again this year. Tune it Saturday, 10am ET on ESPNU!
Hit me with your hottest and/or best takes and if they are good enough to steal I'll shout you out on air.
The bumblebee and the physics of flying quote but for Woody always having the fastest last lap.
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One justification for widespread gun ownership is that it protects citizens from the tyranny of the state. I think in the modern US, causation clearly runs in the opposite direction. Widespread gun violence creates conditions of danger that are used to justify police killings.
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Very proud of Sara and all the long hours of #science she’s put in to get here! I’ve learned a lot about academia (among other things) in the years we’ve been together, and let me tell you folks: this is a huge accomplishment!
Big news! I’m excited to share that this fall 2022 I will be an assistant professor in the Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Department @CUBoulderATOC at @CUBoulder!!
✨🌊🌦❄️✨
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Normally I just spam my political takes into the group chat, but this from @ezraklein is so correct, that I feel the need to abuse this platform and tell you all.
nytimes.com/2022/02/18/podca…
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Don’t just look for answers in the teams or organizations that win.
Also don’t just look for answers in the teams that overachieve.
Sample the whole set of teams and organizations employing certain practices to avoid selecting on the dependent variable.
Don't just look for answers in the teams or organizations that win.
Look for those who do way more with less.
Overwhelming talent & resources can often hide flaws in a team/organization. I'm looking at the people who find a way to constantly be in the hunt with less. Copy them
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Maybe the best I ever felt in a race.
In advance of next weekend’s @USATF Cross Country Championships at Mission Bay in San Diego:
@CDerrickRun on his way to winning his 3rd consecutive USA harrier title at the 2015 @USATF Cross Country Championships in Boulder.
#USATFXC #USAXC #CrossCountry
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As an example of how a course/particular race day can be measured accurately and still be bonkers fast, I present to you the Valencia Half Marathon.
Are people actually mad one way or the other about the FSU course distance? Given the density of fast times it’s either very fast or maybe a touch short. Why does it matter either way?
I don’t pretend to know how long the Tallahassee course is, but iirc there is significant fudge factor built into the rules for course length in college XC. When we hosted regionals my freshman year we made the course as short as possible, which I believe was 6 miles.
Cite your sources: TheLapCount.com
Also, XC times don’t matter so it’s not worth stressing over the fact that 90% of courses are short.
The paradox of social media is that in order to not curate what you share you’d have to really, really not care what people think about you. But if you genuinely didn’t care what people thought about you, why would you post on social media at all?
I’m very into this chart because I love to see good news about vaccines and examples of Simpson’s Paradox in the wild.
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Truly crazy making how often environmental review laws are used to hold up/kill projects that would reduce carbon emissions.
Huge delays for NYC congestion pricing: Kathy Hochul is wavering (“the pace and timing is something she will need to evaluate further”), and the MTA is about to announce that environmental review will take 16 months. Sam Schwartz thinks Albany is stalling nytimes.com/2021/08/16/nyreg…
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Had a fun chat on the Running Effect podcast where I pontificated on some of my favorite subjects, like @kenjilopezalt’s The Food Lab, Tony Judt’s Post-War, and, also, running.
open.spotify.com/episode/67I…
If you’re tired of what’s fun about athletics (athletes doing cool stuff) and want to think about what’s dumb (who gets paid for the cool stuff) - then boy do I have a post you!
chrisderrick.substack.com/p/…
Been thinking about the first steeple workout I saw @courtfrerichs8 do this spring. She was pretty disappointed by it and seemed to be comparing herself to her AR form.
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*Builds a nuclear bomb shelter 200ft below ground*
*covers mouth with pillow*
*whispers, in quietest possible voice*
the jump off would have been sick tho
I very much hope Luis is successful in his appeal and that someday our system of immigration enforcement can move beyond “well if we just try to make things really, really shitty, maybe people won’t want to come here?”
Former @NAUTrackFieldXC
star Luis Grijalva (a DACA recipient born in Guatemala) will head to the US Citizenship & Immigration Services office in Phoenix to make one last effort in gaining an advance parole that would let him go to the Tokyo Olympics & return to the US after.
.@scubasanchez and I went through all our books. I managed to convince her we don’t need two copies of Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego, considering neither of us reads Spanish. However, my argument that one of her three books on differential equations may be redundant fell flat.
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