"Are there suspicions they are already in use? Is there value in them for a marathon distance? Considering their documented value in VO2max for cycling, might they apply here?"

My mother is also an attorney. In one criminal trial, she was among the first 12 seated. D asked the classic question about the burden of proof, "If you had to return a verdict right now, without the P having put on any evidence, what would your verdict have to be?" Other juror in good faith hazards the guess, "Not…

Hey, I've been to law school.

Or just: "I've been involved in protests against police officers, and I don't think I would be able to weigh their testimony fairly"; "I have several good friends who are police officers, and I don't think I would be able to weigh their testimony fairly/I would just always assume that the cop was telling the truth";…

That was one hell of a præteritio.

Good instincts, to be sure - but there was no podium at Olympia. Winners only, none of this silver and bronze bullshit. Yeah, the Panathenaia offered money for second place - but that doesn't work with the 776 BCE reference.

Wow. Damn. But maybe no one would waste time on email, or send catty emails about internal company business, because everyone would see it or the reply?

I appreciate the additional context; thanks. It actually doesn't sound quite as bad, now that you spell it out, as I've realized - if the system worked well, the notion that I would not check email every 20min and get distracted, but would just have someone handing me the things I needed to see, sounds sort of…

How the eff can you share one email address among six attorneys, regardless of what type of address that is?

I am a lawyer. I, sadly, find this story completely credible, and not even particularly surprising.

Friendly edit: perhaps you mean cursèd, not curs'ed? (Or perhaps not; just want to make sure you're aware of the grave accent option.)

I agree completely. (Thanks for not implying that I'm a lesser runner because I consistently have to poop within 10 minutes of starting to run. Believe me, it'd be easier if things got taken care of before heading out.)

Uh, yes? Yes I do. But I ski during winter. Because Alaska.

The need to poop while running - or lack thereof - has been discussed pretty much ad infinitum on LetsRun. Summary: both camps think their biological baseline is completely normal and acceptable, and the other side is weird as hell.

I happen to fall in the "nearly always have to poop while running" camp (and yes, I've…

10/10. (no, really.) I, literally, laughed out loud at that.

Kip Litton.

Man, you guys worked harder on this data analysis than those 4-hour marathoners did in training.

Are We Sure It Wasn't Written By The Germans?

I posited "Alaska: Outside." I mean, the fact that we call it Outside is pretty telling.
But if you had to choose just one state, yeah, it's unquestionably Texas. Fuck Texas.

Alaska: Outside. (Yes, we call it "Outside," as well as "the Lower 48." That should tell you something right there. But Hawaii gets a pass.)