I wouldn't get too hung up on actual speed or numbers, but try to just keep it slow.
I hear what you are saying. Running gait is more sort of a lean-forward-and-push-off-with-toes type thing than a smooth easy walk. You can do that with short strides and medium-cadence and you won't go very fast.
Perhaps just transition into a run and then make a conscious effort to slow down, or go the other way where you walk faster and faster until your instinct is to change to a running gait and try to keep that pace.
The important thing is to try not run too fast "by accident".
Well I said "at least for me" 10 words in, and "give it a go" etc so I am not suggesting this is universal.
Sorry it doesn't work for you. 4 to 6 times a week is a lot though, max I do is 3 times a week, typically 2.
I should probably add that I am not a natural runner's build. I am pretty chunky, about 1.8m and about 100kg so I am not some waif and carrying probably 15kg more than I should be, and a typical run is often running to work instead of taking public transport in London so it is very much a "functional" thing.
I don't "enjoy" it, but I do get a clear mind and a bit of a kick out of it once the run is over.
Running is quite meditative when you get in to it (at least for me when outside - indoor running on treadmills is soul destroying though I agree). You don't have to go fast or far, but after 10-15-20 mins I find my mind gets into a fairly calm state, even if my legs and lungs are burning.
We - as a species - are engineered and built to run. I think there is a lot to be said for it.
If anyone is reading this and considering giving it a go, please do. You don't need any specific fancy equipment (just some generic trainers/sneakers will do - running does not damage your knees, quite the opposite in fact). I love travelling for work and packing my running gear and exploring the city I am visiting while running - beats sitting in a hotel room watching netflix on my own.
My biggest advice is that when you first start running outside you will feel like you are going slow even if you are not. If you have a smartphone get an app that will help you track your running pace (Strava is popular but I use runkeeper as I don't like the gamification & social parts of strava) and don't try to go faster than 6 mins/km for the first few runs. When I first started running outside (after doing a lot of gym-based treadmill running and before smartphones were really a thing) I had no frame of reference for how I was moving through the space apart from driving so it felt so terribly terribly slow when in reality I was pushing very hard. There are no prizes here and you are not racing anyone - run at a pace that feels sustainable and let your mind go.
Opus 4.5 was the high point for me. It was like a mind-reader, it just got it and did pretty much exactly what I wanted.
Since then, I've been less impressed and I agree it feels a bit downhill. At work we are "stuck" on Opus 4.6 which is okay but I feel like that was when the deviant opinionated behaviour started to creep in.
It's a tool, I don't want my hammer to refuse to hammer a screw if I decide that is what I want to do today. I know it's wrong, but I'm the fucking boss.
The term "log" as a list of entries in some kind of journal predates the internet in en-GB by several hundred years, having strong nautical origins in the ship's log. It is the origin of "login" too (entering entries into the log), or do you assert that it should be "lougin" too?
At one end we're creating artificial life, the other we are creating artificial intelligence.
We're coming at everything we as the human race have known for millennia from both ends, simultaneously. We're recreating that, from scratch.
That is absolutely fucking wild.
Ironically this "holy" grail will end up being the thing that finally puts religious creation myths in their place (i.e. as bullshit) since we will be able to answer with 100% certainty that we are not alone or unique in the universe since we recreated life in the fucking petri dish so why not across the billions and trillions of other planets out there?
+1 my immediate thoughts about the date parts was this sounds a lot like localisation things that are totally normal and seen everywhere.
But there are some wrinkles - why only two timezones and not others? E.g. US-vs-rest-of-word month-vs-day etc.
Could just be some bad tree-shaking or simply a left over bug/merge issue if I am being generous.
If I was going to put secret stenography things in my models I'd just do it in the model response rather than a relatively low bandwidth date stamp in the SI.
This is not so much about being overweight (although I admit I am) it is about the constant overriding urge to eat eat eat eat eat all day every day. The constant feeling of wanting to eat, when I am going to eat next, what can I eat, what and where am I going to eat for my next meal, man oh man it would be nice to eat something with that next mouthful of coffee, I can go eat something as soon as this meeting is over, then I can eat again after that, then I can eat eat eat eat eat, then it's lunch, what am I going to eat for lunch? after lunch I have a meeting then i'll eat some more before another coffee when I can get some more to eat. Eat eat eat eat. Did anyone say snack? Eat. More. Eat eat eat eat eat.
It's totally overwhelming and often hard to concentrate with this constant overriding urge to think about eating all the time. It's like gravity, inescapably pulling me in.
People say "Oh I forgot to have lunch!" and it simply does not compute for me. How can someone forget?! Having lunch is my overriding constant nagging thought since having that last mouthful of breakfast. It only stops when I get to start thinking about eating dinner as soon as I have stopped eating lunch. Repeat. Every moment of every day. Eat. Eat. Eat.
It's a like a stuck record or whatever. Over and over. I want to turn it off.
I'd get it if I was solely existing on a diet of junk food that is designed to do this, but I am not. Since I've been tracking every last gramme of food I've been eating on and off for well over a decade I can tell you that it is very much "healthy" and low in processed and/or junk foods. I just never feel full and want to eat more.
> Maybe try to figure out why you’re feeling hungry. Is it because you’re running a 1000 kcal deficit?
For me I always feel hungry. Always ready to eat more. Always.
It doesn't seem to matter what I eat or how much, I have no "off switch" apart from maybe being asleep. I sit at big family meals like Christmas or thanks giving and people around me are all "man I am going to pop if I have another bite" and yet I am still reaching for more while simultaneously thinking about what is for dessert. Once I start eating for the day, that's it game over I am going to be thinking about when I can eat next the entire waking time. I have done calorie counting for years (with deficits of usually around 400-800, tracking macros etc making sure I get enough protein) and am fairly active (running 20-25km a week, strength sessions 1-2 times a week) but even when I am not counting calories or especially active that doesn't stop me wanting to eat the whole damn time.
Dieting or not, exercising or not, it makes no difference I am always ready and willing to eat more. I am in a constant mental state of food binge.
I usually stop eating when the food physically runs out on my plate, so portion control when making meals etc needs to be airtight. I work at a BigCo where there is unlimited free food at every turn, so just going to get a coffee is a nightmare as you can imagine as I am surrounded by things to eat. Like e.g. on a bad day I might end up having 6 or 7 bananas a day just to avoid picking up a chocolate bar or donut instead. It's nuts (..and yes there are nuts too and also too easy to just grab a handful...)
I think of it like an alcoholic. But an alcoholic can "go sober" and just cut it out and not get that first taste that leads to the spiralling binge. I've got to eat to stay alive though so every day I "fall off the wagon"
I am seriously considering the pill form now that is a thing. The refrigerated injections just seemed like they were incompatible with a normal busy life with travel etc
I said it elsewhere but I'll say it here - we need one of the top 10 richest people in the world - the Bezos, the Musks etc - to suddenly get very interested at a personal level about cancer treatment.
I think realistically we're waiting for someone in the top 10-20 richest people in the world to get cancer (or a close relative etc) who will then throw billions at research to try and fix the problem.
Now the question is is it riskier to have basically a stranger with strong arms in my house near my kids, or a robot with strong arms in my house near my kids?
I feel like a robot has the technical capacity to see behind it and stop (I have many times for example been using the vacuum and moving my arm forwards and backwards and whacked a kid in the face with my elbow on the backswing because they've walked up behind me and I've not known, but a robot with literal eyes and radar in the back of its head would spot that situation and freeze). Similar to self-driving cars: they have lots more eyes than a human has, and can be looking everywhere at once etc.
But do we trust the programming? Do we trust the human cleaning my toilet's "programming" (thoughts, emotions, motives etc)?
I hear what you are saying. Running gait is more sort of a lean-forward-and-push-off-with-toes type thing than a smooth easy walk. You can do that with short strides and medium-cadence and you won't go very fast.
Perhaps just transition into a run and then make a conscious effort to slow down, or go the other way where you walk faster and faster until your instinct is to change to a running gait and try to keep that pace.
The important thing is to try not run too fast "by accident".
Good luck