I agree. There are tons of interesting ways to make coffee, not all of which require investing hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in fancy espresso machines: i.e. french press vs. aeropress vs. traditional drip filter vs. gold cone, etc...
And if you hadn't taken that quote out of context, you would have seen that I was recommending between 60-70 ounces of water from 1-2 hours before the race until race finish, which won't put you at risk for hyponatremia and is, in fact, in line with what the American College of Sports Medicine recommends.
Dehydration absolutely can kill you during a race. Ask most (if not all) race medics and/or first-aid volunteers and they'll tell you dehydration is by far the bigger issue at marathons.
You took that quote out of context. If you're an elite marathoner trying to run sub-3:00 pace, then I stand by my comment to get as much water as your stomach can handle. Hydration is the limiting factor.
The key on race day is to get as much water as your stomach can handle -- one coach (Benji Durden) recommends about a quart of water 1-2 hours before the race, and then almost a half bottle every 6 miles or so. That's a lot of water when you're trying to run 5:30/mile pace!
I'm scraping together every bit of money towards my startup... but not skimping on food at all. Perhaps that's because it's a food startup and I'd feel hypocritical eating ramen everyday! But, really, it's more because I think there are better things to skimp on than food.. i.e. the fuel that makes us who we are and sustains us everyday.
Besides I've got 3 years of data to show that it's possible to eat cheaply and still get great food.. you just have to do a few things:
1. buy in volume
2. cook for yourself/others, don't eat out
3. cut back on meat
4. waste as little as possible!
Agreed - foodspotting does food visuals well. We're less about dish discovery, though, and more about food shopping. The problem we're trying to solve is picking through the 100 choices in the cereal aisle, where having pictures of the boxes (which we DO have, btw) isn't as important as how popular, healthy, tasty, or sustainable those items are.
Do you mainly eat out or eat in?
It's perfectly healthy. as a sidenote: you can mimic those effects through exercise (and a smaller window of caloric restriction). I've had some great mid-distance runs on no calories for the prior 6-8 hours (they felt great.. but I couldn't have gone much further given the low glycogen).
they wouldn't be good metrics for comparing apples and oranges. you're right. what other proxies are there for how serious/committed the founders are and/or how well thought out the business plan? or do you just take all 'review my startup' links with a grain of salt?
there's a great soundbite in that video from Reid Hoffman: "launch so early you're embarrassed by your product." the context is important (i.e. get customer feedback before you spend too much time building stuff that nobody will use).
Yup, it might be helpful to see metrics along with every "review my startup" post. not # customers/users, since obviously the startups that post will have low numbers; but maybe things like manhours spent coding, number of people involved, time since ideation, etc.
True. as someone who's been working on something for 6 months, and who finally feels almost ready to post something here, I'd say: take the startups which were obviously thrown up in the last few weeks with a grain of salt.. but don't lump the ones which have clearly had some thought (and serious manhours) put into them into the same bundle.
there are a couple startups in this space (GrubWith.Us, gogrubly.com, maybe others?). what differentiates housefed? is it the international angle? the kind of foodspotting-esque type focus on user-generated photos?
any plans for adding descriptive content so that the comments aren't just "is that [fill in the blank]?
Btw, I'd love to see a lot more positive user feedback before I sign up. I'd say get some good traction from friends/beta testers before spreading it too widely. Oh and I agree with others: lose the food porn reference.
Good luck!