Friday Thoughts 55
Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Thoughts, enjoy!
Why Sleep Tracking Isn’t Useful - Yet by Alex Hutchinson
This is a nice quick read about the sleep data many of us are tracking and analyzing. How useful is it? How good is it? Recently, I upgraded my watch. With the new tech that’s been developed since 2018 (when I last got a new watch), it’s nuts how much more information there is to decode, and it does seem to be more accurate that its older counterpart.
Hutchinson questions what we will do with all this data, i.e., if you got less REM than normal last night, how are you going to get more tonight? Are you going to train differently? Take a rest day? Get an extra hour of sleep? For me, I don’t worry too much about the small things like that, but rather, look back at overall trends and mostly look at the hours I’m logging Zzzz’s.
Read the article HERE
Mount Washington:
Big brand does a doc about our local mountains; I’m in. This Arc’teryx doc about a rescue that happened 30 or so year ago, and about the SAR (search and rescue) community of the Whites. It was enjoyable and had a twist that I was not expecting. If you like learning about SAR stuff like I do, make sure to check out the book Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains by Sandy Scott.
Top of Europe:
Killian winds his way through the crowds at the top of Europe, Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. This was reminiscent of the summit of Mount Washington in the middle of in the summer. There’s something about one of the best runners in the world suffering through big crowds like the rest of us.
If You’re Not Rowing to Wash Your Clothes:
You might be lazy, get to work! In all seriousness, I always thought it would be cool to have a gym set up so that AirBikes needed to be pedaled to generate power for the lights.
Roate!
Get your t-spine mobility in. I’ve been digging the last one, the banded reach, for a few months and it’s good one!
How many can you tear?
License plates that is. Most torn in 30 seconds, if you didn’t know, now you know there’s record for that too.
Thanks for reading, until next time!
Justin Miner
@justinminergain