I’ll be honest, as someone who loves riding bikes, I’ve always felt that running is (tongue in cheek) for chumps.
I’ve finished 200mi rides and loved them. I’ve finished intense 80mi races and loved them. I’ve been on rides with over 15,000ft of climbing in a day. I loved them. I’ve passed 75,000ft of climbing in a week and loved that too!
I’ve never enjoyed a run, but I’m hard-pressed to think of a bike ride I didn’t enjoy. Give it a shot!
Have you tried trail running? Running in nature on windy trails is much more fun than just running along on asphalt. Because each trail is different it's also more difficult to compare pace and time between runs, so it's easier to stop thinking about the clock and just focus on the trail in front of you.
I hate running on tread mills even though that's probably also good training, but I don't consider it "real running" because of how mind numbing it is. But I always look forward to a good run in nature no matter the weather or time of year.
Our local community college had a game dev camp in the summer, and that was a great start for my 9yo b/c it had a program for him to follow and kids like himself with whom to learn. Then this past holiday season we built a game together. I've built software for 23 years but never a game. He taught me so much! I taught him things like how to get something deployed so his buddies could see it online. Great fun.
And since the camp was thru the community college, it was very affordable. I think it was $150 for the week.
It's probably all the "travel teams" pushing up the averages.
In my region travel teams for all sports are out of control. So long as you're willing to pay, your not-really-talented kid can play. And if your kid can't make the original travel team, or the one after that, or the one after that, someone is happy to fund their boat by creating another team.
This is very concerning, but I think my bigger, more immediate worry - and one I suspect will happen at a much larger scale in the US, if not the world - is the use of these tools in bullying, particularly among school-aged kids. The detrimental effects on kids (and thus, eventual adults) due to the misuse of these tools could be cataclysmic.
Not OP, but reasons that are pretty easy to imagine:
- Living in America and suffering from either cancer, heart disease, or any chronic illness.
- Have any number of children and not having a family member available to care for them before they are of school age and after school from Kindergarten until whatever local laws permit for the child to be home alone for a few hours a day.
- Buying a home at the wrong time and taking an absolute bath on the "investment" once some unforseen circumstance forces you to sell the home while upside down on the mortgage.
- Experiencing various forms of fraud.
- Experiencing a lawsuit in America, whether you came out as the winner of said dispute or not.
- Being 50 and having had the poor but not unreasonable "luck" of having worked for the wrong start-ups in 1999, 2007, and 2022.
I can't believe you would dare to imply that these companies and VCs actually bear some responsibility and that their incessant whining that it's not actually their fault at all isn't entirely true.
This is right. The dot-com crash was an absolute crash. Not "we're laying off 5-15% of our company." It was a lot of "This media darling that had an IPO after 2 years of operations no longer exists."
In my social group of about 30 folks, I think at ~25 of us all experienced months of unemployment, at the least.
This, think companies going out of business left and right. Not 5-15% layoffs after the company doubled or tripled in size over 2-3 years.
Almost no one I knew worked right through it without being impacted, and some people had huge impacts. I worked as a contractor for 2 years afterwards before getting back into a startup. I knew some people who were out of work 6 months or a year and came back with huge pay cuts.
Tons of people I knew ended up with furniture and servers in their house they took when the company closed and management/investors didn't want any of it.
I was lucky enough to grab a new position through someone I knew fairly quickly. But, in the month it took for the company to actually extend an offer, I didn't have so much as a nibble from anyone else. And I definitely knew people who just got out of the industry.
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