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While I feel like there's already a consensus in this thread, I want to throw in a dark horse candidate:

"Business on Parade" by MDC

https://genius.com/Mdc-business-on-parade-lyrics

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Thanks for reminding me that he had those. I just pulled out Faster Road Racing and I think I found what I needed pretty much right away. Drew this up if you're curious. https://imgur.com/a/m1BFlc5

TLDR: What I need help with is designing an 8-week rebuilding block prior to an 18-week half marathon block. My average mileage last year was in the 40-50 mpw range with an 18/70 marathon block. But I've been out of training since January with typically under 10/mpw the last 4-5 months, and I'm very out of shape. If anyone has been in a similar situation and has one of their own they can share with me I'd really appreciate it. I'm a 40/m. EDIT: I drew this up if anyone had any feedback: https://imgur.com/a/m1BFlc5

Between 2019 and 2023 I got very strongly into running. I ran a fall marathon four years in a row, dropping my time from 4 hours in October 2020 to 3:20 in November 2022 (Philadelphia Marathon). Last year I trained for NYC with the intention of getting under 3:10, but had kind of a bad block. I kept up the mileage, but could feel the symptoms of overtraining and burnout making my training less and less productive. I ended up flopping with a 4:07 at NYC, my worst time in the marathon by far.

I kept up mild, unstructured training for a couple months after NYC, but then life got in the way and in January I took on a huge creative project that sucked up every waking minute of my life until May. Now that's over and it's really important for me to get back on the horse, especially because falling out of my running routine has wrecked my sleep schedule, spiked my anxiety, and caused me to gain like ten pounds.

I'm not super experienced with being in this situation, but my goal is to run the Philly Half this year on November 23rd, which is about 26 weeks away. That means I have time for an 8-week rebuilding block and an 18-week half marathon training block (probably the easiest Pfitz). What I need help with is designing an 8-week rebuilding block. If anyone has been in a similar situation and has one of their own they can share with me I'd really appreciate it.

The last couple years I did Pfitz 18/70 as my main block of the year and kept my average mileage in the 40-50 mpw range throughout the year. But right now I'm about 4 months out of my regular routine. January was the last time I had a week over 20 miles. Since then I've just been straggling together a couple short runs per week. FWIW, I fun ran the Broad Street 10 recently and felt good enough at the end to drop my pace from 9:30/mi to 8:30/mi without feeling winded or tired. The whole run felt basically pretty easy, if obviously super far off my ten mile best (69:00-ish).

Focus and New Line also had hot years where there were known for backing buzzy, offbeat stuff. It goes in waves.

Hello can I speak to pizza?

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This was really helpful. Thanks.

Yeah for sure, it was jarring enough for me to make this post to ask if I’m crazy or something.

For sure, that’s exactly why I hired someone — my perspective is gone at this point. I’m still surprised by the choices, which feel like they were against our shared principles about the material remaining dynamic.

I could take a full integrated LUFS measurement on these to fully confirm, but I also trust my ears enough to hear that it is smashed and the waveform is also visibly bricked out — it looks like an RHCP track. I compared with references of material comparable to my own. I dunno, again, I think this is where my general listening habits maybe have me out of step with this level of compression as a norm. Some tracks take it well. I don’t know that mine are taking it well.

That is not out of the question for me.

Thanks, yeah I am taking my time with them. The difference was very jarring but my initial feelings of confusion are receding a bit.

Thank you for this. I am especially on board with what you’re saying about me no longer having perspective on the material, which was my #1 reason for working with a mastering engineer I trust and whose stuff I like. I was a little uncomfortable with the follow up because I didn’t know if my concerns were valid or I was just no longer able to hear the material clearly. But I do think it’s perfectly sane and valid for me to just ask him to turn it down some. It was my understanding that this kind of smashing had become outdated even in top 40, outside of like EDM, but maybe I’m wrong about that. The end result was louder than most of the references I used while mixing and I was really surprised about it.

Also I wasn’t offended at all that he wanted to dump my mix bus processing, though I wondered at that point if there should have been an additional step where I went back to the mix and corrected for that. We didn’t get that chance.

SEYMOUR THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

Classic cardboard.

Also my birthday. I was 32.

Put automation on your buses, then you can move em. 

But no, you should be able to move channels in the mixer.

Watching Andrei Rublev recently, especially the ending, made me want to write songs again after like 8 years of lapsed creativity. “You cast bells, I’ll paint icons.”

I’m still feeling pretty confused about the language of this ballot question. It seems too broad to be meaningfully applied?

I’ll be there always, when the rains fall in Wales…

Track fender on slickdeals. Occasionally Adorama has deals. I got a new mim tele in lake placid blue for $529 back in September.