Article - "Maintaining Target Hemoglobin A1c Less than 6% May Increase Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes"

... gonna try something new and just post as thoughts come to mind.
Post titles may be kinda shit or boring as a result ... but away we go!


"Maintaining Target Hemoglobin A1c Less than 6% May Increase Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes"

TL:DR:IMO

• both studies referred to in the CVS article are unpublished.  Very helpful, thanks.A
• in the ACCORD trial, more meds ("combinations of diabetes medications") showed "slightly higher rate of death"
• in the ADVANCE trial, "no evidence of increased mortality with intensive glucose-lowering"
• so, more meds may result in more death as compared to fewer meds ... whoopty-fucking-doo.

Until the studies themselves are published, I think we're done here ... move along, nothing more to see.

-tak!  thbbft!

It's Been A Hot! Hot! Hot! Minute, Hasn't It?

Run, You Clever Boy, And Remember

I've been posting reaps of my training on Instagram as of late ... so yeah, go follow me there ... cactustak.

MTAC Update 2017/09/17 ... (Marathon Training Around City) ... Fantastic weather, and the age old battle of sleep vs. doing rears its ugly head! So, an abbreviated 15+ km for the Long Wander today ... I'll up the distance next weekend, then start to taper in preparation for the mid-October race.

A post shared by cactustak (@cactustak) on Sep 17, 2017 at 10:20pm PDT

Depressing News Of The Day

Well, this is an onion in the ointment!

NYT - How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food
(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth)

from the article ... "Dr. Gibney, the nutritionist and Nestlé consultant, said the company deserved credit for reformulating healthier products."
That's like saying "I stopped punching you in the face with my fist ; now I'm wearing a boxing glove".

I haven't finished the article yet ... but sigh, what a shitshow.

-tak!  thbfft!

#millenializeabook

In memory of @midnight and its Hashtag Wars segment, here's #millennializeabook.

... I haven't seen *every* episode of @midnight, so for all I know they've done that topic ... however googling yields no results, whereas googling a previous topic (say, #SluttyMusicals) does yield results.

So I'm assuming this is all original content!  mwahahahaha!

Also, audience participation time, bitches!  Feel free to join in my fun!

I will be updating this list as more titles cross my mind!

-tak! thbfft!

• The Grape's Of Wrath
• Lord Of Ring's 2 Tower's
• The CatchR In The Rye
• The Loneliness Of The TL:DR Runner
• Crimean Punishment
• Wuthering Height's
• DoctR Zhivago
• Ulysse's
• Pride And Social Justice
• Cry Wolf, You Special Snowflake
• The Snapchat Of Dorian Gray
• The Neverending Instagram Story
• Death Of A Social Media Influencer
• The Brother's Karamazov
• There Eye's Were Watching God
• Winnie The 💩
• No Safe Spaces For Old Men
• The Prince's's Bride
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The Long Wander

Run You Clever Boy, And Remember ...

Sunday, August 6, 2017

A lazy Saturday with mediocre weather, and a long weekend, prompted me to push the long run to Sunday.   Overall, the right call - much nicer weather.

The training plan called for 24 km, and is only going to get longer.  Going around and around and around Queen's Park was starting to get a bit monotonous.  I decided to shake things up - take the Martin Goodman Trail west and then head up to High Park (to go around and around and around there instead)

From home to Long Branch! (map from Wahoo app)

Close-up of Trillium Park detour! (map from Wahoo app)

From home to Long Branch! (map from Runkeeper app)

Close-up of Trillium Park detour! (map from Runkeeper app)

Going along the waterfront was a very nice change of scenery.
Wandered off the trail, and right into Trillium Park!  That was a great detour ... Man, Trillium Park is fucking green!
Then, decided to simply follow the trail until its end, which was at the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, where it turned into the Humber Bay Park Trail.
Followed that as far as I could ... It ended at Norris Crescent Park, so I headed north to Lakeshore Boulevard.
I thought "hey, maybe I'll go west to the Long Branch Loop", so I did.
That was meh ... ok for an urban wander, but otherwise underwhelming.
It was ~22km to the Long Branch Loop, good enough, and time to go home.
Next time, I'm going up to High Park.

-tak! thbfft!

Sunday, Not In The Park, Not With George

Jazz Legs ... That's A Thing, Right?

Sunday, July 30, 2017

(yes, this post is retconned)

My training plan called for 20km this weekend, which would mean ~23km door-to-door.
Instead, I decided to sign up for the Beaches Jazz Run half marathon.  If I'm doing the distance, I may as well get myself a shiny bit of bling while I'm at it.

Unfortunately, the map looks like shit because I ran into some unexpected technology issues on the day ... my phone's GPS decided to make itself useless.

I also thought it would be a good way to gauge where I'm currently at, both compared to last October, and in preparation for my next race this coming October.

The result?  As expected, I set a Personal Worst!!!  (ha ha ha) ... that's the problem with a sample size of 2.

I deliberately started off slower, keeping to heart rate ... yet I still managed to beat my previous time at 5k!  At 10k, I was 28 seconds slower, and then the gap kept widening.

Final result?  3:08:56.7, with a pace of 8:57 min/km  (as compared to 2:59:55.1, with a pace of 8:31 min/km).

What does this mean?  I think I'm running another half marathon in October, although I'll still train for a full.  Well, "train" ... as in I'm really only getting my long run in on a weekly basis.  And maybe I'll sign up for a full in early spring 2018 to see.

Overall it was a pretty nice run - a warm-turning-to-hot sunny day, one of the nicest days we've had this summer, so no complaints.

And I got this, so yay.

-tak! thbbft!

Saturday In The Park ... and also Thursday!

Run You Clever Boy, And Remember

Thursday June 8, 2017

It was a gorgeous day, and I have to get back to running around 3 times a week regardless.
So, after strength training, it was a quick 5+ km clockwise around the park, 9+ km door to door.



Saturday June 10, 2017

More great weather, wooo!
14+ km around the park counterclockwise, 18+ km door to door.

-tak! thbbft!

#np_yyz - 2017/06/07

#np_yyz - Wednesday Morning 6:25AM - 2017/06/07 - #8

good morning Toronto, good morning Mom, good morning #np_yyz #prday!  fuck yeah!

Today's workout and results:
Burpees 53 / 70
Push Ups 70 / 70
Mountain Climbers 70 / 70
Bicycles 70 / 70
Squat Jumps 70 / 70
Hill/Stair Sprints 2 / 10

rules are - do as much as you can, in whatever order/grouping you want, in 30 minutes

Missed a PR, because I forgot how many burpees I had done in my previous PR ... ah well, there's always July!

-tak! thbbft!