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John McT
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Endurance junky — once a chef, now a frazzled father!

Host of shipitsipit.xyz 🎙 & clip cutter at Clipwing.pro

Keep showing up 💪
I made it far enough on lovable today that I made a thing that didn’t work and then ran out of free messages.

But there was a stretch there in the middle where it felt a little like magic
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just keep showing up. Even if you show up before anyone else
February 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Squats were feeling weak AF this morning but here ya go.

Keep showing up
January 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
GM! Did you get your morning sunlight?
December 19, 2024 at 9:14 AM
real talk
Sometimes feels like running a SaaS company has messed me up as a person.

Christmas is soon. Presents! Family! Food! Instead I'm like "I don't have time for this."

The constant stress feels like I need to be working every single day. I'm always behind. Always need to improve. It's untenable.
December 16, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Sunday before dawn is quiet in the gym.

Moving into the strength block — lower reps, more plates.

105 kg ✅ #deadliftinpublic
December 15, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Run the numbers on YouTube shorts, the percent of folks that watch to the end is tiny. And the percentage of those who take action instead of watching the next short is smaller.

So what's the point?

You can still make shorts with intent — ones that are shocking, controversial, cool, and human.
December 12, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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I'm looking for more self-taught or bootcamp trained devs to do interviews for my No CS Degree website

• Interviews go out to 8000 newsletter subscribers
• DA backlink of 41
• You get to plug your product for free 😀
• You can encourage more people to get into coding

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Apply to be interviewed by No CS Degree
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December 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
People who live in the gray, dark north, question:

Do you use a SAD lamp? I'm considering one to switch on while I have my coffee before my morning workout.

It's still very dark out at that time and am wondering if it would help in general and/or boost energy pre-workout.
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December 10, 2024 at 8:59 AM
100 kg ✅
December 8, 2024 at 4:29 PM
it's Friday and I only ran once this week and I'm definitely losing my mind a little.
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December 6, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I want to test build a directory site. I'm not a coder.

the options are overwhelming. feels like I could waste dozens of hours trying different platforms and running into dead ends.

if it's actually gonna work, it's gonna need a blog to go with the directory.

any advice?
December 6, 2024 at 11:46 AM
trail running races
What do you call hard things that don't feel hard because you're fired up about them (or good at them), even though they are hard?
December 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM
ok ChatGPT write me some bait that will piss off all the copywriters on LinkedIn
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 AM
A thread of all my chats with founders working in FitTech and HealthTech over the last 3 years of Ship it and Sip it.

Starting with the most recent — Virginia launched dawnfitness.co this fall.

Her story is amazing because she worked on the startup through college and her MBA 💪
December 5, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Another brick laid 💪

What’s your strength training streak at?

#runchat
December 5, 2024 at 5:03 AM
I think this is like the 3rd time I've tried to move to TrainingPeaks and am always surprised how weird and kinda bad it is.

Why are they giving me a new threshold power metric after every ride?

Will give the virtual ride app a shot. can't be worse than Garmin's Tacx app (I hope)
Right now TrainingPeaks Virtual is free, until April 2025 and does everything Zwift does if not better. No reason to spend $20/months until then #TPVirtual
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 AM
If you had an indoor bike trainer setup but knew you could only use it 1-2 times max per week, would you:

1. Pay for Zwift anyway cuz it's the best / most fun
2. Use something free and just suffer through it.

Would love to hear your opinion and see some options!

#cycling #zwift
December 2, 2024 at 2:58 PM
What are you cookin today?
December 1, 2024 at 2:29 PM
After an OK block of marathon training but no fall marathon, I was feeling a bit directionless in training.

The fall grey came on strong and I quickly pivoted to a little strength + bulk block.

Gaining was easy thanks to the marathon training appetite. Gained ~3.5kg over ~6 weeks.

#hybridtraining
November 30, 2024 at 7:17 AM
got to chat #running a bit on my last episode of Ship it and Sip it with Virginia.

She's the founder of a new fitness app for young women — dawnfitness.co

Running is the best way to convince yourself you can do anything!

youtube.com/shorts/qZ0n0...
She ran a half marathon while in grad school and launching a startup 💪
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November 29, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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It's time y'all
go.bsky.app/EWR2hu1

raise your hand in the comments to be added
November 28, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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I'm sending my recap of the week's indie startup news today!

You can get it by signing up for free here:

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November 29, 2024 at 12:44 PM
let my first post here be this morning's squats 💪

so I know my form is pretty bad, but I have awful hip and ankle mobility so this is as good as it gets (for now)

who's running and lifting on this network?
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM