Did my first 2 hr run… Clocked in at 18km.
The drop off is huge past the first hour… But still i will take it as a positive.
I am currently reading this thread while eating a pork pie.
Should I feel guilty? 
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Only if you ate it without branston pickle or HP sauce 
I find anything over 250000 Scoville just unbearably hot to deal with. you literally cannot handle the peppers without wearing gloves. So I just stick to habanero’s and scotch bonnets as my top end of heat when I am cooking
I make a pretty tasty pepper sauce and always have some hardwood kicking around my back yard for cooking a batch of jerk chicken.
I am okay with chilly heat. But then conparitively lesser than most of indians. I can handle a birds eye though.
And my legs arent working. I could really do with a nice massage
And i find eating just chillies without the necessary spice to balance it out pointless.
to whom? The pig?
Treating heat in food as a test of tolerance is very much a white guy thing. We recently had some our team over from Singapore, the head of whom is Indian. One of his meals was mild in heat and resulted in several of our team (who are normally more cultured and worldly) being confused about why he didnt get it hotter because they thought “you” were supposed to like hot food.
Hotness in terms of Chillies is one. Spicy in terms of the spices used etc is a totally different thing. Indians are more about the spices and can tolerate that much more than the heat from the chillies. I mean we do have those ghost peppers etc but those are the exceptions and not the norm.
I was acknowledging that distinction, saying there is a white guy thing to treat the heat as a test to pass, rather than a component of the dish to be matched to the spice for balance.
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when I order Indian or Thai (which we have good quality here in Vancouver), when they ask how spicy this is my usual response.
“hot for a white guy” spicy… 
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Yeah 
to the white guy, thai Food, Singapore, Malay, Indonesian, Chinese, Indian food etc… The first word they usually use to describe… Spicy… I wonder what have they been eating
When I was in Vienna, I found the usual hybrid Chinese restaurant which has a sushi train conveyor and also Chinese fried dishes. I order rice with black pepper beef. They ask me how spicy, I said the spiciest. It came out to be sweet, not even a tinge of spiciness. I was not deterred because I rather eat shit asian food than European food so I went 2nd night and ordered the same thing, I requested to talk to the chef making the request in Chinese. So I told him why it’s sweet, he says well the locals think it’s damn spicy already so that night he made me the best black pepper beef I tried in Europe and he told me thanks for requesting it because it’s a long time he had cook something authentic
Then I was in a town in Holland, I think Den Bosch. I went to McDonald’s and they asked me whether I wanted to try their new limited period Asian hot sauce for my nuggets. I say why not. They say they have normal and very spicy. I say the latter. The girl with her sincerity say, are you sure, it’s really spicy. It turns out at best like fucking BBQ ranch sauce.
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Love how the diet/excercise thread gets a discussion on food.
That is sort of the heart of the problem though - I kept my weight to 100kg for the best part of 20 years, then the pandemic came along, I got right into barbeque technique, and now I am working to get down under 110 kg.
But damn, I make some fine ribs these days.
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Think it has to do with tastebuds as well. With asian and indian food , its more about the spice factor from the tastebuds at the base of the tongue whereas the definition of spicy w.r.t european food is more about the taste at the tip of the tongue.
And european food is probably blander than english food (which to some extent has gotten influenced by indian subcontinent cuisine )
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Well I’m still struggling. Mentally this hip is taking its toll now. Telephone conversation with a physio the other day. I have something pressing on my sciatic nerve. No shit Sherlock but I should get a face to face appointment in the next week with luck.
Anyway that evening and completely unexpectedly it cleared. Still a little stiffness, but I had full range of motion and no pain. There was a little at night and again a little stiff in the morning but deciding to ignore that, yesterday I decided to go kitesurfing 
. That was not a good idea. I am really suffering this morning but it was a good idea in that I’ve really missed that past time. So so good to get out again and have that burning sensation of salt in your eyes afterwards. So much so that I may have to convince myself that I need new gear. (cant afford that but needs must, maybe)
Anyhow my largest challenge is still stopping my uncontrolled gorging in the evening.