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August's Journal
13/07/2021
[17:45] Well, the race was incredibly hard. At least for me, as I didn't
manage to finish it. I made it to 56 miles (out of ~66.5) and then just had
to stop at the last aid station as I was too tired to run any more. I could
have walked the last 11 miles or so at a very fast pace, but it was all on
pavement, it would have taken about three and a bit hours (I could have run a
resonable amount of it, I'm sure) and it just wouldn't have been enjoyable. In
all honesty I'm not entirely sure I should have entered at all. It's perfectly
possible that was my last ultra race. I don't think I enjoy them any more, and
I'm not really built for them. I perspire too much, right now I'm the wrong
body composition, and... I don't know, maybe it's the depression talking, but I
don't always enjoy them. They're more of a challenge than something I enjoy
doing. I think I want to do them so it's something I can share with Rel seeing
as I want to spend more time with her than sometimes we're able to have together
on account of not living in the same place. Plus, while I'm good at other
things, I want to be good at the same thing as she's amazing at (naturally she
completed the race, and ranked quite highly) so we can share that aspect of our
lives, too. Not a good reason, but a reason nonetheless. So yes, that was
this weekend just gone. As it was she caught me at mile 40 after starting 45
minutes or so behind me. She's incredible. I just wish I could keep up with
her these days. Speaking of incredible, I should also definitely mention that
she was first-placed woman in the race she did last month. So that's amazing,
too.
Anyway, chances are I won't do another ultra. Unless Rel actively suggests
that I do, which seems unlikely. She's doing at least four 50 milers in the
next 12 months. I don't plan to do any, although I do have two road marathons,
which I should start training a bit of speed back into my legs for. I also
want to see if I can get coaching again. Which requires me to email my
favourite (only) coach to see if he's interested in taking me on again.
Otherwise, the news is that I've had my second jab (absolutely no side effects
as far as I could tell), done some very good work with regard to getting
developers to move off RHEL6 and on to RHEL8, decided not to row this year, and
have plans to go on weekend breaks with both my whole family and another weekend
Rel's. So those'll be nice weekends to tell you a sentence or two about next
time (probably in mid-August). I'm hoping to move broadband supplier in a month
or two as Virgin Media have more than doubled my monthly costs in the last five
months. I've been on the interview panel for another staff member (we decided
not to offer to either of the two candidates), have a virtual tour of the
McLaren F1 factory in a few days (won from a competition of Dell's), might or
might not be attending a picnic hosted by Rel's charity (depends on numbers and
COVID-19 restrictions), and am buying a laptop for Rel's mother so she can turn
her old study into another bedroom by binning the desktop (and desk) in there.
I think that's you all caught up. Perhaps more on my mood, and running, and
all that stuff next time. Once I've had time to think about it all some more.