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January's Journal
March's Journal
16/02/2022
[15:15] What's gone on since the beginning of January... Let me see... I find
at times like this Google Calendar is pretty much the only thing that helps me
remember what I've been up to. I never used to be a diary/calendar person. So
little happened in my life that I could basically hold it all in my head and
still have room for Babylon 5 trivia. Not so much these days. I lay some of
that at the feet of Rachel, who has filled my life with a lot more interesting
things than I'd otherwise be up to. Especially in recent years. So, yes...
First off there has been a lot of running as I train for a half marathon in
March and the Manchester Marathon in April. A lot of running. And
also some gym work. I started off going heavy on legs and arms, but more
recently I've developed a bit of a habit of working on my core a little more
strongly. This is mainly because I've noticed I've been eating far too many
carbohydrates in the last few years and I'm finally old enough that my body has
decided to hold on to them, especially around my middle. Also runners need
strong cores (more so if they're running off road, which I'm not doing too
much at the moment, but it pays to be prepared). Other than the running, there
wasn't much going on for me. Rachel came and went as she was able to, splitting
her life between three houses as she is right now. I was lucky to see her as
much as I did, but it still didn't feel like enough. There was lots of patching
of servers at work as we enter Q1 of the patching cycle for the year (and it's
still going on, with patching tomorrow morning). For the last weekend of
January Rachel and I headed down to Cornwall so she could run the Arc50 (the
little brother of the Arc of Attrition race). She did pretty well, and I was
happy to crew for her with her aunt providing transportation between the points
we chose for restocking, etc.
Honestly, other than some visits from people to talk about the state of my back
garden lawn, new trainer deliveries, and Rachel slowly getting furniture
delivered to her house (she has a bed now, at least), not a lot has gone on.
Although I have bought an axe (for Rachel to use for splitting kindling for her
log-burner).
Rachel's due here this evening after spending a few days at her Croydon flat and
working in London during the day. Tomorrow we head off to her house up north
and on Friday my brother and his son arrive to spend the weekend with us doing
fun things. Hopefully the weather won't be too atrocious. I'll be back home
again on Monday evening, so I'll be working from (someone else's) home on Friday
and Monday. There's no desk at Rachel's house yet, so nowhere to set up the
extra monitors I have, so it's going to be interesting working just from a
laptop screen!
Right, I think that's everything up to date now. Nothing else to report except
that I'll be keeping on running (faster and faster if my coach has any say in
my sessions, which he obvious does), eating, sleeping, and working. See you
in March with (I hope) good news about my half marathon.