November 2010

So November, then. One run. A single 45-minute morning outing covering 6.3 kilometres at a pace that, at 7:05 per kilometre, suggests I was either taking in the autumn scenery or genuinely finding it hard going (probably both). The elevation was a fairly unambitious 10 metres, which at least confirms I wasn't tackling anything heroic. Still, it's logged, it happened, and on a cold November morning that counts for something.

The comparison with October is, if I'm honest, a little uncomfortable to type — October recorded precisely zero activities, which means November's solitary Morning Run represents a 100% improvement on the month before. So there's that. Whether it's the shorter days, the darker mornings, or just life getting in the way, it's clear that autumn is not historically my most prolific training period. Going forward, the honest takeaway is probably that one run in two months is not a fitness plan so much as a holding pattern, and if I'm going to toe the line at anything resembling a race in the new year, something is going to have to change. Probably me, getting out of bed.

Summary generated by Claude