December 2010

So December, then. Two runs, 104 minutes of actual effort, and 14.1 kilometres covered at a pace that my watch was kind enough not to judge too harshly (7:24 per kilometre, since you ask). Given that this is the month where darkness descends by about half past three and the pavements do their best impression of a skating rink, I'll take it. The notable session was a Morning Run, which sounds straightforward enough, though getting out of a warm bed in December to go anywhere on foot deserves some kind of recognition in itself.

Compared to November, things did actually improve slightly, which is not something I say often about December. Last month was a single run — 45 minutes, 6.3 kilometres — so doubling the activity count and adding nearly 8 kilometres to the total is, by my standards, a meaningful step forward. The elevation jumped too, from a fairly flat 10 metres in November to 206 metres across December's runs, so either the routes got more interesting or I simply stopped avoiding the hills I'd been quietly routing around. So the trajectory is gently upward, which is encouraging, though I'm under no illusions that two runs a month is going to form the foundation of anything particularly impressive come spring.

Summary generated by Claude