September 2014

September turned out to be a surprisingly busy month, which I'll be honest, I wasn't entirely expecting. 43 activities and just over 914 minutes of actual moving — which sounds impressive until you realise a large chunk of that was me pedalling a Boris Bike through central London trying not to get flattened by a bus. The riding dominated, 34 sessions covering 142 kilometres with 558 metres of climbing, which for largely flat city commuting tells you something about how many hills I managed to find (or possibly how Strava counts canal bridges). The running was quietly encouraging though — 9 runs, 56 kilometres, and a race in the mix, which given my average pace of 7:21 per kilometre was never going to trouble the front of the field, but here we are.

Compared to August the numbers look almost respectable — back then I managed 22 activities and 458 minutes, so roughly doubling the volume in a month feels like progress, even if some of that is just commuting by bike rather than sitting on the tube. The runs improved too, both in distance and pace, which I suspect has more to do with the weather cooling down than any particular discipline on my part (September air is considerably more forgiving than August). So the base is building, the legs are remembering what they're for, and with autumn properly setting in there's a window here to actually get some consistent training done — assuming the dark mornings don't get to me first, which historically they do.

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