November 2014

So November turned out to be a surprisingly busy month, at least by recent standards. Nineteen activities, 416 minutes of moving around and pretending to be athletic — split between 16 rides and 3 runs, which tells you something about where my priorities currently lie. The riding was mostly Boris Bike commuting, which I'm choosing to count as proper training rather than just avoiding the Tube (it absolutely counts). The runs are where it gets more interesting though — 27.5km across three outings, including what Strava is calling a race, logged under the rather optimistic banner of the Men's Health Evening Run, which I'll take as a win even if the pace of 6:38 per kilometre suggests I was mostly just jogging through the dark trying not to trip over anyone.

Compared to October, the numbers are actually quite encouraging, which surprised me. October mustered just 8 activities and 123 minutes total, so November more than tripled the time spent doing anything useful — though I suspect the Boris Bike commutes are doing a lot of the heavy lifting there. The elevation is up, the achievements are up (71 of them, apparently, including 24 PRs on the bike), and I'd like to think that means fitness is heading in the right direction. So going into December, the honest question is whether I can keep any of this momentum going when it's properly cold, properly dark, and the mince pies start appearing in the office. History suggests the answer is no, but let's see.

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