January 2015

So January, then. Three runs, 16.3km and just over an hour and forty minutes of actual movement — which, given that it's the depths of a British winter and the sofa is right there, I'm choosing to view as a minor victory. The pace came in at 6:18 per kilometre on average, which isn't going to trouble anyone's Strava feed, but it's moving in the right direction. The standout session was an Evening Run, which tells its own story — dark, probably cold, almost certainly damp, and done anyway (eight personal records from three runs, which either means I'm getting faster or simply that the bar was set reassuringly low to begin with).

Compared to December's two runs and 9.1km, this is actually a reasonable step up — more distance, more time out, and a pace that's improved by about twenty seconds per kilometre, which I'll take. December was, let's be honest, the kind of month where a Morning Run feels like an achievement just for happening at all, and two sessions in thirty-one days suggests Christmas had something to answer for. So fifteen achievements and eight PRs in January does feel like a genuine bit of momentum building, even if the overall numbers are still fairly modest. The question now is whether February can keep that going, or whether the weather has other plans — and in my experience, it usually does.

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