July 2015

So July was a busy one on paper — 29 activities and just over seven and a half hours of moving, which sounds impressive until you realise that the vast majority of it was me pedalling a Boris Bike through London looking like a slightly sweaty tourist. Twenty-five of those activities were rides, covering 73.8 km across 277 minutes, which at least earned me 27 personal records (the bar for a PR on a Boris Bike commute is, I'll admit, not particularly high). Running took a bit of a back seat, just four outings totalling 25.6 km at a thoroughly unspectacular 6:59 per kilometre — though in fairness, getting out at all in a British July, where the weather can't quite decide whether it's summer or not, deserves some credit.

Compared to June, the picture is a little mixed. I actually did more activities this month — 29 versus 24 — and nudged the overall active time up slightly from 443 to 456 minutes, so there's something to work with there. The riding has come on considerably, with 25 rides against June's 17 and nearly double the distance, which I'll take. Running, though, went the other way: seven runs in June covering 42.1 km, down to four runs and 25.6 km in July, which is the sort of trend that tends to come back and bite you when there's a race on the horizon. So the legs are ticking over, the commute is getting done, but if I'm honest with myself, I need to get the running shoes on a bit more consistently before the summer completely runs away with me.

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