February 2016

So February, then. Thirty-six activities logged, which sounds impressively industrious until you realise that thirty-five of them were on the bike and the solitary run was a grand total of 0.1 kilometres — roughly the distance from my desk to the coffee machine. Four hundred and twenty-seven minutes of moving, 143.9 kilometres covered on the turbo or the roads, and 1,011 metres of elevation climbed, which at least suggests I wasn't just freewheeling. The Evening Ride sessions did the heavy lifting, as they tend to do in February when getting outside before dark requires either a headtorch or a very flexible definition of "evening."

Compared to January, the numbers actually look reasonable on paper — nearly double the rides, double the kilometres, and 35 achievements including 14 PRs — though I should note that January included an actual run, 10.2 kilometres of it, at a pace that makes February's 0.1 km effort look frankly embarrassing in comparison. So the running has essentially been retired for winter, which is either a sensible acknowledgement of dark, wet mornings or a convenient excuse depending on how honest I'm feeling. The average heart rate dropping from 152 to 136 bpm probably tells its own story about how hard I'm actually pushing. Still, the base is building, the legs are turning, and spring — and presumably running again — will arrive eventually.

Summary generated by Claude