May 2018

May turned out to be a reasonably busy month by my current standards — 17 activities and just under six hours of moving around and pretending to be athletic. The split was fairly typical: nine rides around Horsham (which at this point probably know me better than I know them), seven runs, and one swim that lasted all of three minutes and covered 0.2km, which I'm choosing to count as a swim rather than what it almost certainly was. The running was the more interesting story — 34km across seven sessions, a couple of personal records on the indoor running front, and parkrun making its usual appearance as the weekly reminder that other people are considerably faster than me. Average pace of 6:21 per km isn't going to worry anyone, but it's honest, and at least my heart rate of 158 suggests I was trying.

So comparing May with April is a slightly mixed picture. April actually had me running faster — 6:06 per km against this month's 6:21 — and the cycling was more productive too, with 50.9km and 288m of climbing versus 41.7km and 217m in May, despite both months clocking the same 17 activities. April threw up 20 running achievements and 7 PRs, which makes May's 3 achievements feel a little underwhelming if I'm being honest about it (and I usually am). It's possible the spring weather lulled me into doing slightly more in April, or possibly I just had a few more good days. Either way, the consistency is there even if the intensity has softened a touch, and I suppose turning up reliably is the thing I should be taking away from this rather than fretting about the numbers.

Summary generated by Claude