April 2020

So April, then. With the world having firmly shut itself indoors, I somehow managed to clock up 74 activities and just over 3,500 minutes of moving about — which, by any measure, is a lot, though in fairness about half of that was "exercising the kids" (which is apparently a thing I do now). The running was the highlight, 13 runs covering 135 kilometres at an average pace of 5:31 per kilometre, with 23 personal records along the way, which sounds impressive until you remember that I'm essentially making up new routes around the same few streets and calling them races. Joe Wicks also featured heavily — 33 workouts in total, including PE Day 9 and PE Day 14, which I'd like to think means I did them all in between, though the gaps in the record suggest otherwise. A lone bike ride with Hamish rounded things out nicely, all 8.8 kilometres of it, which at least proves the bike still works.

Compared to March, the step change is fairly dramatic — 35 activities and 1,410 minutes versus 74 and 3,514, which is either a sign of tremendous lockdown productivity or a worrying amount of time spent not sitting on the sofa. The running jumped from 98 to 135 kilometres, the walking nearly tripled, and the workouts went from 10 to 33, which I'm choosing to frame as discipline rather than desperation. March had a swim and some yoga, which feels like a previous life now the pool is firmly closed. So the question going forward is whether any of this translates into something useful once the world reopens, or whether I'll find that running laps of the village and following Joe Wicks in the living room turns out to be surprisingly poor preparation for an actual race.

Summary generated by Claude