July 2020

So July, then. 56 activities and just under 2,827 minutes of moving about, which sounds impressive until you realise that 28 of those activities were walks and the British summer apparently gave me every excuse to get outside and amble around rather than do anything that might actually hurt. The running was the highlight if I'm honest — 13 runs, 140.4 kilometres, and somehow 13 personal records, which I'll take, even if a 5:22 average pace suggests I'm not exactly troubling the front of any pack. I did manage to get in the pool once for a 2km swim, which felt like a victory in itself given how long it had been, and the FiiT workouts kept ticking over indoors when motivation for anything more heroic was lacking.

Comparing July to June is a slightly humbling exercise. The headline numbers look remarkably similar — almost identical mileage on the runs (140.4km versus 140.3km, which is either impressive consistency or evidence that I just do the same routes on repeat), but June had 63 activities to July's 56 and a noticeably busier indoor schedule, with Joe Wicks PE sessions and considerably more weight training sessions filling the gaps. So it seems that as the weather improved and I could get outside more easily, I quietly dropped some of the structured indoor work that lockdown had forced upon me — which is probably not the sensible direction of travel. Something to keep an eye on going into August, assuming I don't talk myself out of it.

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