January 2021

January was, by any measure, a busy month. 82 activities and just under 3,000 minutes of moving about — which sounds impressive until you remember that most of it happened because leaving the house for exercise was essentially the only legal form of freedom available to anyone in January 2021 (lockdown has a wonderful way of focusing the mind). The headline was running: 31 runs, 224.9km, and I managed to complete the RED January challenge, which given the weather — there was one particularly grim effort on Day 24 that apparently involved ice, hence the snowflake I felt compelled to add to the activity name — felt like a genuine achievement. I also got back on the bike a bit more, racking up seven rides and 115km including a virtual spin around Innsbruck, which is considerably more enjoyable than cycling around Innsbruck would be in actual January.

So compared to December, the numbers are fairly stark — 82 activities versus 30, nearly 2,000 more minutes, and almost three times the running distance. December was, if I'm being honest, a bit of a write-off: 10 runs and 80km, a solitary three-minute swim that I'm not entirely sure counts, and a gradual slide towards the biscuit tin. January forced a course correction, partly through commitment to RED, partly through having nowhere else to be. The FiiT workouts have also crept back in — 20 sessions in January against five in December — which suggests some ambition around building a bit of structure beyond just logging miles. Whether that ambition survives February is, as always, another matter entirely.

Summary generated by Claude