March 2022

So March turned out to be a fairly solid month, all things considered. Thirty activities and just over 1,343 minutes of moving myself around — which sounds impressive until you realise that the bulk of it was walking (20 of those activities, covering nearly 96km at a pace that wouldn't trouble anyone). The running was the more interesting bit though: ten runs, 61.6km, and a pace of 5:30 per kilometre, which for me at this time of year is perfectly respectable. A couple of PRs snuck in there too, which I'll take, even if I'm slightly suspicious of how some of those indoor benchmarks were set in the first place.

February had been a quieter affair — only 23 activities, 29.7km of running, and a pace a touch slower at 5:43 per kilometre, so March does represent a genuine step forward rather than just wishful thinking. Some of that is probably down to the days finally getting longer and the mornings becoming marginally less grim, which makes it considerably easier to actually leave the house. The walking numbers stayed almost identical between the two months (93.5km in February versus 95.9km in March), which tells me that's just become a reliable baseline rather than anything heroic. So the direction of travel is encouraging — more running, faster running, a couple of PRs — now the obvious question is whether April can build on it, or whether something will inevitably get in the way. It usually does.

Summary generated by Claude