March 2023

March felt like a reasonable month, all things considered. Forty-five activities and just under 1,760 minutes of moving about the place, which sounds more impressive than it probably was. The mix was pretty familiar — eleven runs totalling 57.4km at an average pace of 5:26 per km, nine HIIT sessions that my heart rate suggests I was taking at least somewhat seriously (125 bpm average, so not exactly maximal effort), and a frankly enormous 25 walks covering 119 kilometres and nearly 1,700 metres of elevation. The Morning Runs and Morning HIIT sessions were the backbone of it, and the walking numbers are what they are — a lot of Lunch Walks and Afternoon Walks that I'm choosing to count as training and not just getting out of the office.

So compared to February, the month looks almost identical on paper, which is either reassuring or mildly depressing depending on how you look at it. The headline numbers are basically the same — 45 activities, similar total minutes — but a few things shifted quietly underneath. I dropped the rowing entirely (five sessions in February, zero in March), the running pace came down a touch from 5:34 to 5:26 per km, and the walking elevation jumped by a useful 359 metres, which I'll attribute to spring arriving and making it slightly less miserable to actually go outside. February had five achievements and two PRs; March managed four achievements and one PR, which tells its own story. The direction of travel is fine, just not exactly rapid — something I'm going to have to address if I want the summer to look any different from the spring.

Summary generated by Claude