February 2024

So February was, by the numbers at least, a fairly solid month — 47 activities and just over 2,000 minutes of moving about, which I'm reasonably happy with for the shortest month of the year. The bulk of that was walking, 25 sessions covering 150 kilometres and 2,500 metres of elevation, which sounds impressive until you remember that most of it was me trudging around at lunchtime in the cold. Running sat at 11 sessions and just over 50 kilometres at an average of 5:37 per kilometre, all of it done indoors (February in the UK being what it is), and I kept up the 11 HIIT sessions too, which at least means I can't claim I did nothing useful. Not a month of heroics, but the consistency was there, which is more than I can say for some months.

Comparing it to January does sting slightly, if I'm honest. January had 15 runs covering 76 kilometres at a noticeably quicker 5:26 per kilometre, and I'd even managed a swim in there somewhere, so February was a step back on pretty much every running metric that matters. Some of that is simply the calendar — February is shorter, the mornings are grim, and the treadmill starts to feel like a very boring hamster wheel after a few weeks of it. The drop in pace and volume isn't a disaster, but it's a reminder that I can't afford to let things drift too far if I want to be in any kind of shape for spring. So, onwards.

Summary generated by Claude