July 2024

So July was, by my standards, a fairly steady month — 39 activities and just over 1,500 minutes of actual movement, which sounds respectable until you remember that 24 of those activities were walks. To be fair, 109 kilometres of walking across the month is nothing to be sniffed at, and somewhere in there I managed to bag a PR, which I'll take. The running held together reasonably well too — 8 runs, 42 kilometres, averaging around 5:41 per kilometre — though the fact that 7 of those were done indoors tells its own story about either my relationship with British summer weather or my relationship with the treadmill (probably both). I kept the Morning HIIT sessions ticking over as well, 7 of them, which at least gives me the moral satisfaction of having done *something* before the day got away from me.

So compared to June, the drop-off is pretty hard to ignore — 59 activities down to 39, nearly 1,300 fewer minutes, and my running volume almost halved from 61 kilometres to 42. June's numbers were frankly better in almost every category, which is a slightly deflating thing to type in what is supposed to be summer. Whether that's down to holidays, long evenings somehow not translating into long runs, or just the general entropy that July seems to bring, I couldn't say with complete honesty. What I can say is that the pace stayed almost identical — 5:40 versus 5:41 per kilometre — which either means I'm admirably consistent or, as I suspect, I've just found a comfortable gear and parked it there. August, then. More of a push required.

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