December 2025

December turned out to be a busier month than I had any right to expect, given that it's the time of year when most sensible people are horizontal on the sofa eating their bodyweight in mince pies. Fifty-four activities, just over 42 hours of moving about — which sounds impressive until you realise that 25 of those were walks, and nearly all the running happened on a treadmill staring at a wall. Still, 74.8km covered across 15 runs at a fairly respectable 5:51 per kilometre, plus 14 Morning HIIT sessions to keep things honest, so I'll take it. The Lunch Walks were doing a lot of heavy lifting in the numbers, racking up 161.8km and nearly 1,500m of elevation between them — apparently I've been walking further than I thought just to escape the office.

So compared to November, which clocked in at 39 activities and just under 35 hours, December was a meaningful step up — more runs, more HIIT, more of everything really. The running volume jumped from 41.7km to 74.8km, which either means my fitness is building nicely or that I've discovered the treadmill is warmer than outside in December (it's definitely the latter). The heart rate on the runs crept up a touch too, which I'm choosing to interpret as working harder rather than being less fit, because the alternative is depressing. Going into January the question is whether any of this consistency actually translates into something useful, or whether I just spent a month getting very good at walking to lunch.

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