February 2026

So February, then. Forty-seven activities and just over 1,800 minutes of moving myself around, which sounds reasonably impressive until you realise January was 58 activities and nearly 2,600 minutes, but we'll get to that. The running was the highlight, if highlight is the right word — 17 sessions covering 92km at an average of 5:37 per km, including a PR somewhere in there, which I'll take given that twelve of those runs were on a treadmill staring at a wall (the British winter offering its usual gift of dark, wet mornings that make outdoor running feel like a lifestyle choice you're being punished for). The HIIT sessions kept ticking over, twelve of them at an average heart rate of 126 bpm, which is either evidence of solid effort or the fact that I find burpees genuinely alarming. I did manage one swim — one — covering 1.2km in 28 minutes, which I'm choosing to log as cross-training rather than evidence that the pool and I have drifted apart.

So compared to January, the numbers are down pretty much across the board, and I can't entirely blame the weather, though I will anyway. Walking took the biggest hit — 87.6km in February versus 147.7km in January, and nearly 600 fewer minutes on my feet, which tells its own story about short days and the gravitational pull of staying indoors. The swimming has also quietly collapsed from four sessions to one, which I'm going to file under "something to address" rather than examine too closely right now. The running volume is actually up slightly on January's 83.4km, which is the one thing I can feel quietly good about, pace improving a fraction too. So going into March, the goal is simple enough: get outside more, get back in the pool more than once, and try not to let the walking quietly disappear — it does more work than I usually give it credit for.

Summary generated by Claude