March 2026

March was ticking along reasonably well — 45 activities, just over 32 hours of moving around in various ways, which by my standards counts as committed. The running was the headline, with 13 runs covering 71.8 km at an average pace of 5:41 per km, a mix of indoor treadmill sessions and the occasional venture outside now that spring was at least threatening to appear. I'd also kept up the HIIT work with 10 Morning HIIT sessions, squeezed in a couple of swims, and somehow accumulated over 114 km of walking (20 sessions, which does make me sound either very virtuous or very bad at sitting still). So, on the whole, a decent enough month — right up until the 18th, when my appendix apparently decided it had had enough and I found myself in hospital having it removed (not exactly the kind of personal best I'd been chasing).

So comparing March back to February is a slightly uncomfortable exercise, given that February was genuinely one of my better months — 17 runs, 92 km, a personal record in there somewhere, and the kind of consistency that makes you feel like things are heading somewhere. March was already down on that before the surgery intervened, with 20 km fewer run and four fewer sessions, which suggests I was perhaps already losing a little momentum. The appendix situation has now put everything on hold for a week or two — I'm told I should be back to "normal activities" fairly soon, though I suspect whoever said that has a fairly optimistic definition of normal. The honest reflection going forward is that April is going to be about getting back out there rather than building on anything, and I'd do well to remember that.

Summary generated by Claude