🐹 07:50 Treadmill Running 26'51 5.0K1, 5'20/K - The storm was bad enough last night to move cars and Vans that were parked on the seafront and it's thrown most of the beach up over the road. so it would not have been a good day to go outside another runuary2 on the treadmill. why do they keep naming these storms? it only encourages them
217 treadmill uses at £1.52 per use, or £3.88 /month (not including the 'leccy).
Including all the times the wife has been on it, this comes to about £1.34 per go…
Including all the times the boys have (they went on it every day during 110 days of the 2020 covid school lockdown + a brief fitness surge in 2024), this comes to about £0.90 per use…
These are my average kilometre running times during January since Iʼve been doing Runuary2.
This week only.
Second best time this week.
This week I ran 7 times.
Don't want to rush into anything, or over commit, but might actually leave the house today. It should be better today after yesterday's "weather bomb" shouldn't it? It was SO noisy in the night don't think anyone slept through that.
Might run outside today. But might not. Is looking like 100% rain all day so perhaps another day on the treadmill instead.
Have got away with being on call so far this week, so that's good. Work is going quite well. There was a big old incident that I had to respond to yesterday but it happened right before 9am so didn't disturb me in the night. Not like that storm did.
🐹 07:50 Treadmill Running 28'45 5.0K1, 5'43/K - Runuary2 Day 8 still going?. on the treadmill again as I am on call again, doesn't seem to be as cold outside. might even go outside tomorrow. definitely will go on Saturday. this is day 8 of not drinking of course as well
216 treadmill uses at £1.53 per use, or £3.88 per month (not including the 'leccy).
Including all the times wife has been on it, costing about £1.34 per go…
Including all the times the kids have (they went on it every day during 110 days of the 2020 covid school lockdown + a brief fitness surge in 2024), this comes to about £0.90 per go…
These are my average kilometre running times during January since Iʼve been doing Runuary2.
This week only.
Worst time this week!
This week I ran 7 times.
I was searching for Under Neath What vinyl on ebay and I found old posters from Southampton Joiners. They played there at least twice. But so did many others of course, and someone has got hold of the promoter Mint Burston's archive of posters and things 1 and is selling them off at very high prices. I guess most of the good ones have gone but there might be something of interest here. I have not even found one I was at yet. I was not at this one, I wasn't in Southampton in 2000.
Wow never look up people you used to know. Mint died in 2007, but he actually left the Joiners in 1997, so not long after I stopped going there.
He used to let me in for free (eventually) because of my $OLD OUT fanzine I did.
Damn it's warming up, this messes with my plan to claim it is too dangerously icy to commute in to London tomorrow.
Sunny intervals and a moderate breeze, 1 - 5℃.
Someone else having his archive should have given me a clue as to how this story ends...
215 treadmill uses at £1.53 per use, or £3.88 per month (not including the electricity).
Including all the times wife has been on it, this prob'ly comes to about £1.35 per use…
Including all the times the kids have (they went on it every day during 110 days of the 2020 covid school lockdown + a brief fitness surge in 2024), this comes to about £0.90 per go…
These are my average kilometre running times during January since Iʼve been doing Runuary2.
This week only.
This week I ran 7 times.
I did a little search for the ipod jeans I mentioned yesterday, that I first mentioned here twenty years ago. And I can save the results here for posterity! BBC reported on them and BBC are pretty good at keeping their old pages online. They said
Denim giant Levi Strauss has designed a pair of jeans able to control a wearer's Apple iPod music player.
The RedWire DLX Jeans will have an iPod remote control and docking station fitted in its pockets, and comes complete with attached headphones.
To be launched in August, the jeans will cost approximately $200 (£114).
Levi Strauss is not the first to produce iPod-compatible clothing, but it is believed to be the first to do so for trousers or jeans.
No pictures have yet been revealed of the RedWire DLX, or details of how exactly the owner will be able to wash them.
Well there are pictures of them now as these guys are selling an original pair, for £400.
I'm not sure I would have liked them really. They look a bit like the twisted levis that I do still have, though they're a bit too ragged to be cool now. They're inbetween ripped jeans cool and well preserved old jeans, I don't think they're wearable. But anyway enough about my old trousers, if you were worried about putting your ipod through the washing machine it looks like the bit that controls the ipod is detachable.
Sadly I don't think there's any need for this with the bluetooth we have now.
We had a little snow today. Not a lot, not enough to close the schools or to stop either of us going to London this week, just a light dusting. It's still freezing out there, not sure it has gone much above zero at any point. I have not really been out, ran on the treadmill today instead.
Full day of week, now a few hours of peace. The others have gone out to a pub quiz. In Dry January1! I know! I will listen to the live album part of my christmas Pulp album, and dream about Glastonbury.
Had half an hour of free energy today, and got two more tomorrow. It's pointless putting these "sign up here to join Octopus Energy2" affiliate links on here now, as since I broke the secure certificate no-one is stumbling across this site.
Did some more exciting work on my table of running stats again. The best and worst times not only have a little ring round them, they're also underlined. That's to give you a clue they are a link to that day's run stats. So far my best time on show for runuary3 is the freakish 4'20 km I did in January 2020, and the worst time is this misrecorded treadmill action a few days later. This is more exciting than my advent calendar seeing what new delights are going to appear each day. It really is one of the things that will make me get up and get moving in the morning. I look forward to my morning coffees (I'm lookign forward to one now and it's a good twelve hours away) and I look forward to recording new exercise stats. It's good I can entertain myself isn't it?
40Kph winds and light rain showers, 2 - 5℃.
Estimated 2954 cups of coffee from my barista pro4 probably comes to £0.88 per cup (including 4+ years of coffee beans and now servicing4 so not the 'leccy).
Not drinking for the month of January.
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Running at least 5k every day for the month of January.
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🐹 07:13 Treadmill Running 26'43 5.0K1, 5'18/K - Treadmill again for runuary2 day 6, because on call. didn't get called though. Had a cup of tea before run and feel sick now, what has happened to me and tea? I can't drink it any more.
214 treadmill uses at £1.54 per go, or £3.88 per month (not including the electricity).
Including all the times the wife has used it, this probably comes to about £1.35 per go…
Including all the times the boys have (they went on it every day during 110 days of the 2020 covid school lockdown and a brief fitness surge in 2024), this comes to about £0.91 per go…
These are my average kilometre running times during January since Iʼve been doing Runuary2.
This week only.
Best time this week!
This week I ran 7 times.
I see you had snow in other parts of the South of England, but we did not. Not yet. We do have another weather warning, and info about not phoning the school to ask if our little ones can come home early if it snows. But no actual snow.
It is cold though, cold enough for me to crank the heating up. I've had the thermostat at a max of 19℃ but I think I'll treat myself to a 20℃. It's nice that it's on in the morning, my little treat of going from a fairly cold bedroom to a warm bathroom when I first get up is lovely, but when it looks cold, and I know it's cold, I want the house to be warmer. It's at times like this I think "can we get triple glazing? what about quadruple glazing? should I hang curtains again instead of these flimsy blinds??".
I just read an very old blog post because I was drawn in by the headline (yes even though I wrote it myself). It seems like Levi's or someone were going to make jeans with an ipod in, or wired up for sound or something. I think I would buy those now. I see that same thing also links "jon snow" with "snow". Of course, but I'm better than that with my regular expressions these days so it won't do it any more.
Went to the hospital with T2, it was a proper physio session in a big gym. They want us to go back more often than we can possibly fit in with work, so we might compromise and go a bit and do more exercise at home. If it was just down the road I'd send him on his own. I think he'd get into it, and I think he'll enjoy going to the gym like his brother, when he's old enough.
Consequently worked a bit late to make up the time. And now I'm on call too, so fingers crossed no calls in the night.
🐹 07:23 Treadmill Running 28'04 5.0K1, 5'36/K - Runuary2 day five done on the treadmill again. 1) it's very cold again out there again, not sure it got above freezing all weekend. 2) hospital appointment this morning with T2, just a follow up to see if the exercises the physio have home last time for his aching legs worked (spoiler: yes, yes they did). I'm on call for the rest of this week too so that probably means doing most of it on the treadmill. If I go in to London this week I'll have to do that at lunchtime on the mean streets though. Maybe I can do more of this at lunchtimes actually, there will be others to cover in office hours.
213 treadmill uses at £1.55 per go, or £3.88 per month (not including the electricity).
Including all the times the wife has used it, this probably comes to about £1.36 per go…
Including all the times the boys have (they went on it every day during 110 days of the 2020 school lockdown and a fitness surge in 2024), this comes to about £0.91 per go…
These are my average kilometre running times during January since Iʼve been doing Runuary2.
This week only.
Second worse pace for a 05/01.
This week I ran 7 times.
Not a great time, but a normal time, rather than a started-five-minutes-after-everyone-else time so I'll post it here.
Folkestone parkrun results for event #520. Your time was 00:28:03.
Congratulations on completing your 211th parkrun and your 190th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 171st place out of a field of 429 parkrunners. You were the 138th male and came 23rd in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Congratulations on your fastest time this year.
We changed our plan for a train journey to and from Ashford to just driving in the end. We thought traffic and parking might be a nightmare, but I weighed it up against waiting around at the station in the cold and paying for four train tickets. Parking and traffic were busy but ok. We bought new shoes for one, and new trainers for the other, and a new saucepan with our christmas money, and a USB rechargeable salt mill just on a whim. Then a nice Pizza Express. I had the new harissa aubergine and it was good. Not drinking obvs, but still came to over £100 as food is expensive now.
I'm glad Stranger Things is over now. I didn't watch the end of it, the boys are in dispute over whether it ended well or not. I said if you want to invest in a long series that goes out with a disappointing ending may I introduce Lost..? Wife says absolutely no, never again. Now we are free to choose other things, so we watched the new Death In Paradise and then they watched new Traitors. Not sure I can stick it though so I did a bit of the coding I just mentioned and then back to my new Slow Horses book.
Paulʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone in Kent. Married and father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, and I do mostly javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, running, restaurants, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and time travel.
