Blog ≫ 2024 ≫ Health stats 15/10/24
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Fog. 10 - 11℃
🚶 450 steps
Fog. 10 - 11℃
I have no time to talk about anything except I've just been to London for work, or I'm just going to London for work. Tomorrow I'm going back to London for work. It is taking up more of my life than the fun parts of my life at the moment. Also the weather is not going to be good, and I think I have run out of things to see at the cinema. I feel like I should treat myself to my own room with a TV in it and just have a peaceful evening. But not this time.
I have booked some days off though, got four days off in less than three weeks, that will break it up nicely. I'm going to take some mid-week days so as to properly disrupt this London working, so there will be no hostel trip next week or the week after I hope. Going to York and to Portsmouth soon, so I can start planning and packing for those. Once I get back from London that is.
Comedy twenty-nine years ago today, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring's Fist Of Fun in Portsmouth.
Drizzle and a gentle breeze, 11 - 17℃.
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Passing clouds. 9 - 10℃
Just drove through Sandgate and there are big posters up on Sandgate Vaults1 saying Nepalese restaurant opening soon. Friends went in the original Anapurna in Folkestone last night, and so they know that original one is staying open, and the new one in Sandgate will be an expansion. Hope it is good!
Now we need something interesting to move into the old Gate 28 too.
As it's buy one get one free I've gone for prescription sunglasses for the second pair. Clare points out this is a terrible idea, they're only good for people who need glasses for out and about, and I only need them for reading. Well it's done now. I've gone for the mid range glasses too instead of the more expensive ones, as I keep losing and breaking them.
10cc, Manic Street Preachers, David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Both boys did well this week, new PB for both of them
Radnor Park junior parkrun results for event #11. Your time was 00:13:20.
Congratulations on completing your 4th junior parkrun and your 3rd at Radnor Park junior parkrun today. You finished in 72nd place out of a field of 132 parkrunners. You were the 45th male and came 15th in your age category JM11-14. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.
So we can update the table:
| Date | Distance | T1 pace | T2 pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-03 | 1km | 5'56 | 6'36 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1km | 5'31 | 6'34 |
| 2024-05-27 | 1km | 5'11 | 6'44 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1km | 5'05 | 6'49 |
| 2024-06-30 | 1km | 5'07 | 6'41 |
| 2024-08-04 | 1km | 4'49 | 6'15 |
| 2024-08-06 | 1km | 4'43 | 5'57 |
| 2024-09-28 | 5km | 6'02 | |
| 2024-09-29 | 2km | 7'43 | |
| 2024-10-05 | 5km | 5'53 | |
| 2024-10-06 | 2km | 6'56 | |
| 2024-10-12 | 5km | 5'52 | |
| 2024-10-13 | 2km | 6'40 |
I also ran this morning, first to Hythe to pick up the car that we left there yesterday afternoon. Was not planning to go out all weekend, but Clare called to say she was back from her spa day and in Hythe and did I want anything? And I said yes, I want to go to the pub, so we did, though very briefly. Then back to cook pie and mash for tea and then we watched Mission Impossible 3.
Busy-ish day today for me, but two of the tasks already done with the car run and the park run. Shopping delivery to assist with any minute, then another shop for the things we forgot, then to the opticians to choose glasses. Then taking Clare to the station as she's going to a Suede thing with another friend of ours. I originally didn't want to go, as it's not a gig, it's an on stage interview with the band and a Q and A type thing, followed by a playback of the album. But now I have the idea that they have announced this kind of thing before and it's turned out to secretly be a gig. It's probably not this time, but if is, I will feel I foolishly missed out. Then I'm picking them up from the station again later. Today is a not drinking today.
Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze, 8 - 11℃.
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Best time this week! Worst pace for a 13/10!
| date | '18 | '19 | '20 | '21 | '22 | '23 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/10 | 5'11 | 5'39 | |||||
| 13/10 | 5'09 | 5'15 |
Clear. 6 - 7℃
Green Day demastered their debut album to celebrate thirty years since its release. They have put it on all sorts of devices that it was never meant to be heard on, including a Gameboy cartridge and a big mouth billy bass fish.
Just regenerated my record collection homepage for the first time in a while and the prices have shifted around a bit. Not sure why the Suede album is this price. If I look on discogs.com directly and sort by median price then Revolver by The Beatles comes out top, with Suede only in fourth, and if search by max price paid on discogs for an album I own it is Wham Fantastic. Must surely have been a signed copy or something. This Suede album is like new. Number three on the list there, the Black Sabbath one, I would have paid about £1 at a boot fair for that. Still here's the top ten right now:
A wet parkrun today, hoofing it down, but I'm glad T1 was still keen to come with me. I gave him my new waterproof running top and my running shoes, and I wore my old ones and my non waterproof top. I got soaked. We went at his pace again and he did well, did not stop, and was three seconds faster than last week.
Folkestone parkrun results for event #456. Your time was 00:29:23.
Congratulations on completing your 168th parkrun and your 153rd at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 169th place out of a field of 277 parkrunners. You were the 135th male and came 21st 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. Your best time this year remains 00:23:32.
T2 came with us and waited in the cafe. I actually forgot to take my laptop with me, which was the plan. Just got away with being on call again.
Light rain showers and a moderate breeze, 4 - 14℃.
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