Excessive heat

If you’re going to go running out there, make sure you bring some water. A lot of it…

Training

Week 5 runs starting. 5 minutes, 3 times and a 3min break in between.

Last night hardly got any sleep, and this morning, when I checked the weather, it wasn’t surprising with 89% humidity according to Google and weather.com

What if you were invited to your own funeral?

I posted this a while ago.

But given I’ve had my uncle lose his fight for life, and my uncle’s mother-in-law also lose her fight for life, I wanted to reference this article again. This article might be about speeding, but there’s an important point within in — you have a chance to speak to your family. To your loved ones. Right now. Talk to them, call them, write to them. You have no idea whether they will be around tomorrow — or you, for that matter.

Blender Fox

Some chronic speeders were, and found the result very difficult to handle.

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Training

Another early morning run today. No stopping during the four run intervals so that felt good :)

Training

Haven’t run for a while so picked up on my C25K training where I left off.

Maybe slower than previous, but made it most of the way — dropped to a walk early on run #4

Excessive Sleeping

I had my cousin and his girlfriend over here in the UK for a couple of days for his graduation ceremony — something, no-one mentioned in advance so I ended up having to take a couple of days out of the office and working from home. Several long days later, and my lack of sleep was catching up with me, along with the 30 deg C heat wasn’t helping. They booked out of Gatwick rather than heathrow, meaning the trip to the airport took 1.5 hours instead of 1 hour. And meant I pretty much did an entire lap of the M25 in the process (about 75 miles there and 75 miles back, though I drove 80 miles there instead because the M25 was closed one way, so I had to turn back).

They picked an early flight, which meant we had to try to get there for about 7am, meaning we had to leave at 5am, which in turn meant a 4am get up so they could shower, finish packing and get into the car.

I was back home by 8:15, even stopping off at my local supermarket to pick up some bottled water – although the supermarket wasn’t open due to it being a Sunday, so I picked it up from a local Tesco petrol station instead (15p more expensive than a Tesco supermarket)

I was pretty tired for most of the day, so did washing, ironing, and then went to bed at 6pm — yeah, never went to bed that early before, but here’s FitBit to prove it. 12 hours in bed, 9.5 hours asleep.

Also, during my cousins visit, I took him around different food places. Now I know people like food pictures (aka food porn), here’s a couple of the pics

Broadband Speeds

You may have known I really hate my broadband speeds. I’ve replaced the ADSL filters, the phone extension coil and the router, and was still getting barely 1Mb on a 4Mb connection from Sky.

The only cable I hadn’t yet replaced was the cable that went from my router to the extension coil. Without hoping for much, I spent £2 and got a “high quality” (always be careful with any listing that says that) so I decided to buy two while I was at it.

It arrived and I swapped out the cable. Then tested it.

Well….

The router claims connection speed as 7007 kbps down and 921 kbps up.

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