12 Aug 2024
I’m starting off a somewhat niche series of posts over the next 10 week charting my progress and experience training for the Oxford Half Marathon on 13th October. My current PB set last September is 1:32:00 and I am hoping to run 1:27:00 or faster in Oxford.
30 Jul 2024
I set a target this year to read at least one fiction book every month. I’ve always had a love of sinking into a good story in written form, so I knew the only thing that would slow me down in this challenge was finding the books.
6 Jun 2024
At Arena Online, our plan this year is to begin migrating our existing legacy codebase off Rails 3 and into a modern Rails 7 app; simultaneously shedding over a decade’s worth of technical debt.
22 Apr 2024
One of the many reasons I love running is its track-ability. There’s a tongue-in-cheek saying in the fitness world, “If it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen”. But like any hobby, you can choose how much you involve stats in it. Running can be a joyfully simple and analogue activity. Conversely, you can track any and every metric from your distance down to your running mechanics. I land in the second camp, perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly.
20 Mar 2024
I like to have a handle on my spending. I track pretty meticulously what I spend personally and as a family. I’ve previously talked about how to master your spending habits, where I delved into how I track what I spend, what I spend and how I analyse it.
22 Feb 2024
It's been a belated setting of goals this year, as we near the end of February. 2024's goals are not dissimilar to last year's in all honesty, and I'm OK with that. Goals are an evolution that don't start and end within a calendar year. So after a relatively successful 2023 on the goal-front, let's get at it in 2024.
19 Feb 2024
As I approach my fourth year of journalling, and in my third year of consistently blogging again, I had a realisation. You cannot write too much stuff down.
16 Jan 2024
Another year, another year in review post! In many ways, this year has been a good one. Fit and healthy, a loving family, some personal goals hit. What more could you want?
7 Jan 2024
My primary goal of 2023 was to start the 5x5 workout program: 5 exercises total, 3 workouts a week, consisting of 3 out of the 5 exercises (alternating with each workout). I had aspirations to create a modest home gym setup in my garage since moving into my current house at the end of 2020. In the autumn of 2023, I finally decided on some gym equipment and eagerly began my 5x5 journey.
27 Dec 2023
At the beginning of the year, I set myself a vague target: prioritise sleep. After a couple of early check-ins in February and April on my blog, I gradually settled into my new nighttime routine. I stuck with my target of recording my bedtime, attempting with earnest to go to bed earlier.