A long busy day at the office and we wet, windy, and miserable evening, so no running, but I did head out for a walk. I know from experience that slugs emerge after a wet spell, and I've on more than one occasion squished one unknowingly during a run, leaving a slimy mess when I made it back to the house.

No running today, but I did head out for a walk to get my dad some Valentines Day stuff (he was feeling under the weather but still want to get something for my mum)

Now it's just a matter of trying to sneak it into the house with my my mum knowing :-P

Day 2 on the C25K app and today's setup was the same as yesterday:

• 5 minutes walking warmup
• 60 seconds running
• 90 seconds walking
• repeat walk/run for 20 minutes (8 intervals)

GPS tracking was better since I allowed background tracking.

Leg was still slightly aching from yesterday, but I pushed through.

Decided to reinstall an old C25K app I used to use, and the first run was:

• 5 minutes walking warmup
• 60 seconds running
• 90 seconds walking
• repeat walk/run for 20 minutes (8 intervals)

GPS tracking was bad because I hadn't set it to allow background tracking. Will change that for the next run.

But now my leg is aching again. My lower back part of my right leg is hurting like it's about to spasm (it has done that before)

Went running again, and still having trouble lasting any reasonable distance. I might just revert doing a C25K plan again.

My calves were absolutely aching after two days of running, lack of exercise, then suddenly being pushed hard I guess would do that to you.

No running today, just walking, and I made it back just before it started raining.

Went out running again, did only 2.6 km this time, averaged just about 6m59s/km - a far cry from the 6m0s/k I used to be able to do last time.

At least that is now my goal -- to try to get to 5km, then try to get my speed to around the 6-minute mark.

My thighs are aching and my shoes do not feel like they're cushioning my steps as much as they used to. I guess I'll need to look at buying some new running shoes soon.

It's been a long, long time, but I've finally decided to pick up running again.

And BOY, am I out of shape. Could barely get to 2km before having to drop to a walk.

But now at least I have a baseline to improve upon.

And I forgot how good running feels after a good workout.

Missed logging from yesterday. I did my walk later than normal, as I had to pick up my dad from hospital after an operation.

England were playing in Wembley against Germany last night, though I am not much of a football fan and don't really follow matches.

I didn't even think England would beat Germany, based on their history.

On my way back from my walk, I came across a group of teenagers with England shirts on. They saw me and started singing "It's coming home" to me. I just looked blank and confused (being a chinese person, I guess they thought I couldn't understand them). One of them put their fist out for a fist bump. Now *that* I knew and met the bump before heading off.

England won 2-0 against Germany but you never would have guessed. Normally, when England score a goal or win a match, you hear massive cheering from the neighbours and then celebrations in the streets -- people driving their cars with the windows down screaming "En-ger-land!"

None of that this time.

I've been slacking a bit with logging my walks because it's been a bit monotonous -- not much happening during those runs, so I need to fix that.

Lots of rain today and heavy rain too. Eased up a bit so I got my walk done. Had to go in jeans and coat with a cap on as the temperature had dropped enough that t-shirt and shorts were not a recommended choice.

Cooler today, cloudy and a spattering of rain, but at 20degC still humid

I didn't do my walk yesterday since I was in the office again this week. I took the Victoria Line back from the office and two people seemingly had passed out -- one at Victoria, one at Oxford Circus. The heat was almost unbearable.

Oxford Circus is an oven even on normal days. At near 30degC heat it is more like a furnace.

There was immense relief in the evening when it started to rain, but that relief was soon turned in comfortable, sticky, sweaty feelings as the water then evaporated and made the air really humid, making it almost impossible to sleep. I didn't get any decent sleep till around 2am and FitBit noticed that with my sleep pattern.

Fortunately, it seems like there's rain forecast for the rest of the week at least.

Have been slacking off logging my exercise again, but there's a reason.

It's TOO. DAMN. HOT.

Like, crazy hot. And when the sun shines into your bedroom where you're trying to work so you have to have the curtains closed while you work, and the fan only provides some minor relief, it doesn't help

Meanwhile, today, my walk was comfortable -- even though it was hot, the breeze helped matters a bit and made it not feel too bad.

No walk today as I was back in the office for one day this week. With the 25degC heat, it was not a pleasant journey. I tried to offset it by using only the airconditioned trains route (Thameslink, Great Northern, District/Circle) but that didn't make it much more comfortable.

Still topped my step count for the day, as I normally do for the commute.

And we're back to hot weather again. No rain at all today and a nice day to walk

After several days of extremely hot weather, today was pretty much constantly raining.

Did go for a walk, but got caught in some (light) showers. Nothing major, fortunately.

My walk today was bit interrupted as my dad lost his driving license and Freedom Pass (memory + age are bit of a pain) but oh, well.

Another hot day on the trot, and yet another day without a cloud in the sky, although somehow it did seem to spatter with rain for short periods, I've been told (but I never noticed that happening)

Another hot day, with almost no clouds in the sky. Another day of angry drivers on the road too.

Found out why I couldn't backup my new machine -- Windows 10 had BitLocker setup which meant CloneZilla couldn't clone it. Ubuntu installation on computers running Windows and BitLocker turned on - Documentation - Ubuntu Community Hub told me how to remove it. But still had a few issues with the backing up, namely Clonezilla still reporting some filesystems being read-only.

Turns out Fast Startup was also enabled by default https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/213195423-How-To-Disable-Fast-Startup-in-Windows-10 for disabling it.

Trying to back up the machine before installing Ubuntu

Backup was fine, completed successfully, and was able to install Ubuntu

Benchmarked both Windows and Linux on 4K, and Linux performed a bit less, presumably due to the APIs being different

And it's been another hot day, and people have been really tetchy today, lots of horn tooting and then, inevitably, this happened

The heat really does bring out the worst in people.

I've been slacking logging my walks lately, so apologies for that.

This was should have been logged yesterday. It was very hot, so much that I didn't even need to worry about wearing a jacket or anything while walking, and perhaps I should have worn sunglasses, it was that bright.

In other news, my laptop seems like it's on its way out so I have got a replacement and an upgrade, and spent Saturday trying to set it up but clonezilla seems to be having trouble registering the partition labels. I had already purchased a 2TB NVME so instead of cloning then restoring, I cross-device cloned directly, making the 2TB disk exactly the same as the 1TB, but with the space at the end of the disk which I will use for Ubuntu.

Then took the rest of the day downloading my games from Steam. Warframe and Stellaris are the main ones I've been downloading

Streaming also seems fine, with only a slight fps drop.

Another wet day, but also very windy today, multiple bins had been blown over and I had to hold my hood from not being blown off my head in the wind -- haven't had to do that for a long while.

Rain started during the walk, nothing too heavy, mostly drizzle and made it back before it really turned heavy.

Delayed logging from yesterday. Another walk in between rainshowers. Made it back home before it totally pelted down with hailstones too.

Warmer day, but still rained, didn't get caught in any rain today during my walk, so that was good.