Still no hot water. The “trace and access” people came round on Friday, and confirmed that it’s leaking from below where the pipe comes up out of the floor under the sink (every time I turn the water back on the leak gets stronger!). Also as suspected, the fix (not covered by insurance) will be to get a plumber to run a new pipe and cap off the one that goes under the concrete. Drying everything out fully and reinstating it would be covered by insurance, but would involve ripping up the floor tiles and removing half the kitchen units and worktop. I can’t face the disruption of going through all that, so I’m going to opt for just running a dehumidifier for a while then getting the plaster and skirting boards sorted later.
I still haven’t ridden my new bike yet either – my new shoes and road cleats arrived on Friday, just in time for the wet weather to set in.
Tuesday’s club session involved lots of short flat-out sprint efforts (probably good as I generally don’t do enough anaerobic training). Strava decided to troll me with this summary afterwards:
I didn’t cycle there this week, which was a relief because of both the wind and the state of my legs afterwards.
We ran another unconference at work on Wednesday, with some interesting conversations around stuff like monoliths vs microservices and “how much testing is too much?” (probably more than you’re doing).
A second consecutive training night on Wednesday, with the monthly track session returning after a hiatus during Friday 5 season. It was “broken kilometres”, with sets of 1×400m, 2×200m and 4×100m efforts, with 30s static recovery between each effort. During the final all-out 100m effort I just about managed, for a few seconds, to reach Kipchoge’s average marathon pace!
Last Friday race for a while, with the Twilight 10k. It’s not the greatest of courses (several 180° turns round cones), but it’s nice to race through the town centre. A record turnout this year too, with over 1300 finishers (a bit big for my taste). I guess that makes my 211th place reasonably respectable, even if I continue to get slower year by year!
I made the mistake of watching Fall, as it was on iPlayer. It does a reasonable job of building tension, but hardly anything that happens makes any sense. I can’t decide whether they just didn’t bother talking to anyone with a basic knowledge of how climbing equipment (or physics) works, or whether they knew it was nonsense but felt that injecting any degree of realism would spoil the plot in some way.
Speaking of iPlayer, I’ve also started watching the US version of Ghosts. So far it looks as though it might live up to the original, which is no mean feat.
I remembered something else that happened, then immediately forgot again. Clearly getting old.