I've now been in my new job role for a month! Time has flown! I'm really enjoying being busy here in Oxford and getting some great exposure to all kinds of people in my new role.
I have been out cycling a few times around Gloucester now and found a couple of nice routes -see my Strava. The latest update is that my wife & I will be moving... again... somewhere more in the Cotswolds and closer to both our jobs as she is about to start a new role at the Four Pillars hotel in the Cotswolds Water Park (it's very posh!)
What's a bit more exciting is that I have found a group of 4 or 5 people who go running at lunch times here at Siemens. They are mostly all a lot quicker than me but tend to do a good 8km or so every lunch time. So far I have joined them twice but I am going to try and commit to going out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday - which will be a lot more running than I've ever done before!
We run either down a river path along the Thames or in some woods owned by Oxford Uni. I've never done any trail running and I didn't realise how brilliant it was. It's quiet, there's no traffic and lots of wildlife to look at to distract you from the pain in your legs! I have really enjoyed it so far and running with other people - especially people who are much quicker and more committed - is great! Really enjoying it.
The only annoying thing is that my Garmin seems to not pick up signal for the first 10 minutes or so and misses out the hardest hill of the run! Must be a few hundred feet of elevation and my heart is pounding by the top but I don't get any data recorded from it! Think I'm going to try with my phone next time and use RunKeeper and see if I can get the whole distance/elevation profile off of that - or try and set up my Garmin outside instead of in the changing room..
Hopefully I will see some improvements in distance, fitness and maybe even shed some weight! The group also does races at some points in the year so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into that.
My current schedule is looking like running in the weeks and getting some miles in on the bike on the weekend. This I am very happy with!
