It was fun today remembering my visit to China and a great time visiting the hutongs on a bicycle tour. Checking the links, however, gave me a very odd surprise. The old URL of Chinese Culture Club, which organised the tour, is now being squatted. Nothing particularly odd in that. But it is being...

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My journal reminded me that I started doing 7-minute high-intensity interval training yesterday two years ago. After looking around a bit, I chose the Johnson & Johnson app to guide me, and although I toyed with customising routines, I quickly gave up and just stuck with the programme. I do remember the thrill as I went up from 7 minutes to 15 to 24 and even more so as I did my first push-up and rotation on the floor rather than on the edge of the table. The lockdown provided a huge motivational boost to get me though the days of no walking in the park. Now I’m happy doing three sessions a week, M-W-F, alternating between the 2-cycle moderate set and the 3-cycle cardio set.

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The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource, one that I am happy to support whenever I can, precisely because it allows me to find copies of things that have vanished from the actual internet. To make life even easier, there is an official extension from The Internet Archive that makes saving and f...

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I bagged another geohash yesterday. All it took was rescheduling and redirecting my normal walk, because the target location was just over 5 km from my home. How often does that happen? I wrote it up on the wiki, to the best of my ability, but adhering to IndieWeb principles I’m hosting my own suitably edited version here.

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Today I did some high intensity interval training for the first time since 22 July. First there was some very minor surgery, then a wonderful couple of weeks in the countryside where I swam every day instead. So, after a gap of 46 days, it was time to get going again.

And it was tough.

I got thr...

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