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Meta
I failed to post an update for May. This was kind of understandable, given that I was right in the middle of recovering from surgery at that point, but I have done quite badly against my other goals in the last couple of months, and I suspect that not having the check-in with myself is a significant contributing factor. In future if there's something happening that's going to make it difficult to update promptly at the end of the month I should either do so early or make some kind of plan to make sure it still happens. I have continued to avoid taking on major new commitments, although I think I have probably filled my copious free time several times over with things that I am intending to do after the wedding, so when that actually happens I shall have to have a think and a prioritise. I'm still finding todoist pretty useful, but there have been points, particularly in the "I'm mostly back to normal, certainly enough to be trying to do all the usual stuff, but actually having quite a bit less energy than I'm used to" phase of recovery. I think that I'm now mostly out of that stage, and I've also had a fairly ruthless prune of postponing things that aren't urgent until after the wedding.
Finances
Okay, yeah, this has gone completely off the rails, partly because I budgeted for May on the assumption that I'd be spending a significant part of it in bed, and actually I was up and about much quicker than expected, but mostly because I didn't make a budget for June at all, and then somehow ended up spending more than twice as much as what my monthly budget should have been. I'm going to do a seperate and more detailed analysis of my spending for the year to date and replan the rest of it. It's definitely not going to be realistic to hit my original target from this stage, but I need to think about what would be realisitc.
Faith and Church
I'm doing reasonably well with the community stuff, and St John's singers is continuing to flourish, but I've been very undisciplined about private prayer recently, so I think that's something I need to focus on in July.
Health
Well, there was this whole surgery thing, so unsurprisingly I didn't do much running in May and June - 80 and 47 miles respectively, bringing me to a total of 596 for the year, but that still leaves me well ahead of target for the year. I'm increasing my mileage again now, but I'm still wearing a dressing on my arm where the skin graft was, and that makes it a bit faffy, because once it gets sweaty I want to change it, and that adds a fair bit of time to how long it takes to run. I'm aiming to get to the point where I only need to run 50 miles/month to meet my 1000 mile target, and at that point drop down to only running once a week, and start working on my strength goals. I had been thinking about trying to do that by the end of July, but that would mean 154 miles, and the most I've done so far this year is 128 in April, so perhaps that's a bit ambitious and I should go for 125 instead.
I did manage a sub-20 minute 5k the day before my surgery, which wasn't one of my official goals, but is something I'm quite pleased about. I'd like to get back up to that level if possible before I cut back on running, but I won't be distraught if I don't manage it.
Hobbies
Again, quite a lot of this went on the back burner post surgery, and I'm now making the executive decision to stop prioritising it until after the wedding. I've got plenty of fun stuff in the diary, so it's not as though I'm going to become an automaton who does nothing but work and wedding-plan, but that's where I need my executive function to be, so hobby stuff is only going to happen if it does so naturally.
Meta
I failed to post an update for May. This was kind of understandable, given that I was right in the middle of recovering from surgery at that point, but I have done quite badly against my other goals in the last couple of months, and I suspect that not having the check-in with myself is a significant contributing factor. In future if there's something happening that's going to make it difficult to update promptly at the end of the month I should either do so early or make some kind of plan to make sure it still happens. I have continued to avoid taking on major new commitments, although I think I have probably filled my copious free time several times over with things that I am intending to do after the wedding, so when that actually happens I shall have to have a think and a prioritise. I'm still finding todoist pretty useful, but there have been points, particularly in the "I'm mostly back to normal, certainly enough to be trying to do all the usual stuff, but actually having quite a bit less energy than I'm used to" phase of recovery. I think that I'm now mostly out of that stage, and I've also had a fairly ruthless prune of postponing things that aren't urgent until after the wedding.
Finances
Okay, yeah, this has gone completely off the rails, partly because I budgeted for May on the assumption that I'd be spending a significant part of it in bed, and actually I was up and about much quicker than expected, but mostly because I didn't make a budget for June at all, and then somehow ended up spending more than twice as much as what my monthly budget should have been. I'm going to do a seperate and more detailed analysis of my spending for the year to date and replan the rest of it. It's definitely not going to be realistic to hit my original target from this stage, but I need to think about what would be realisitc.
Faith and Church
I'm doing reasonably well with the community stuff, and St John's singers is continuing to flourish, but I've been very undisciplined about private prayer recently, so I think that's something I need to focus on in July.
Health
Well, there was this whole surgery thing, so unsurprisingly I didn't do much running in May and June - 80 and 47 miles respectively, bringing me to a total of 596 for the year, but that still leaves me well ahead of target for the year. I'm increasing my mileage again now, but I'm still wearing a dressing on my arm where the skin graft was, and that makes it a bit faffy, because once it gets sweaty I want to change it, and that adds a fair bit of time to how long it takes to run. I'm aiming to get to the point where I only need to run 50 miles/month to meet my 1000 mile target, and at that point drop down to only running once a week, and start working on my strength goals. I had been thinking about trying to do that by the end of July, but that would mean 154 miles, and the most I've done so far this year is 128 in April, so perhaps that's a bit ambitious and I should go for 125 instead.
I did manage a sub-20 minute 5k the day before my surgery, which wasn't one of my official goals, but is something I'm quite pleased about. I'd like to get back up to that level if possible before I cut back on running, but I won't be distraught if I don't manage it.
Hobbies
Again, quite a lot of this went on the back burner post surgery, and I'm now making the executive decision to stop prioritising it until after the wedding. I've got plenty of fun stuff in the diary, so it's not as though I'm going to become an automaton who does nothing but work and wedding-plan, but that's where I need my executive function to be, so hobby stuff is only going to happen if it does so naturally.
