Berlin

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June 2024 was interesting with a week’s holiday and a continuation of FulGaz’s challenge over the course of the year, the FulGaz Ironman Sprint Series which I had started a couple of months ago.

The holiday was our first long distance trip on the BMW R 1250 RT taking it back to its birthplace at the Berlin factory (and a couple of nights binging at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski.  Sadly the main gym was being refurbished so the temporary one was less than brilliant; all a matter of timing.

Then home to celebrate Fathers’ Day … and two weeks of diarrhoea (and counting) thanks to some food poisoning ℅ the Ball & Wicket (hence the full week gap whilst I was unable to do anything much at all).

Anyway, here are June’s stats:

June 2024 Stats

June 2024 Stats

Activities: 25 Distance: 301.38 km Time: 16:33:55 Calories:  12,432

Turning to my weight, at the end of May I weighed 83.4kg and at the end of June I weighed 81.9kg, which is down 1.5kg.  During That Week, I managed to lose 3.1kg and spent a lot of time on the toilet…

Just for the sake of it, here are my running stats for 2015 (and indeed from 2012, all in kilometres). Here’s to more mileage in 2016!

2015 includes the Winter Run 10k, the Milton Keynes Half Marathon and the Berlin Marathon.

Fetcheveryone Stats

Fetcheveryone Stats

Then of course there’s my weight: 88.7kg on 3 January 2015 and 90kg on 3 January 2016. Ah… I hit a low of 84.1kg on 26 March 2015, but I gained 3kg in December 2015 alone! Must. Try. Harder.

So I ran my first marathon on 27 September 2015: the 42nd Berlin Marathon. Despite having done very little real preparation – you can see my running diary in earlier entries – I finished it in 5 hrs 27 minutes and 23 seconds. This time was engraved on the back of my medal which also shows the world record time set last year, just to rub it in! Anyway, here’s some video of me finishing as well as some of the photos on the course: