Up early-ish this morning for my long run – it’ll be the shortest of my long runs, just 4 miles (6.5 km). There was quite a strong headwind, which I was able to avoid until the final 2km – running up through the Pen Ponds on gravel. Probably not my best choice, but what can you do. […]
Running log for Spring/Summer 2020 half marathon training program. See training plan. Date Distance Pace/km Feeling 19th May 4.8km 6:08 Sluggish 20th May 4.8km 5:45 Sweaty, determined 21st May 4.8km 5:31 Sunny run in the shade 23rd May 6.5km 5:37 Regretted the uphill finish into a headwind 26th May 4.8km 5:24 Fast and free (on […]
Today was a good day, though I’m not entirely sure that I could summarise what I learned. But I guess I should try. SwiftUI uses structs rather than classes and that seems to make for a huge performance benefit. That’s good. There are loads of modifiers available to use for views and the order that […]
The nature of the course has definitely changed, moving into a more practical approach. The days don’t seem to be equally weighted – the introduction day is quite light in material and actions. The app and challenge day is action oriented and more intense with quite a light wrap-up day to cement the knowledge. That said, […]
Another day, another 3 mile (4.8k) training run today. We’re still experiencing a London heatwave so my midday run was in the sun and about 25°C. I managed to find tree cover for much of the cross-country run and had a little fun exploring some trails that I hadn’t run on before. That’s getting harder […]
Two days into the half marathon training plan (3 if you count Monday’s rest day) and I’m off to a good start. Back to back 3 mile (4.8km) runs have gone off without a hitch. London is having a bit of a UK heatwave with temperatures hitting the mid 20s so it is a bit […]
It’s not quite 100 days, but a 12-week half marathon training regimen is close enough. I’ve started the Hal Higdon Novice 2 half marathon training program to help give my fitness a boost. I’ve been running off and on during the COVID-19 lockdown period and have generally been enjoying it, but I’ve been running without […]
I’m quite happy that things are finally real now. The first challenge was to build upon what we learned in Day 18 with the WeSplit app and build our own conversion app. I chose to create a Simple Converter app that takes a value from the user along with a unit (kg, lbs, st) and […]
Finally. After two weeks of fundamentals, review and preparation, I finally got started with writing some code after completing four lessons today. Granted it was for the fairly straightforward WeSplit app which simply performs a few calculations, but nevertheless, it felt good. Before taking this course I had completed Apple’s SwiftUI tutorials – I really enjoyed […]
Another consolidation day done – I’m liking these. While I’m missing writing code and learning new concepts, I’m sure that I’ll be back into that quite soon. For now, it’s just nice to have some cementing of knowledge happening. Something that I previously found a bit confusing but makes sense now – and that (instructor) Paul refers […]