A TINY Month: October In Review
>> Monday, November 09, 2026
October was the WILDEST looking month I've had in a long time! Here's what it looked like:
• SWIM: 4,600 yards
• BIKE: 37.75 miles
• TRAINER: 5 hours and 26 minutes
• RUN: 70.27 miles
• STRENGTH: 35 hours and 23 minutes
These totals are mainly low from resting up post-vasectomy... even after I was allowed to run, I didn't want to sit on a bike seat, and I still was supposed to not "soak" it in a pool for an extra week as well (so only 2 late-month swims). My strength time was about HALF of what it was the month before!!
I started the month with a GOOD race at the TC 10 Mile. Then the day after the race, I had a vasectomy and had to make sure I healed up to go on a trip the following week. My first runs after the vasectomy were ROUGH - I mean, just look at all of that nothingness the week of the 5th (the yellow week). I finally had a hard run in the Faroe Islands, and some 2x2 intervals later that week. (But my right hammy was really acting up! That was noted by the purple on the 19th.) It was feeling a bit more like a normal week that week... but then I had a HARD fall to start the last week of the month, as in LIMPING for DAYS. I've never done anything like that before. I couldn't even do my normal leg strength work as it hurt too badly. For days. Even though I had to cut back strength work and skip a run on that final week of the month, it still ended up looking OK.
October had 518,137 steps which is the lowest in ALMOST 3 YEARS! December of 2023 had 515k steps, which was the most recent month to be lower than October!
Also, my "rewards" earned on the app "WeWard" show where I had little movement in October as well:
The week+ from Oct 3-11 I missed my steps goal, then picked it up as the month went on.
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