Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-ninth year on Earth. In the last year, I have: * come 2nd place in the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 50km * visited Vuurtoreneiland for Sanne's birthday * been to
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* 5km: 17:00 (3:24 min/km) * 10km: 36:00 (3:36 min/km) ✅ * Half marathon: 1:20:00 (3:47 min/km) * Marathon: 2:45:00 (3:55 min/km)
Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-eighth year on Earth. In the last year, I have: * spent Christmas + New Year in the Netherlands * been to Spain * received a Netherlands residency permit * moved to an apartment
* 5km: 18:30 (3:42 min/km) → ✅ 17:44 (3:33 min/km) * 10km: 39:00 (3:54 min/km) → ✅ 36:55 (3:42 min/km) * Half marathon: 1:25:00 (4:02 min/km) → ✅ 1:21:30 (3:52 min/km) * Marathon: 2:59:59 (4:16 min/km)
Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-seventh year on Earth. In the last year, I have: * lived in numerous countries and apartments * ran Ashby 20 (miles) in March * ran 31km for Sanne's birthday in
A clone of my targets for 2020 because I haven't achieved them yet. * 5km: 18:30 (3:42 min/km) * 10km: 39:00 (3:54 min/km) * Half marathon: 1:25:00 (4:02 min/km) * Marathon: 2:59:59 (4:16 min/km)
Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third [https://daniellockyer.com/twenty-three/], twenty-fourth [https://daniellockyer.com/twenty-four/] and twenty-fifth [https://daniellockyer.com/twenty-five/] birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-sixth year on Earth. In the last year, I have: * lived in York, UK for 1 year * ran a
It's been long since I did this run and I originally wrote the bulk of this post in the week after, but recovery was tough and I lost the drive to continue writing after a couple of weeks. Having looked at this draft every time I log in,
I've previously written my year-in-review for my twenty-third [https://daniellockyer.com/twenty-three] and twenty-fourth [https://daniellockyer.com/twenty-four/] birthdays. And now for another! As well all know, this year has been a weird one. Things didn't go as expected for many but I've tried
I was recently adding a bunch of files to a new Git repo, but I couldn't be sure if I was about to commit a 100MB file. The following bash command should print out a sorted list of unstaged files and their size, so you can check if
Towards the end of March, my uncle sent our triathlon group a challenge he was thinking of doing; dubbed the "1000 challenge". There weren't any specifics and I assumed he was talking about 1000km of cycling. I called him later that day to ask him about
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I recently managed to get a 4iiii Precision left-only crank power meter. I fitted it and did a 40 minute indoor session. I have a dumb trainer, but I've found the power curve online. It was showing that I could expect ~200W for 30km/h on a certain
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I spent most of 2017 and 2018 running with little structure or knowledge of pacing. When I first started, I kept trying to PB my 5km time literally every single run. A lot of my time was spent injured from ramping up too quickly, and running too quickly. I bought
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As of October 31st 2019, my current running PBs are the following: * 5km: 19:49 (3:58 min/km - November 2018) * 10km: 42:13 (4:13 min/km - October 2019) * Half marathon: 1:30:17 (4:17 min/km - October 2019) * Marathon (unofficial): 3:39:46 (5:
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Last year I wrote a year-in-review for my twenty-third [https://daniellockyer.com/twenty-three] birthday. And now it's time for another! In the last year, I have: * visited Chiang Mai - Here for my birthday last year, until just after NYD. Came back here during summer to regain fitness
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I've been using GitHub Actions more and more across the projects I maintain. It's a great offering and integrates well into GitHub. There are a few Rust projects I have where I wanted to automate the publishing of prebuilt binaries to the GitHub releases page. I&
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If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter you may have noticed I'm a huge fan of flamegraphs. I've previously written about how I use them to profile PHP [https://daniellockyer.com/php-flame-graphs/] and Node.js [https://daniellockyer.com/profiling-nodejs/] applications, and I help
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I was recently setting up some CI on GitHub Actions and ran across double builds for pull requests. The official documentation is still a bit lacking and it's a problem because it burns 2x the credits. In the end, I made this diff: -on: [push, pull_request] +on:
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Race Information * Name: ULTRALONDON 55km * Date: October 5th 2019 * Distance: 55km * Location: London, England * Website: https://www.ultralondon.co.uk/ * Time: 5:27:30 (about 6 min/km) Goals * A - Finish: Yes * B - Sub 6: Yes * C - Sub 5:30: Yes Splits * 27.50km: 2:24:17
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Last October I made Upgrade your PHP [https://upgradeyourphp.com/], a site to let people know that PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 were about to reach their End of Life, and would no longer be officially supported. In the time since, I've been helping people upgrade