Declutter: Recycling center

Taken all of the large junk to the recycling centre ✓

That takes care of the old CRT monitor, the bike frame, the broken applicances, and the broken grater. That's not perfect, but everything that's especially difficult to throw away is gone.

The recycling centre is cool. It's surprisingly efficient with people squirrelling away all sorts of stuff. I wish there was actually designated parking though: the protocol seems to be "drive up to the bin you want and park directly outside and hope other people can still get past". I'm always too nervous that I'll be in the way and end up circling all the way round in the hope of parking somewhere out of the way. Although if it's safe to park behind the bins on the way out, it's actually a lot easier because you can just walk through to the front.

Gym: Treadmill for half an hour

I went to the gym, fulfilling my "twice weekly" resolution on the last two days of the week. I did the treadmill for half an hour: 5 minutes walking, then 25 minutes alternating walking (5.3km/h or 3.3mi/hr) for a minute and jogging for a minute (7.8 km/hr or 4.8mi/hr).

I felt really good. I was bathed in sweat, and felt like I'd had a really good workout, but my legs didn't hurt, and I didn't feel ready to collapse afterwards.

I felt really pleased at being able to do half an hour, even though that was alternating walking and jogging, because a month ago I'm not sure I could have quite done it. So I really have got better (a little bit). And I've got up to a time that's reasonable for a gym session, so I don't need to worry about that as much, and can concentrate on increase speed or proportion of jogging.

I wasn't sure in advance I'd do half an hour. Last time I went up from 20min to 22 min, and I didn't want to promise myself too much and renege, so I said I'd do the same again since it'd been a week since I'd done it. But after 22 minutes I felt fine to continue so I reset the machine and did another 8. Yay me!

I couldn't have done much more, though. I tried to continue the penultimate set, and started to feel "I can't breathe, I want to throw up" quite soon, so I went back to walking until the final set. But I can hopefully increase the proportion a bit, going to 65 s jogging, 55 s walking, etc.