The square mile in London is deserted at the weekend (despite presumably most of the offices having some occupants). I’d say this is more about businesses having to adapt to what people want rather than forcing people to behave in certain ways.
Anecdata: I work at a uk startup and quite a lot of our product development has been funded by HMG. It’s worked really well for helping us work through technical challenges and has enabled us to reach product/market fit for our key products.
This article is a bit of a non sequitur. I generally agree with the points raised but the real problem is whether documentation is given enough time within the development cycle. In my experience it isn’t.
The point of documentation is to communicate to others how to keep developing a code base - what is does, how it does it etc. What form the documentation takes can be fluid, a full fledged wiki or a single readme.md file can fulfill the same role just as well! Some documentation is better than nothing, so start small and then improve it over time.
Checklists are useful for breaking a task down and providing incremental steps to progress through.
During my PhD I would write down what specific task I was working on in a work journal every half hour or so and it would help me refine the specific problem/question I was working on. At the end of the day I would have made a steady progression through a relatively abstract problem which might not have been apparent at the beginning.
I take the same approach with working on the various projects now as a software engineer. I find the act of documenting my progress/thoughts as I go extremely calming. There’s a balance to be struck here - I only take this approach when developing something new and I have to record all the things which didn’t work.
Can’t speak to that person’s routine, but really depends on what your goals are.
I have no time goals or plans for an oraganized race. I just like to be in shape enough to do 30+ mile efforts about once a month w/ a 20-25 mile long run once a week and keep that up without injury.
My training is pretty simple.
I do 10 miles 2-3x a week. Mostly on flat roads but ending up at a nearby trail that has ~1,000 feet of climbing over 1.7 miles. My speed on the uphill section varies pretty wildly but by feel each effort feels nearly identical, tiring but by the time I finish I’m nowhere near exhausted. Average time for this route is probably 2 hours and 5 minutes (I did it 110 times last year).
On my long run day I try for around 20 miles with 2,000 - 3,000 feet of climbing. Sometimes instead of that, I’ll do a tougher 12-15 mile route with a similar amount of elevation. Again my goal is low to medium intensity with enough left over for another run the next day. My average pace here might be 12-15 minute miles.
I always run the day after the long run, usually 7-12 miles either flat or my 10 mile route described above. Just going off feel and what I’m capable of.
About once a week I do some kind of short fast intervals just because I like it. Something like 3x2 mile at a pretty fast pace (for me), like 8:15 per mile. Or 4 x 5 minutes at a little faster pace. Super easy jogs between intervals.
That usually adds up to 40-50 miles a week. I’ll drop down to 30-35 if I want a break.
When I’m at my “peak” fitness, I have no problem stretching the 20 mile long run to 30 or so. But it does take a little more recovery than I like and the risk of injury does seem to go up a bit.
My goal is healthy long distance running for decades so low intensity relaxed running is key for me.
Thanks for sharing your routine. I’ve been navigating the realms of long distance running for a few years and I’ve not been able to strike the balance between injury and effort so far. I’m aspiring to do an ultra next year (have done 35m previously but injured) and I’m seeking a routine/rhythm where I can crack that out without injuring myself. Thanks for your considered response!
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