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Category
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2010
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2011
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What happened dude?
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Train (miles)
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5,125
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4,878
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Only a small drop despite a much shorter commute. Helped by some long distance train travel
to far flung cities. Like London and
Manchester.
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Driving (miles)
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8,000
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9,507
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One of 2011’s resolutions was to keep the driving to a minimum. So it looks like that totally didn’t
work. But there are a large number of
work miles in there (c2,000), which are fairly unavoidable.
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Walking (miles)
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-
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407
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First year tracking this one.
Equates to over one mile a day, which was my target.
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Swimming (lengths)
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-
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418 lengths
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Equivalent to just over 10,000 metres. Not good enough. Got very lazy in second half of the year.
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Cycling (miles)
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-
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161
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Not bad, but was aiming for 365.
Took me a while to sort out punctures etc at start of the year.
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Running (miles)
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-
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9
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Gotta get to grips with the fact that I’m not a runner. I just don’t enjoy it. Not even gonna bother measuring it in 2012.
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Flying (miles)
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1,286
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26,297
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Well, flying halfway round the world to New Zealand and then back
again meant this was always gonna be a big number in 2011!
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Nights away
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80
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104
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That’s right. About 3½ months
spent not sleeping in my own bed, thanks to muchos holidays and loads of
weekends away.
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Films
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43
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62
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Wow, 44% more films than last year.
Suggests I am becoming more of a couch potato. Not sure this is a good thing.
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Books
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30
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24
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Less books, but more pages overall (8,431 against 7,722 in
2010). Reflects getting through a load
of the heavy stuff that’s been sitting on my shelves for years and not simply
going through PG Wodehouse!
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Charity
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£70
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£145
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Much better, but still not the 1% of net income I’m aiming for. I said last year I would find a charity a
month to give money too and obviously promptly forgot all about it. I will do that this year.
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And what would life be without some crazy predictions for the year ahead:
- Train travel up due to travelling to London more often by train
- Driving down due to looking for, applying and getting new job that involves less driving.
- Walking, swimming and cycling all to be up. I am determined to spend more time outside exercising and to stop the ever-expanding waistline in its tracks.
- Flying: way, way down. If only I could afford to do New Zealand two years running...
- Nights away - down to about 80 due to moving closer to friends and so spending less weekends away from home.
- Films and books - both will stay pretty much the same. Aiming to end the year with no more than two unread books on the shelves.
- Charity - aiming for 1% of net income. Quick fag packet calculation suggests I managed 0.6% in 2011. Not great, but better than the c0.35% in 2010.
And finally, five aims for 2012:
- Properly stop biting my nails. Not even a nibble.
- Either (i) get job in London, or (ii) failing that, quit current job and travel.
- Save further £5,000 towards house deposit (less likely to be achieved in conjunction with Option 2 above).
- Blog more. At least once a month.
- Start some sort of further education. Either history, international relations or something environmental.
Sounds good? It's so easy to write them down. Pretty scary having to actually do some of them though.
Wish me luck.
