Week note — week commencing Monday 16 March 2026
A week that split cleanly in two: three working days, Bradford Digital's Tech Tuesday among them, then a long weekend in wonderful Seville with Kristin. More on Seville separately.
Health and body
Keeping an eye on blood pressure, which is now a regular part of the routine. Diabetes nurse on Monday — more on that next week.
Weight holding steady at 87.5kg. Food was sensible enough even with the trip away.
Running
Four runs, 29.61km. Monday didn't happen and Sunday, with the journey home, wasn't realistic.
The four that did happen were solid: 7.85km on Tuesday, 8.65km on Wednesday, 5.01km in Seville on Friday, and 8.1km on Saturday. Two of those were along the Guadalquivir — there are few better ways to get to know a city than running along its river.
Year to date: 321.93km.
To hit 170km for March I need 65.51km across the remaining 9 days — about 7.3km a day. Doable.
Getting out
Over 15km of walking across the week. Felt like it should have been more given how much ground we covered in Seville, but 15km is still a decent return.
Long weekend in Seville with Kristin — the best time with the bestie. I'll be eating tomatoes, cheese and cured meats on bread for the first week back home, obvs. The trip will get its own note.
Work-y
Two and a half days of NHS work, plus Bradford Digital's Tech Tuesday on Tuesday afternoon — the tenth event in the series, part of UK Tech Week. I was one of the sponsors through Office of Wilson, which felt like the right thing to do. Wrote it up separately.
On the NHS side: started the week with some opportunity mapping — revisiting and refining it with the team across Monday and Tuesday morning. We had a delve into the technical shape of things too.
Local involvement is essential if the work moves forward after this month, so spent some time with people in NHS Midlands. Nice to get a little prototype work in as well. And a deeper dive into gov platforms with the ever-generous people at GDS.
The discovery is in its final weeks and the shape of things is becoming clearer.
House and home
Another window ordered — the list of jobs is long but the direction is good.
In the garden, pea shoots are coming through and Kristin's carefully nurtured seeds are growing well on the inside.
Mind and culture
Page 151 of Chief Engineer — about 35% of the way through. Plane journeys are earning their keep as reading time.
Enjoyed the Brothers Macklovitch's guest mix on Beats in Space episode 195. Chromeo doing what Chromeo do.
Sunday night: started series two of Last One Laughing. Good to have something easy and funny to come home to.
This week
Diabetes nurse on Monday. Running target of 40–50km — some recalibrating after a lighter week. A gym session that is definitely happening this time. Trying to culture myself at home — the cheap and cheerful version.
tldr
Bradford Digital, a blog post out the door, focused discovery work, four solid runs, and then wonderful Seville. A week of two halves, both good.