Declan Byrd's Personal Site

One basketball session this week.

I had a very short working week this week, only working three days.

Pretty sure the deployment pipeline for this website is now broken.

Two evenings of basketball this week.

One basketball session this week.

I had one basketball session this week.

Content warning: blood donation, needles.

I played lots of Horizon Forbidden West this week.

No basketball this week as the school sports halls were being used for exams.

Completed my first 10km run this morning!

Only one basketball session this week.

I had two basketball sessions this week.

Over the last 21 weeks I've been following a Garmin Coach 5km running plan in an attempt to run 5km in under 30 minutes.

I had two basketball sessions this week.

I completed three runs this week.

For most of this week (and some of last week), I was in Rethymno in Crete on holiday.

Notes this week are intentionally short and only cover the first few days of the week.

Monday was a bank holiday so I had a four day working week this week.

I completed 4 runs this week.

Only three completed runs this week.

Another four runs completed this week.

Very similar running schedule to last week including two shorter runs and one longer run.

Continuing to enforce the habit of running four times a week, by completing all four runs again this week.

On Monday, Becka and I went to see Cat Burns perform an acoustic set at Chalk in Brighton.

Only one basketball session this week.

For a while now orange stains had started appearing on my white t-shirts after I'd put them in the washing machine.

I completed four runs this week.

Unlike recent weeks, I only managed three runs this week.

I managed to complete another four runs this week.

Another four runs this week.

After not managing to run last week, I completed three runs this week using the 5k training plan from the Garmin coach function on my watch.

I started playing Horizon Forbidden West on the PlayStation 5 this week.

I managed a lot of reading this week.

I only managed one run this week.

Monday was a public holiday in the UK, so a shorter work week this week.

I was in London at the start of this week with Becka to celebrate her birthday.

I was in Tallinn (Estonia) this week to visit my work colleagues.

On Tuesday I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White, losing 69-56 against Worthing D&D Black.

On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Eastbourne Neptunes.

Monday was a public holiday in the UK, so I used the additional day off work to finish the main story in Horizon Zero Dawn on the PlayStation.

A short work week this week, only working three days.

In my 2024 to-do list post I noted that I wanted to be able to change the colour theme to something other than a dark or light theme.

Added a new snippet to my VS Code snippets file today so that I can add an ISO 8601 date and time to the front-matter of my markdown files after I've finished writing. { "postDate": { "prefix": "now", "body": [ "$CURRENT_YEAR-$CURRENT_MONT…

No basketball for me this week.

When I first started playing basketball I didn't think about my footwear.

On Tuesday, I had a basketball game for Worthing D&D White against Horsham Hawks where we lost 72-86.

I first starting using Eleventy to build this site back in 2020 using version 0.10.0 and through a combination of the official documentation and other people's source code on GitHub, I managed to piece together the foundations for this site.

More Horizon Zero Dawn on the PlayStation this week.

Not much of note this week, so the notes are a bit brief.

No basketball for me this week, as the schools are using the sports halls for exams.