Jamie

A photo of a crowd of runners under a "You are all heroes!" sign. The background is sunny Ibiza.

And we're all here! Now to sleep! Somehow!!

Before, during, and after!!!

Woo! I just wanna start at this point, haha.

Thanks!!

Thank you! Same! I've been able to eat a lot so hopefully that will help, but you never know.

Kit check done! Safety briefing in 10 minutes. Then buffet dinner to hopefully adequately fuel and I'm expecting an early night where I can't sleep at all. Then, 60km tomorrow!

Similarly my back has been unhappy by all the flying lately, but I am hoping some stretching tonight will help.

I almost fell over a couple days ago and ever since my ankle has been giving me a slight niggle and I know it's because I'm running 100km this weekend, and I know it's made worse by the UK cold. So here's hoping it's mostly pre-race anxiety and it'll be fine once it's warmed up.

I recently had a discussion with someone about how the mineral content differences in water in London and Tokyo affects the flavour profiles of espresso, and why roast profiles should be different to account for it.

Excited to head somewhere warm after walking across London at 7am. It's definitely big coat weather!

Hahaha. Yes, you see the main thing I want from an investment is for 1-2% of it to evaporate every year.

Packing for another trip and I still always feel like I'm forgetting something.

I feel like over the past few days I've seen loads of stuff online about how investors are running to gold and how stocks are unsafe, and now gold has dropped massively in price. I remain forever suspicious of investment advice I see online.

In addition to everything else going on, I still need to decide on a tattoo idea for this free tattoo I won in January. Forever screaming "what do I like?" at myself doesn't seem to be helping.

Remembering that liquid calories require water and therefore aid stations and therefore are limited in number across the course of each day. That helps with the maths somewhat.

I have a very good note from my last multi-stage about what to bring as fuel, but not how much of it to consume. I found a mix of liquid and solid calories worked, but I can't remember if I did both every hour (so 400 calories) or if I went back and forth each hour (so 200 calories).

One of the worst parts of an ultra is packing for the ultra. (Guess what I'm currently doing.) How much fuel do I need????

Hard to really show but it's a lot of texture down the sides rather than a buzzcut, while still long at the back.

The announcements refer to each station in Japanese, then in English by name and by number! So if you know the number of the station you're going to, you can know how many stops away you are as it slowly counts down or up to the number. It's super easy! Don't let language stop you from visiting!!

To visit? You don't need to know anything. Google translate works with photos, so you just take a picture of any text and it'll translate. All the public transport has both English and Japanese. It would be good to speak a little! I don't and that was a struggle at some places, but you get by.

As a Brit in London, American friends will always eventually try and show us proper s'mores but would then realise it's impossible to buy Graham crackers here.

Got a haircut ahead of Ibiza. Trying out a "gentle mullet" so at least I'll look cool while struggle shuffling my way through 100km.

8th!! Wow. When I rented I purposely didn't own much stuff, but even then I didn't move around that often. Now I have furniture to deal with, and even though I have a finance degree the whole "chain" thing in the UK is really confusing. Trying to figure out all the overlapping timelines and stuff.

@hankgreen.bsky.social Do plant life and animal life share any common ancestors? Do they come from the same thing?

I keep thinking about moving and the whole process is so draining (and I'm not even doing it for basically another year).

I am convinced as a child I only actually bothered to properly learn to read because I started playing Pokémon and there was so much in it to read.

I don't know why but I really dislike it when I have to take a bus from the gate to my plane.

I am currently not at work so I'm trying to not think about it. But when I am at work part of what I do is model cloud network outages and so I suspect I will have to read about this AWS thing once I'm back in the office.

I went to the sushi restaurant run by the younger son of Jiro. So, a two star sushi restaurant for dinner. Their most expensive menu is $250 per person, which is like "a lot" but it's hardly completely crazy.

You know I might finally get around to watching that. Would it be a good Halloween watch?