steevc just finished a 6.91km run, that lasted for 42 minutes. This run helped steevc burn 513.0 calories.Description from Strava:The weather has been pretty warm for late October with the odd drop of rain. Today it was not looking too bad at lunch time. I fancied a chance of route and so headed for Stevenage old town. This was the home of Vincent Motorcycles until 1955. There is a plaque for that and also one for racer George Brown who worked there. A friend's grandfather also worked there.

steevc just finished a 5.95km run, that lasted for 36 minutes. This run helped steevc burn 395.0 calories.Description from Strava:Strava says this is my 800th activity! I was surprised it is that many.The weather was not looking too bad and so I opted for a lunchtime run from work. I hit a snag at the start as the cleaner was in the changing block, so I could not get in there at first. After a trip to the loo it was available again. I was the only one in there, but that is not uncommon.

I am around 3 years into my drumming journey. Luckily I have some friends who are willing to play with me. We have a band @theriverkicks who play a mix of old folk tunes and some more modern songs, but some of us are trying something else now with some jazz tunes. We have played jazz before, but then I was playing guitar and drums is a different matter. For a starter I had not played with brushes before. These are used when you want a less percussive sound. I looked up some lessons on Drumeo to get me started. I have done a little swing drumming, but am still getting the feel of it. Drumeo actually have a jazz course starting very soon, so I shall be doing that.

steevc just finished a 12.76km run, that lasted for 78 minutes. This run helped steevc burn 1054.0 calories.Description from Strava:Storm Ashley is hitting the UK. It will be worst in the north, but winds are getting up here and the Great South Run in Portsmouth has been called off. I was timekeeping at parkrun yesterday and a lot of that was in the rain. We still had over sixty people participating. It brightened up later, but today brought more rain and I got wet on my run. It was not particularly cold though.

The NewsWho else is thinking that $HIVE should just get over 20c and keep on rising? It has been teasing us lately, but at least it is not dropping much below that value. Meanwhile $HBD has been dropping off the 'peg', but is back up there now.

I do not tend to post much about politics on Hive. I know some people here will very much disagree with me on various things. That is fine as we cannot expect to all have the same ideas. My politics would probably be described as 'left of centre', but I have never been a member of any political party and I may vote pragmatically based on who can win and what I think they can offer. With the recent UK election and other events around the world I decided I needed a bit more insight and have been listening to a couple of political podcasts. Pod Save The UK and The Rest Is Politics (TRIP) both cover UK events with the latter including international news too plus they started a US version. TRIP has got fairly big and ranks in the top 10 UK podcasts. They did a live show at the Albert Hall last year that we attended and we went to see them on the current tour too at the much bigger O2 (aka The Millennium Dome).