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Cake day: January 15th, 2026

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  • If I had to guess, you’re in need of building up your aerobic base. To do this you’re going to want to aim for having more time on your feet, which of course is tricky since it feels so heavy for you at the moment (I’ve been there).

    The key insight for me was that I needed to decrease my intensity during runs. 80% of your runs should be at an easy pace, which is defined as a rate of perceived exertion (RPE) of 4/10 or less.

    When I started adopting this, it felt like I was running at an annoyingly slow pace. For some people, it might even mean that you don’t run continuously during your sessions, and instead do a mix of running and walking (X minutes on, X minutes off).

















  • Communal laundry rooms are better for spreading the capital costs among the residents - energy still costs more or less the same on a per-load basis, and it gets charged to the residents in one way or the other at the end of the day.

    They’re also successively being replaced by in-home laundry machines. Lots of places offer a communal laundry room, but the residents also have a machine in their homes for the sake of convenience. Some new builds have started omitting a communal laundry room in favour of in-home machines.

    A bit of a pity, to be honest. Spreading capital costs is societally good. I say this while having had a laundry machine in-home for the past 10 years (came included with the purchase of the apartments), which I do use and enjoy the convenience of.