Today has been one of those days where everything seems to have gone backwards rather than forwards. I had a plan to get a bundle of projects finished, and I feel like I’m no further forward with any of them. It’s been a day of mostly Android programming and trying to get to the bottom of why a database is not running properly.

On the database side, it looks like badly written/tested code – written by someone else, but I’m now responsible for getting it working again. I wouldn’t mind, but it’s written in .net and is mostly incomprehensible. I’m wondering why I’m even looking at it, to be honest. It’s a distraction and the errors have thrown my happy plans into ruin.

The android code is nicer though. It’s an app for someone which I’m just cleaning up and getting ready for pinging over to them. Then I need to finish off the iphone version. Again I’d had a happy plan of doing it one way – HTML5 with a teeny tiny bit of bespoke code behind it, then getting someone to do the bulk of the coding. But I was let down by my usually-reliable coding agency, and so I’ve had to do it myself.

As it is, when I started working on it, it made sense to do the Android version native, and so the iPhone version is native as well. They’ll be fine, but all the best plans are getting trashed it seems.

The running has been similarly difficult. Yesterday I pulled up because my calf muscles were hurting. Today wasn’t much better. But rather than pulling up and stopping, I trudged on – taking it very slowly and having to walk occasionally. So 4.5-ish km put in, but at a super slow pace. Lots of stretches and TLC didn’t seem to do the trick, so tomorrow it’s a weights day.

It probably wasn’t helped by trying the route of the parkrun again today. The route is gently undulating with two steepish runs of 50m near the beginning and then later in the run. Normally these would be fine, but I’ve put on quite a bit of weight since the half marathon and I can really feel it. So I might try a much flatter route the next time I run – on Thursday, with legs that feel like they have wings. Hopefully.