I’ve been struggling with trying to get an application run nicely on a windows tablet today. The web app works perfectly in Chrome, but Chrome doesn’t play nice with Metro/Modern UI, and Internet Explorer 11 doesn’t do HTML5 webcam capture. It’s still not resolved and I need to get it working quickly. If only Microsoft could implement the standards that the other browsers use. But that would be too easy.

It being Thursday, I was at the dancing lessons this evening. Moving on to the eight count in the beginners classes and some more charleston in the improvers classes. I really struggle with the lindy circle and so it’s good to go over it again in the beginners. I’m not sure why I have such a mental block with it, but it doesn’t seem to click – which is a pain as so much other fun stuff comes off the back of it. I’ll get there. Later we were first doing a tandem charleston, then something called the running charleston and then some spins from the tandem charleston. It was fun but I was knackered at the end of it.

I’m off to Oxford tomorrow for the Lindy Hop festival. I’m looking forward to it, if only because I’m hoping that it will give me an insight into other people teaching it. I’m still grappling with the basics and it will be good to do it with a completely new set of people.

The training plan had me running at some point today. Given that I’d been battling with the windows browsers for most of the day, I hadn’t been out. I toyed with the idea of going to the gym after dancing, but by the time I dropped Jude off at home, it was 9:20 and there wouldn’t be enough time for a run on the treadmill before the place would be closing.

Instead, I ran along the A59, down to Mill Dam Lane and back again. I was looking to do about 3.5km, but it came to 4.2km. I also ran it at what I thought was a pleasant tempo, and it turned out to be a reasonable pace – 6 min/km, one of the kilometers was right into the wind and felt very slow. So I considered that to be a reasonable run.

It was about 10pm when I got home in time for us to watch some Charlie Brooker.

Earlier in the day I’d walked to the school to get the kids and then meandered back. It wasn’t as quick as I’d have liked, but walking through town on market day is never a speedy trek. I covered 5.4km walking.

I may look at this application again and see if I can get it working. If I come up with something I’ll probably post something technical here, but that relies on getting it working first…