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I ran my second half marathon in 2024, it was the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London, and my first Marathon in Valencia, also in 2024. 2024 was the year I ran the most, an incredible (to me) ~1200km across 12 months. In fact, I think I ran too much, which kind of burned me out of it - I haven’t ran much in 2025. In 2024 I had shin splits and runners knee pain due to the increase in the work load. Ah, I also managed to ran my fastest 10km, which was something I was trying for quite some time. For so long I couldn’t run 10km under 60min, but finally did it!

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A picture of a bus station indicator in debug mode

Someone was debugging the bus station timetable some weeks ago. West Wimbledon.

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Getting overly excited about two things recently: the Oasis reunion and flipping a classic (or future classic) car. Incredibly (but not surprisingly), there’s nothing related about them. However, both can lead to frustration and massive overspending.

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While setting up this blog again, and reading (and fixing so many grammar/spelling mistakes), I realised that plenty of things has happened since I move to Europe. I guess this the real value of writing down blog posts. It works as a time capsule. I can totally travel back in time when I read these old, silly and mispelled texts.

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Picture of a Garmin watch showing an improvement on the threshold mark.

Got back to running early this year. I bought a Garmin FR 255 and I’m trying to do all the Daily Suggested Workouts (or as much as I can) and I hope I can improve my fitness level in a few months.

I finished my first half marathon

Last quarter of 2019, I decided that I’d run a half-marathon & marathon in 2020. Unfortunately, 2020 hit us hard, and I had to postpone my plans. At that point in time, I had no idea whether I’d be able to run any of the races anytime soon. For a while, I kept training hard, but gradually I started putting my training sessions aside. Although I skipped the marathon, I finally managed to finish a half-marathon.

The sweet road of building a custom date picker

Recently I had to replace a date picker component in an Angular application and I decided, along with my teammates, to go with a custom solution. The previous date picker we’ve been using was a component from ngx-bootstrap library, which is a great one.

Business Strategy: Case Study Analysis of Starbucks’ Competitive Advantage

As I mentioned in a previous post, Business Strategy: Soft-drinks Industry Analysis, I’m taking the fifth course, called Business Strategy, of Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization from the University of Illinois on Coursera. This course is taught by Deepak Somaya, Professor of Business Administration.