3 month plan

3 Aug 2025 · 📖 in 2 minutes Back after the usual hiatus

My blogging is, as ever, for me.

This means that when I don't write for longer periods it's because I'm lacking the motivation, spark, or, basically, time. Life gets busy, busy living, busy socialising. I shouldn't say busy, as it's time I choose to spend doing things I enjoy and sometimes that's writing.

At the moment I'm spending most of my time working and planning - I recently got engaged and weddings don't plan themselves!

Roughly my goals for the next 3 months are:

• plan a wedding(!)
• maintain 4x weekly runs in prep for marathon
• sharpen my skills

I wanted to write down a few bits about each to force myself to prioritise.

Wedding planning

Not something I've done before and something I only want to do once!

We've got a list of poeple, a shortlist of venues and a bag of great ideas - no doubt I'm going to build something for this.

It's going to be an amazing celebration of our lives together and the future we'll create. I'm super excited about the day, less so about the planning though we'll figure it out (together).

Marathon plan(ing)

First marathon in a number of years; Chester. I'm running with my brother and sister this time too!

Bee wants a 3:45, Nick aiming for a finish and I'm eyeing up the 3:30. This training block is 10 weeks. I'll be running 4x a week and if I don't get sick everything will be grand. I'm trying Runna out this time and, while I've had a few issues with sync'ing, I really like how tempo / interval runs are done.

Sharpies

In my day-to-day I use a decent amount of AI powered editors, specifically, Cursor. I find it super helpful with it's tab to complete (though I suspect it's causing my vim-fu to drop off).

That said, I've now only really ever written Golang in Cursor, which means I actually don't know the syntax all that well. This, to me, is a bit of a yellow flag. On the one hand I can pick up complex changes in languages I don't know inside-out and solve problems. On the other hand I can pick up complex changes in languages I don't know inside-out.

As a result I'm going to start learning Golang 'properly' without using AI editors (no matter how tempting). The goal here is to get through advent of code / leetcodes using golang without resorting to IDE prompts.

First appeared on Trusty Interior, last update 4 Aug 2025