November Review

This is the November review, almost another year over.

A long list of running notes this month:

• Orakei Bay parkrun
• A new location the day before Auckland half marathon
• Auckland half marathon
• Covered in the Auckland 2025 report
• Aurora parkrun 18:15
• Good on a slow course with wind and rain, and the week after a half marathon
• Melbourne half marathon
• The ballot was open with another increase to $190
• I didn't register and will look at other options, depending on my winter holidays plans
• Aurora parkrun 17:45
• A much better time than the previous week, but working hard on a slow course
• Berwick Waters 17:30
• My best time for the year
• 2XU Wellness Run 10km
• Happy to finish under 36 minutes for only the second time
• Could have run a bit faster in the last kilometre
• Purchases
• Puma Deviate Nitro Elite 3 in Auckland - only $110 but was size 14 rather than 13
• Nike Vaporfly 4 - discounted to $175 and immediately felt much better than the Vaporfly 3
• Adidas Adios Pro 4 - $175
• Nike Vomero Plus - $200 but had a work gift card so effectively free

The bad month for shares finally turned up, in particular technology shares were down 15% in three weeks. A lot of end of year expenses are still coming through with even more next month:

• Air conditioner replacement - $3500
• Car insurance - $1100
• Parramatta half marathon trip - $750
• RACV - $150
• Shoes - $300
• Tax return - $1300

Nothing much happening for sports and I'm still weeks behind in NFL highlights. I missed the whole regular season of Gridiron Victoria due to lack of information online, I can't even find out where the final is being played yet.

The to do list has a bit more activity this month:

• Holidays
• Auckland report
• Parramatta weekend booked for June with a half marathon
• House
• Attended a few houses for private sale - very expensive
• New air conditioner installed before summer arrived
• Running
• Booked Run For The Kids 14km - end March
• Booked Ballarat 10km - end April
• Booked Parramatta 21km - mid June

I've been busy at work still towards the end of the year again. For December I'm planning to do the Advent Of Code again, since it's now only 12 days instead of 25.

That's it for this month:

• Books
• None
• Movies
• None
• Music
• None
• TV Shows
• None - many in progress again
• Video Games
• Nintendo Switch 2
• Donkey Kong Bananza bought - don't own the console yet
• Steam
• Command And Conquer ultimate collection bought for $10
• Xbox One
• Call Of Duty - Black Ops Cold War
• Finished the game on regular - the campaign was much too short
• 4 out of 10
• Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
• 65 GB + 130 GB installations - but at least it worked on the first attempt