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Numbers from my block last year: phone GPS and watch GPS agreed within about 1% on open roads and diverged badly on a tree-lined river path, I had a 400m gap over a 21km run. If your long runs are in woods, that's the argument for a dedicated multi-band unit, and it's also the argument for learning to run by effort rather than by whatever number you're looking at.

It gets lost because nobody says 'subcutaneous' in a comment section, they just say 'bloated' and let you imagine the worst version.

Set expectations on what parking footage actually gets you. Buffered motion detection on a street-parked car gives you a lot of clips of pedestrians and a low-resolution plate at night if you are lucky. It absolutely helped me once and gave me nothing useful the other three times. Worth doing, not a guarantee.

For midday reapplication over a shine, powder SPF gets recommended constantly and I'd push back on it hard. You cannot realistically get anything near a lab-equivalent layer out of a brush. I use a stick over the high points instead, which at least puts real product on the skin even if the coverage isn't perfect.

I gave up and buy shampoo at the destination. A small bottle is a couple of euros anywhere in the world and I leave it behind. Not a solution if you're going somewhere remote, but for cities it removes an entire category of packing decisions.

Is the rod swap something a reasonably handy person does, or is this a plumber job?

Also true that clamping matters. Holding the body in your hand is much more tiring than bracing it against a counter or between your knees, and half the people who complain about effort are doing it the hard way.

Did this at the weekend and the smell is gone. Will still do the anode when I get a socket set that fits.

That explains the whole trip. So for 0C nights I want a bag whose Comfort is at or below 0, not one that is named 0.

The joist smell is worth taking seriously on its own. Get a torch and look at the ends where they sit in the pockets, and at the underside of the subfloor near any bathroom above. If any of it is soft or blackened, that is a survey call, not a dehumidifier call.

Most people do not realise the co-packer is something you can just ask about. I phoned, got a name, and then found that manufacturer publishes far more detail about their plants than the store brand does on the bag.

Shower rail is the deadest air in the room. Put it on a hanger and hook it in front of the AC unit or the ceiling fan, ideally with the hanger turned so the shirt hangs across the airflow rather than edge on. If the unit has a dry or dehumidify mode, run that instead of cooling for a couple of hours before you sleep. Moving air beats warm air every time with wool.

Then 40L and be done. A packable daypack is 90g and 20 quid and covers the four-night stop.

Decide it on how many nights you sleep in each place. If you're moving every second night, a single bag wins because you never repack two systems and nothing gets left in the other bag. If you have two or three bases and do day trips out of them, the 20L plus daypack is much nicer because your day bag isn't a half-empty 40L flopping around. For a Lisbon to Highlands trip with a warm layer, I'd take the 40L and a 10L packable that lives in the lid, and skip the third bag.

Stop packing the front pocket with anything solid. On almost every soft pack the front pocket sits outside the frame, so a charger brick and a pair of sunglasses in there is what turns 20cm deep into 24cm deep. Move all of that inside the main compartment against your back panel and the bag goes flat again.

Right up until you have dinner with the same people three nights running, which is why the button-down earns its place. One collared thing that looks intentional covers every situation where you'd otherwise feel scruffy.