Adam Jaamour∎

I recently completed my first half-marathon (21.1km or 13.2 miles) in December: the London Richmond Half-Marathon!

I had initially set out to complete this challenge in the first half of 2022, but got injured during the race (only completed 8km before my knee let go). This was due to poor training intensity and poor running form. A long break from running and many physio sessions later and I was finally able to complete my first race.

I had initially set the goal of completing it in sub-2h (after seeing how well the training was going as I was finally running correctly), but discovered a couple of weeks before that the race was classified as a “trail” run with a lot of elevation changes. So I had to accept the reality that I had trained for a flat race but was about to face a hilly one, and therefore removed the sub-2h idea from my head to avoid a repeat of my 2022 attempt. Here is the Strava post with a lot of details of each split:

Back in July, I bought a GameBoy Color for £10, and decided to mod it so I could emulate my youth and play Pokémon Crystal during an upcoming 1-month trip.

However, I had no experience modding consoles, and no soldering experience. But thanks to my partner and to YouTube, I opted for the best mods I could find that I had confidence I could complete without losing the console. Here is a before & after of the project:

I completed the National 3 Peaks Challenge on June 9th-11th, raising a total of £25000 as a group (£1045 individually) for the charity Family Action.

The challenge consisted of climbing the 3 tallest mountains in the UK in less than 24 hours. The challenge was completed in 23h43m:

1. Peak 1/3: Ben Nevis (Scotland) - 1345m high - 5h39m46s:

While taking the “Information Visualisation” class during my Master’s in AI, one of our practicals consisted in calculating our 2019 carbon footprint (greenhouse gases, including CO2/CH4/N2O, that are built up from various everyday activities such as food, travel, living and shopping) via the WWF carbon footprint calculator and visualising it following the format of the Dear Data project as a postcard. The front of postcard contains the visualisation and the back contains the key to read it:

The next section cover:

• How the different attributes from the carbon footprint calculator were visualised.
• If the visualisation follow the principles of expressiveness and effectiveness by T. Munzner.
• A discussion of the visualisation’s advantages and limitations.