Money For Nothing?

OK so now that Microsoft Edge is based on the Chrome browser it's a lot more attractive to use. I've been using it for both work and home since it was first put on general release.

Edge now supports many of the features of Chrome along with better integration into the Microsoft eco system.

For some years now I've been a member of the Microsoft Reward scheme. Having to purposefully switch to Internet Explorer, or the old Microsoft Edge meant that other than a couple of dedicated months, I just didn't stick with the program.

I still "game" the system, I don't feel that Bing gives me anything like the quality of search results that Google does so I purposefully perform 30 searches with Bing that are actually of no use to me other than to gain the 3 points per search. Similarly with the 20 mobile searches.

The quizzes and polls can be interesting giving a few additional points per day.

Personally I'm saving up points for sweepstake entries. I have no concept of how many people are entering these sweepstakes or what the odds of me getting anything are but I figure I'm paying for these entries with a few minutes of my time each day.

The rewards site offers vouchers for Amazon, Halfords, NEW LOOK, John Lewis, M&S, PizzaExpress, Tesco and other retail outlets. The points to pounds ratio isn't great but again, it something for a little of your time every day.

For more information have a look at https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/

5km The Opposite Direction

Managed to run the full 5km this time. Possibly helped by the fact this was a second attempt, possibly helped by the fact that for the past week we've been running every other day which in this case means I've run 3 x 3km, certainly helped by the fact that I ran with Maia and she runs at a slightly slower and more consistent pace and certainly helped by running the opposite direction to the last attempt.
Running the route anti-clockwise means that the run starts with the same short climb to the apex of the whole circuit then down hill to the lowest point in about 1km.
The run along the river, as you'd expect, is flat, then there's the gradual climb up again over 1km back up to Stoughton crossroads.