Couch to 10K

I really need to put this somewhere where I will be able to find it again, so here goes: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13

Travel/Food 2023 – Yorkshire

Saturday 7th/Sunday 8th October, 2023 – Wombleton, Marton, Nunnington Back in the UK, and we made a weekend trip to Yorkshire complete with an overnight stay. The impetus behind the trip was to see our friends Richard and Lindsey and to try out their new culinary venture, the Plough Inn, in the delightfully named village…

Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 5 (Southampton)

Friday, 22nd September 2023 Today was home day. On advice from J and J we decided to breakfast at 8am, despite being told our disembarkation time was 8:30. Theirs was “any time up to 09:50” so clearly no one was going to throw us off ahead of that sort of time. A leisurely breakfast would…

Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 4 (At Sea)

Thursday, 21st September 2023 I started the day with a run round Deck 7, which was quite busy at 08:00 – probably because you’re not allowed to run before that (there are cabins underneath and it would be unfair to subject sleeping people to the sound of pounding feet), and after breakfast finishes lots of…

Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 3 (Hamburg)

Wednesday, 20th September 2023 After getting an early night, we were rudely awakened by an announcement over the ship’s tannoy system at 06:45. It was our Captain informing us that we were not in Hamburg as planned. We weren’t even in the River Elbe on the approach to Hamburg. Bad weather overnight had seen the…

Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 2 (At Sea)

Tuesday, 19th September 2023 As newbies to cruises, this was likely to be the day when we’d get a better idea of whether it was for us or not. The Queen Mary 2 was still somewhere in the English Channel and would be very slowly heading towards the North Sea and then Hamburg, so we…

Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 1 (Southampton)

Monday, 18th September 2023 We’d never been on a cruise of any sort before, assuming you don’t count long ferry trips to and from Finland or overnight journeys between the UK and Europe. But we have friends, John and Janice, who have been many times and love the whole experience. So much so that we…

Travel 2023 – Copenhagen, Day 8

Friday 30th June, 2023 – Copenhagen, Denmark Friday was my last day in Copenhagen. We’d planned it so that we all travelled home the day after the workshop finished so that people could stay behind and socialise on Thursday evening as opposed to the usual routine of people being distracted in the last hour or…

Travel 2023 – Copenhagen, Days 5, 6 and 7

Tuesday 27th – Thursday 29th June, 2023 – Copenhagen, Denmark Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were mostly about the workshop, and thus about work, but we did manage to have some fun as well. I started Tuesday with a run in the neighbouring park, where I managed to get lost and ended up covering a lot…

Travel 2023 – Copenhagen, Day 4

Monday 26th June, 2023 – Copenhagen, Denmark Monday was Lynne’s last day in Copenhagen, with a mid-afternoon flight back to the UK. We had one more breakfast at the Danmark, outside in the courtyard, and then walked over to buy tickets for Tivoli for the day. We’d saved it till last partly because it, unlike…