Travel 2023 – Copenhagen, Day 2

Saturday 24th June, 2023 – Copenhagen, Denmark After a good night’s sleep, I was all set to go and parkrun somewhere in Copenhagen, preferably at Amager strandpark. I sorted my kit out and looked up the route I’d use to get there (about half a dozen stops on the metro), downloaded the DOT app to…

Fitness/Travel 2018 – Tokoinranta parkrun, Helsinki

Saturday, December 1st 2018 – Tokoinranta parkrun, Helsinki Unlike some people I’m not an obsessive parkrun tourist, which means I don’t find a parkrun first before deciding where to go on holiday. Rather, if there is a local parkrun and I’m in the area and can fit it in, then I will. Which is how…

Fitness 2014 – Shhh….Whisper It… Don’t Alert the Running Gods

On the grounds that they are nasty, sneaky beasties who take pleasure in tormenting runners by making them into non-runners. I think I may be making progress. I’m probably not doing as much core work as I should, but after 6 weeks of solid swimming sessions to build some endurance (and some upper body tone…