London Day 2, Run along the Thames

 After today's conference I take the opportunity to go for a run and take some pictures along the Thames. Its a beautiful evening for both!

London Day 1

 Have to travel to London for a conference this week. My hotel is near Waterloo station. For a moment it is as if I have arrived in Cuba 😎

Autumn Beauties

 Just some snapshots of mushrooms and autumn flowers in the golden autumn light:

The mushroom pictures were taken during one of my runs of course...

Utility Room Renovation

 Especially te kitchen installer delayed us a lot but finally our project is completed! Although the finish is a shade darker then we originally picked the result is rather nice:

The 'Grim Reaper'

Today the man with the scythe arrived. Luckily it was just Manual and he was here on invite to help me cut down the meadow. And I have to admit i was impressed; remove the first layer of all the high weeds, Manuel was able to that in about 2 hours! It normally takes me a full day with help of different kinds of machinery!

Workout on the Greenway

 Brian had suggested to do a powerbase cycle workout on the greenway. It was the perfect evening for it. some serious fast cycling and a beautiful sunset thrown in for free!

Deer for Lunch

 Did a quick lunchtime run and was delighted to run into some deer again! 

Foggy Morning

 The weather has changed, it is finally clear, thus cold and night, thus foggy in the morning. I realized yesterday on my way into work I should bring the camera today! And it was worth it!

Cycling and Photography

  Came across the old church in Moydow during todays cycle. With a bit a editing it makes for some interesting pictures:

Last Outdoor Swim at Coosan

 Tonight, David from our club brought me and a few club members out on his boat to the other side of the inner lake near the Wineport. Most started swimming there but I got in about halfway as by body gets undercooled quiet quickly and the water temperature is pretty low now. In hindsight a clever thing to do as one of the girls was completely hypothermic when she got out of the water!

It was a beautiful evening and despite the cold we all enjoyed at very much and we had finished with a warm meal by the fire in the re-opened Lough Ree Inn 😁

Repairing the Duck Pond

 The Duck pond must have had a leak. The level was too low for the hens to drink from and the duck couldn't really swim in it because it was all just mud! So Douwe and I emptied it and quickly found the damaged area which we repaired. And then we refilled it with clean water. Now, after a few days, it is clear all is fine and the duck can swim (and wash herself) again!

Training & Rainbow Season

 Still training for the half ironman in Portugal so more cycling today. A 65K route at a average of 31.5kph. It is 'rainbow season' and I had to stop for to take a picture of this one:

Running in the Forest

 Slowly building up my run training again. Today an easy 10K in the forest, just enjoying the autumn colours...

Rainbow

 On my way home today I saw this spectacular rainbow!

Setanta, Land of Legends Triathlon

 

As you can se the weather was not great today. I was in Omeath Co. Louth  for an Olympic triathlon. But the swim got cancelled so it became a run-bike-run race. I mainly wanted to see if I could run a race again after month of little running and strength exercises for my ankles. Although I ended very much at the end for the fist 2.5k run, I passed more  then 80 people on the bike! The last 10K went OK and I was only passed out by about 10 people to end at a reasonable 44th position out of 137.

A little of Opa & Oma in Newcastle Forest

 It would have been Oma's 84th birthday today. We brought some of both Opa and Oma's ashes with us from Holland and have now scattered it close to where we once all walked together...

This is the spot, this big branch

This was taken at the same spot on Douwe's birthday 10 years ago!

First Autumn Run

Just out for a quick lunchtime run, September 1st is the start of the meteorological autumn and the forest does show some of the signs: