Club Wellness Day

 The Tri-Club had organised a wellness day for us. Starting with short run in Shannon Bridge (I cycled to it) but the main event was cold water dips and Sauna. I was dreading it at first, the water in the river was pretty cold! But once the first dip followed by warming up in the sauna was done, it felt great and I repeated it many times!

Forest Run #2

 A great turn out for the 2nd forest run in this year series!

And of course, plenty of cakes and sweets afterwards!

Preparing for 70.3 Ironman Cascais Portugal

 Only 8 more days to go to my next 70.3 race in Cascais Portugal. Today my bike is being picked up by a company that brings them to the race and back. The same van is picking up bikes from 4 other club members so I soon hear they are way too late but eventually the came and got the bike including this bag with most of my racing gear. Hopefully it will all get there OK...

AI Experiment

 We are thinking about buying a new chair for the kitchen living area. To sea what it would look like I  use AI to virtually replace our existing chair. I am quiet impressed what you can do now with AI.
This first picture is the chair isolated from an image in a brochure.

The room as it is now

With the new chair (the foot seems to be missing)

View from behind, foot there now (but open instead of solid)

All and all these image convince us of the right choice and we will order the chair tomorrow. Be interesting to compare these AI generated pictures to the real one later (in 3 month time)

More Mushrooms

 Yet another run, yet more mushroom pictures. Particular like the first group:

 

Storm Amy & Forest Run #1

 Thanks to Amy, the first autumn storm we are yet again 24h without power. Despite that we go ahead with the first of my popular forest run series for the triathlon Club. And Brian, one of my club mates has an EV that you can plug into. So with some extension leads we can run the kettle and our fridge for a little while 😊
During the run we notice that yet again some more trees have come down but only one is really blocking our route and we need to climb around it...

London Day 4, Coal Drops Yard

 After the conference today I want to do do some shopping and that way I discover a nicely renovated area I haven't visited before: Coal Drops Yard.

Some very interesting architecture:

London Day 3, Nighttime Photography

 After visiting baby Ronan I go back into the city for some nighttime shots.
Click here for the complete photo album of this trip.

Baby Ronan Kilcullen

Since I was in London for work i has to opportunity to visit the latest great-granf-chilf in Irene's family. Irene's oldest nephew Shay and his partner Maggie has a baby boy called Ronan only 2 weeks ago: 

London Day 3, Islington

Today's commute to the conference centre doesn't go well. Our bus gets completely stuck twice. But eventually we get there.

We have a long lunchbreak so we visit a local antiques market and take a walk along the Regent's Canal