Rudely awoken this morning, not by the dustman, but by thing one shouting the shopping delivery was here. Clare was already up and I thought they might be preparing me a cup of tea in bed. But no. The delivery man was someone I'd chatted to before about cars, and he'd acquired something new since I last spoke to him, not the beetle he keeps thinking about though. By the time we'd finished gassing the boys had unpacked all the groceries, so that's something.
Next not much time for breakfast, boys need a haircut, and Clare is going to the gym, so we had to move a bit speedily to get a lift into Hythe. Got to the barber shop just after opening so basically no queue and we all got our hair cut. Not had the usual complaints yet about how they never cut it how they want, might we have got it right this time? We walked back, and had lunch.
Then some more faffing about with energy graphs - I published what I have done so far1 and thinking about where to run in the afternoon. I had an idea to run to Ashford, but we discounted that as not safe enough, running alongside a busy road. I worked out a route around villages near Ashford, which I could do while the others were in the cinema. I did it, 16km-ish, so about ten miles, but it was not good. Some of it was fairly busy country roads with no pavements so I had to keep stepping into the nettles when cars went past. Plus I got a bit confused at every junction, no idea where I was going. I never use the map function on my watch, and I need to. Then it was a lot hillier than I wanted. So quite a good time for that distance, faster than when I did the Great South Run which was also that distance, but not as quick as I could have done. Also I planned to do longer, try and do another half marathon, but I was done by 16km. Then a walk back to the cinema to meet Clare and the boys and Jim, just in time to go into Frankie and Benny's for dinner. It was ok.
Now to tuck into my Fathers day chocolate.
Hope you had an equally enjoyable day Dad.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Wed to Clare and father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, running, eating, home-automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.