…and 2023 hopes

It is New Year! I am continuing to enjoy quiet festive time with my family. Dad made his traditional Hogmanay pizza last night and is making his traditional Lancashire hotpot for New Year’s Day tea tonight. Life is good.

This year’s New Year Resolutions:

  • House stuff and decluttering 1: wear (or get rid of) (or both) every item in my wardrobe, with possible allowed keepsake exceptions such as my wedding dress. Clothes are the biggest decluttering target for me.
  • House stuff and decluttering 2: paint at least one room.
  • Rollover from last year 1: finish at least one of my longstanding unfinished game projects.
  • Running 1: do better in races than last year. This is a fairly low bar to clear.
  • Running 2: run more races than last year. I miss 10ks.
  • Running 3 and rollover from last year 2: take part in parkrun every possible parkrunday. I’m not intending to travel to any non-parkrun countries so it should be doable if I’m lucky with health and weather.
  • Rollover from last year 3: catch up with Doctor Who.
  • Rollover from last year 4 and the most important on the list: prioritise videogaming.

I made the list shorter (and easier) this year in the hope I’ll get more of it done!

P.S. Happy birthday blog!  It’s been five years since my first post. I’m no longer blogging daily, but still at least twice per week, and I think the blog will be better in 2023 as a result.

parkrunday: Portobello #314

I’ve done two parkruns in one day before (three years ago today – the last ever New Year’s Day double before they stopped it) but I believe this weekend is my first time parkrunning two days in a row! We made the annual trip to Portobello for the New Year’s Day parkrun. A fairly stiff and slow run but it was better than last year! A good-ish omen for 2023 I hope.

Post-parkrun
Looking a bit tired afterwards. Not much sleep – and very grateful for the Scottish 9:30am parkrun start time!

I’m looking forward to a different side of parkrun over the next few months, as I’ll be doing lots of volunteering during my marathon training. Many Saturday mornings in Jesmond Dene beckon 🙂

Next week, though, I think I’ll sneak in one last run!