A great day out yesterday at the TechUP conference – it was really nice to attend an event and meet people in person for the first time. It was a pretty full-on day, and then I did two short treadmill runs late at night (one either side of midnight to keep my streak going), so I’m having a very chilled Sunday today! Gradually catching up with Strictly and various other things from the sofa.
Category: Diary
Morning plans gone awry
No parkrun for me this morning šĀ I was meant to be volunteering at Jesmond Dene but they had to cancel, and I couldnāt run at another parkrun as I had to catch a train late morning ā no time to go home and get showered in between.Ā On top of that we had a power cut, so it was a bit of a mad morning ā just not the kind of mad I was expecting! Iāll update about the TechUP reunion event tomorrow ā it’s been interesting.
Weekend plans
A relatively quiet day today (I did go to the social run this morning, which was lovely!) before a busy one tomorrow, as I’m volunteering at parkrun then heading to Durham for the TechUP reunion event. It’ll be really nice to meet people in person after doing the course virtually last winter.
I’ll be back home for a late treadmill session tomorrow night and then a very laid-back Sunday!
Evening out
Going ‘out’ out tonight! That’s exciting. I’ve got tickets for a gig, but it doesn’t start till later so Geth and I are going for a meal first.
It’s got to the point that I have no idea how to dress for anything that isn’t running or lounging around the house. I should probably have a think about that sort of thing in the run-up to Christmas.
The slow middle of the day
I was up early this morning to drop the car off for its annual service. I’ll be picking it up later (or tomorrow if they decide it needs extra work!) but in the meantime I’m taking the day off in order to get a bit of brain downtime in advance of a busy few days.
So far I’ve spent that time staring into space and looking at pictures of woolly hats on the internet. I think I need to switch to ‘productive downtime’ (reading a book, playing a videogame etc.) before I get depressed.
Novemberish
While there may still be a couple of slightly sagging Hallowe’en lanterns on my mantelpiece, I feel I have definitely fallen full-on into November mode. I’m writing my NaNoWriMo project (which is several small projects this year, mostly game coding) and I wrapped a couple of Christmas presents to send off this afternoon. It’ll be here before we know it!
November has become a bit busy and so I’m focusing on one or two days at a time. This weekend I’m looking forward to a bumble round parkrun and then volunteering at the race on Sunday.
Happy Hallowe’en!
It’s a quiet one for me today watching dodgy old Universal monster films. I finished my short game yesterday and am planning to spend the week catching up with things I’ve been neglecting.
Just a short run this morning as I fancied an evening in tonight. I run all my short runs at easy/comfortable pace but I do seem to be speeding up a bit at the moment. Hopefully that’s a good sign.