Good Things Friday

A few of the good things from my week …

Cutback Week with Albert Parkrun

Last weekend I was still on my cutback week for running, which I love. It meant I had a shorter long run, which gave me a chance to do something different. I switched my long run to Saturday because the weekend was going to be hot but it was starting with a lovely cool morning on Saturday. I ran from home to the Albert Parkrun. This is the biggest Parkrun in Australia and last Saturday there were 956 participants. I ran the 5K loop at about what I think will be marathon pace, then after getting my time logged, ran to DB for breakfast with the running crew. All up it was 16K. G drove there and ran with the group so I had a lift home.

Beach Day

Saturday was 37.5C, our hottest day this summer, which is pretty unusual. My daughters came over and the younger one and I walked down to Elwood beach. We swam and lazed on the beach for a while before heading back home for lunch.

Another Puzzle finished

Meanwhile, our eldest stayed home and worked on the puzzle. After lunch, she finished it off. This was one that we gave her for Christmas, so it was brand new, but two pieces were missing. We looked everywhere for them. I’m not sure where they disappeared.

Midweek Lunch Date

Wednesday our power was off from 8:30 am until after lunch so G had moved his day off to avoid having a work day interrupted by low connectivity. We had no way of heating food and we didn’t want to open the fridge as they had said the power could be off until 5:30 pm so we walked a couple of k’s along the beach to the baths and had some lunch looking over the water. Bonus: the power was back on when we arrived home.

Riding my Bike to South Melbourne

So this involves a bit of a brain fart moment from me because I went Thursday and the food stalls at the market are not open then. I’d even looked on their website at the start of the week to check when they were open. The trip wasn’t completely wasted because I took the opportunity to go to Spotlight to pick up some bits and pieces I needed to make some repairs and also to get some of our special photos into an album. I also worked out a good way to get there that avoids busy roads or roads that don’t have wide bike lanes. So I’m ready for this week … and I will go on Wednesday.

Bonus Good Things:

• I’ve been drinking my Quiet Mind tea this week. It’s a herbal tea from Tea 2 and has a lovely floral, fruity flavour. The girls gave it to me for my birthday and I’d kind of got out of the habit.
• Our son arrived safely back home from Barcelona.
• I got some bird netting for our tomatoes and am hoping that will stop whatever is eating them as soon as they start to ripen.
• I made a couple of bookings for our time in Hobart—a walking tour and dinner at Aloft. Exciting! I’m leaving the other nights in Hobart free for now until we’ve sorted out when we’ll meet our friend who lives there now.
• I’m finally feeling like I’m getting some gains in fitness. I usually find I have to slog it out for several weeks, which is very painful and then I’ll get a jump in fitness. I’m hoping this is it.
• My beans are still producing and we ate some for dinner Thursday night.
• A run of three days is forecast with 33C, 37C and 35C for this week, which seems a bit more like summer. Maybe a chance for some more swimming?
• Our hike at Ferny.
• Cool Bloggers Book Club started this week. I’d read the book, but was behind on reading blogs and didn’t remember until Thursday that it started Monday. We’re reading My Brilliant Friend.

How about you? Are you having normal weather for this time of year? Have you turned up somewhere only to find that it’s closed?