duelling cameras

Haha love these two photos taken by David and Janene of Janene and David watching a certain cycling race this week. Taken near Turckheim.

royal photo bomb

Everyone else is sharing this so why not?



And Paul Kennedy posted this as sun set over Glasgow last night



And my women's triathlon post, "tale of three Emmas" is still the second most viewed post on this blog, beaten only by "Tidal Breathing" for some reason, possibly because of the latter's title, "διάφραγμα"!

Glasgow memories from 4 June this year

See where we went! With the Commonwealth Games starting today, and the women's and men's triathlons kicking off the viewing (or failing that, the listening) to which I am looking forward, my thoughts go back to the wonderful day we had in Glasgow on 4 June. We were staying in Larbert right next to the railway station and we took a train to Glasgow where we walked around for much of the day. There was quite a lot of work being done to prepare for the Games, particularly along the river. This is a SMALL selection of the photos I took that day.




Construction for the Games in progress




















A well dressed personal trainer (forergound) and her group at lunch time








This tunnel is actually quite a long over-pass crossing the main highway near the stadium. Note the separate paths for pedestrians and cyclists.

Monday's training

Training on Monday 21 July: running early were Bron, Cathy, Christopher, Jen and me. Then running 10 x 330m including a 100m hill, on 2 minutes, were Andy, Bron, Caroline, Colin, Daniel, Ewen, Jen, Kym, Leonie, Lorena, Marilyn, Richard, Ruth, Vanessa & Warrick. We followed this up with some short attrition hill sprints with a very close finish between the final four. Finally, we had a pleasant dinner at the Yacht Club, where Jenny and I were joined by Rae, Caroline, Andy, Leonie, Vanessa, Kym, Marilyn, Ruth, Warrick, Ewen & Bron. An enjoyable long day!


Caroline and Andy at the Yacht Club after training

race results

Friday 18 July Customs 5k
Geoff Moore 23:10
Bronwyn Calver 24:09
Caroline Campbell 29:49

Saturday 19 July Ginninderra #117 Parkrun 5k
45 Bron Sparkes 24:57 W35 New PB!
72 Ruth Baussmann 28:55 W60
124 finishers

Saturday 19 July Tuggeranong #74 Parkrun 5k
18 David Clarke 21:05 M55
33 David Webster 22:56 M60
76 Ewen Thompson 26:51 M55
158 finishers

Saturday 19 July Gungahlin #40 Parkrun 5k
19 Nadine Morrison 22:53 W40 New PB!
24 Roger Pilkington 23:23 M55
86 finishers

Saturday 19 July AACT 8k Cross Country Championships
Katie Forestier W45 33:23
Kym Chisholm W30 33:41
Ken White M60 37:46
Kathy Sims W60 38:22
Gabrielle Brown W50 40:01
Caroline Campbell W70 47:03

Commonwealth Games athletics timetable

A good website for following the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Athletics -
http://results.glasgow2014.com/sports/at/athletics.html
…contains the full program
…click on the clock icon to change to our time zone
…the first athletics event is the men’s marathon 6pm Sunday our time, with the women’s marathon at 6:30pm our time on the same course.

these wasp nests

Song of the week: "Red Socks Pugie", by Foals.
From http://youtu.be/m0IKAQVVksQ

Dublin Quay 27 May

These photos were taken late in the evening of 27 May after dinner.

Our ship










Potato famine memorial




















Runners everywhere




And cyclists














Even Crossfit