Where's Bertie? He's in a car park alongside the river Neckar by Oberesslingen. (Exact location: 48.72831, 9.32488)
Weather: Surprisingly dry since 8am, with sunny intervals.
When a thunder storm approached and passed overhead, starting at just after 10pm last night, we could hardly hear the thunder for the amount of rain drumming on Bertie's roof. Sleep was not going to be possible with that racket going on, but neither was it looking particularly feasible with the temperature, even at 11pm, stubbornly refusing to drop below 30.7 degrees - and that was with the fan in front of an open window.
In fact, over the course of the night the interior only fell to 25.7 degrees. Sticky!
The rain was lightly pattering away again as we set out at 7.30 this morning for the uneventful drive to Oberesslingen, and with the forecast telling us we were in for thunder storms all day, we expected a wet parkrun. What a bonus that it stayed stopped not just for the run and the post-run coffee, but for the entire day.
This is the same parkrun as I did 6 weeks ago on our way south. Mick was injured at the time, so missed out. He requested the return visit, and I'm always happy to repeat a course*.
Post-run, pre-coffee.
There was a good bunch here today and to our surprise we recognised not only people we met here 6 weeks ago, but also two visiting runners - they're from Stuttgart and we met them when we visited Kräherwald parkrun in June and August last year.
The savoury muffins provided by one of the regulars here were absolutely delicious! The recipe is Delia Smith's Savoury Mini Muffins and I shall be trying it out when we get home.
By the time the post-run coffee gathering had broken up and we'd walked back to Bertie, it was very nearly lunchtime. We'd arrived here this morning with no plan as to what we were doing as of this afternnoon, so abit lenghty spell of map staring and pondering was required.
The result was a decision to stay here (in the spot where we parked first thing this morning) tonight, and we have a list of possible stopping points to the south of Stuttgart for next week.
There's nowt else to report from today. A short strollette late this afternoon has been our only other activity.
(*Knowing a course is always a boost and maybe I can thank my prior experience here for setting a new 5km Personal Best this morning. Only last Saturay, during the first mile of the parkrun in Nuremberg, I conceded that my 2019 running objective of improving my 5km time was not going to happen. Two miles later, having finished relatively comfortably quite close to that time, my confidence increased. Today I bettered the PB I set in Rouen last autumn by 18 seconds (down to 24.36). And it didn't kill me ... even if towards the end it felt like it might! I was much chuffed!)
Weather: Surprisingly dry since 8am, with sunny intervals.
When a thunder storm approached and passed overhead, starting at just after 10pm last night, we could hardly hear the thunder for the amount of rain drumming on Bertie's roof. Sleep was not going to be possible with that racket going on, but neither was it looking particularly feasible with the temperature, even at 11pm, stubbornly refusing to drop below 30.7 degrees - and that was with the fan in front of an open window.
In fact, over the course of the night the interior only fell to 25.7 degrees. Sticky!
The rain was lightly pattering away again as we set out at 7.30 this morning for the uneventful drive to Oberesslingen, and with the forecast telling us we were in for thunder storms all day, we expected a wet parkrun. What a bonus that it stayed stopped not just for the run and the post-run coffee, but for the entire day.
This is the same parkrun as I did 6 weeks ago on our way south. Mick was injured at the time, so missed out. He requested the return visit, and I'm always happy to repeat a course*.
There was a good bunch here today and to our surprise we recognised not only people we met here 6 weeks ago, but also two visiting runners - they're from Stuttgart and we met them when we visited Kräherwald parkrun in June and August last year.
By the time the post-run coffee gathering had broken up and we'd walked back to Bertie, it was very nearly lunchtime. We'd arrived here this morning with no plan as to what we were doing as of this afternnoon, so a
The result was a decision to stay here (in the spot where we parked first thing this morning) tonight, and we have a list of possible stopping points to the south of Stuttgart for next week.
There's nowt else to report from today. A short strollette late this afternoon has been our only other activity.
(*Knowing a course is always a boost and maybe I can thank my prior experience here for setting a new 5km Personal Best this morning. Only last Saturay, during the first mile of the parkrun in Nuremberg, I conceded that my 2019 running objective of improving my 5km time was not going to happen. Two miles later, having finished relatively comfortably quite close to that time, my confidence increased. Today I bettered the PB I set in Rouen last autumn by 18 seconds (down to 24.36). And it didn't kill me ... even if towards the end it felt like it might! I was much chuffed!)
The little girl in the background looks envious of your muffins.
ReplyDeleteEither that or it was a look of disapproval that I'd helped myself to a second one.
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