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To get in one last run before our journey home, I was up at 06:40. I was out the door ten minutes later to do what I expected would be a slow five mile run. I headed west, and crossed the Danube Canal further along than we’d done previously (at the Rossauer Barracks), and found my way to the Sigmund Freud museum to photograph that, and then continued on in the direction of the Spittelau incinerato …
Although I’d usually run on a Monday morning during a heavier week of running, I decided as we’d be on our feet a fair bit today I wouldn’t. We were awake early once again due to the heat, had a pastry for breakfast, and was on our way to the tram stop at 08:40. Thankfully, whilst still very warm, it felt cooler than it had at this time the day before. After a short wait at the tram stop, we took …
For this morning I’d planned a ten mile route that would take me past quite a few sights, and some areas of the city we would otherwise be unlikely to visit. I thought this was a route I’d be running by myself, but Carmen decided that with some half marathons coming up it would be good to get some longer runs in. As I was keen to avoid the hottest part of the day, and hopefully see some of these s …
We were up at 07:30 and got ready to leave at 08:00 without breakfast. It wasn’t to go to the Sofiensäle just yet, we had somewhere else to be first. How could we visit a country we'd not been to before, one that has a parkrun community, and not actually visit parkrun. Of course, we'd be going there. We walked to the station at Praterstern to catch the U1 train to Alte Donau. Fortunately this U-Ba …
With parkrun tomorrow, I’d made the decision that I wouldn’t be going for a run today. I suspected that I’d be spending the majority of the day sitting down too, so would be quite a restful day. I’d not slept that well due to the heat, and the noise of the fan - the only thing keeping us close to a bearable temperature. So lacking sleep, it was probably for the best. The entire reason for this tri …
Going to Vienna was not something I’d considered, whether for this year, or in general. I’d been through Austria briefly on my way to Obersalzberg from Munich, but hadn’t spent any proper time there. So I was likely to go one day, but that was a nebulous thing that could be any time. Carmen was invited to Vienna, along with her classmates from the London Dance Studio in Hammersmith, to watch their …