Archive for the ‘Photos’ Category

Snow

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 | Photos

Have you ever seen snow before? In case you haven’t, here are some pictures.

2023 in pictures

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 | Photos

Venla achieves her marathon wristband at junion parkrun.

Naas duathlon.

St Patrick’s Day.

Lough Cutra triathlon.

Dublin Mountain Backyard Ultra.

Metalman triathlon.

Viking marathon.

Around The Park, Around The Clock.

Helmsley triathlon.

Antrim Coast half marathon.

Marlay parkrun.

Venla and her cousins.

The Last Tram in paperback.

Killiney beach

Friday, October 13th, 2023 | Photos

Lovely beach outaide of the bay so you get proper waves, and they have toilets, too.

2022 in pictures

Monday, January 2nd, 2023 | Photos

My front crawl fundamentals workshop.

Keswick Mountain Festival.

SwimRun Llanberis.

World Triathlon Leeds.

Man Vs Coast.

Venla at the IRONKIDS finish line.

IRONMAN Copenhagen finish line.

Howth, Dublin Bay.

Trinity College.

Farewell, Nike Zoom Span

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 | Photos

Non-runners can never understand how hard it is to get rid of your favourite pair of old running shoes. We’ve been through so much together.

2019 in pictures

Thursday, January 2nd, 2020 | Photos

Elina’s birthday at kitty cafe.

The triathlon season kicks off in Skipton.

Map of my first 100-mile bike ride.

Mark Knopfler at Leeds Arena.

Finishing my first full distance triathlon.

Another Yorkshireman photo because a) it was an ironman-distance race, and b) Venla looks cute.

Masters graduation ceremony.

Group holiday in Weymouth.

Venla playing on the beach.

IRONMAN 70.3 Weymouth finish line.

My dad completes his first sprint triathlon.

Venla’s 3rd birthday.

New 10k PB at the Abbey Dash.

Christmas jumper

Sunday, December 29th, 2019 | Life, Photos

I’ve never really had a Christmas jumper. I have a Finnish jumper, with raindeer on, that I trot out each Christmas to join in the festivities. But ideally, Christmas jumpers should be horribly loud garish.

When I saw this one, I couldn’t resist:

It reads:

All I want for Christmas is the means of production

For those who do not recognise the quote, that is a reference to Karl Marx.

Of course, there is a huge amount of irony in someone taking the work of Marx, commoditising it into a jumper that they have then sold me using a global marketplace like Facebook. But surely Marx himself saw this coming?

2019 UCI Road World Championships road race

Saturday, October 5th, 2019 | Photos, Sport

The final race of the World Championships was the men’s elite road race. Road races are not always the most exciting because the peloton rides together, so you get one big bunch and it is all over in under a minute. However, as it started from Leeds city centre, walking up to The Headrow at 9am did not seem too big an ask.

HPH Brownlee duathlon

Friday, October 4th, 2019 | Photos, Sport

Last week, Venla and I headed up to the Brownlee circuit to cheer everyone on who was competing in the second Hyde Park Harriers Brownlee duathlon: a 2km run, 10km bike and final 2km run. It was a tough event, but we kept pushing to the end and managed to eat six pieces of cake between the two of us.

Venla’s nap time

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 | Family & Parenting, Photos

Venla is at the stage where she can go all day without a nap but is very cranky towards the end if she does. Sometimes she has one, sometimes she doesn’t. This means she often gets home from daycare very tried and sometimes has a nap out of sheer exhaustion.

For example, here is a nap she had while standing up.

Another time, I allowed her to have a 30-minute nap on the sofa. But then I needed here awake so she didn’t wake up too early the next morning. So, I picked her up and sat her next to the kitchen where I was making dinner. She went to sleep anyway.