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25/06/2024
June started quietly, thank goodness. A weekend of almost nothing was just what was needed. Rel had, following our visit to see my parents, begun a mammoth trip to South Sudan and Kenya. So the weekend was doubly quiet, really. While she was away she managed to fit in a quick weekend trip to Rwanda to run the Kigali Peace Marathon while I did a local half marathon to keep her company and get my June half marathon knocked off quickly. Again, not as fast as I would have liked, but the weather was warm and the course definitely not road only.

Rel was away for another whole week while I fought (and won) Red Hat to get a piece of software patched for certain security issues. I was then able to get that software installed, which reduced the number of vulnerabilities reported by our scanning software. So that was a good week. Rel flew home on the 15th to a house and fridge filled with all the things she'd been missing (including me). She couldn't stay for more than a day or so, but it was enough to reconnect properly. Which leads us to last week, when I had a week full of work, Rel had half a week, then an early weekend of fastpacking on the Pennine Way with an ultra running friend as recce for them doing the Summer Spine Race.

During that weekend I took my monthly trip to see my parents and do any jobs they needed doing as well as just be with them for a few days. While I was there I ordered some trekking poles for the hiking trip I'm taking with Rel and her mother this weekend and next in Cornwall. Thankfully they arrived for collection yesterday, which means I'll be able to use them for both this trip and the overnight pacing of Rel for her Dales Highway ultra almost immediately afterwards.

So, yes, Cornwall tomorrow, and back to work on July 5th for one day before I get trains to meet Rel in the gathering darkness and we run ~50K through the night! More on that in July's entry, I hope!