CitroJim's AX, C3 Picasso, Cycling and Running Tales

[CitroJim]

My new bike tyres have arrived to go into stock for when I need them...

I'm going to be bang on-trend with them. Tan sidewalls are very much the current fashion

It was a new (to me) company I dealt with and delighted to see they slipped three energy bars in with the order Another well-known purveyor of all things bike do similar with little bags of Haribo but Clif bars are a definite class above and much more acceptable...

And a good one of me from Tuesday night with my head torch blazing...

Some say it's a definite improvement as you can't see my face!!!

Mick, can you work your magic and remove the runner immediately behind me please?

[mickthemaverick]

I'll give that a go when I get home Jim as I only have the phone to work with and its just too small an image to play with!! Hopefully sort it over the weekend!

[CitroJim]

I'll give that a go when I get home Jim as I only have the phone to work with and its just too small an image to play with!! Hopefully sort it over the weekend!

That'll be awesome Mick Thanks ever so!

[mickthemaverick]

So as not to keep you in suspense I borrowed Ken's laptop. I assumed you want to keep the event title?

as requested

[CitroJim]

Excellent! Thanks Mick Oh yes, keep the title

[CitroJim]

Today I have been busy celebrating my 190th day of parkrun volunteering

I started off early this morning doing the Event Day Course Check for Bury Field parkrun in cold and icy conditions...

Where there was standing water it had frozen overnight and was almost skateable...

Then, that done and my findings reported to the Run Director I hopped into Pix and rushed over to Linford Wood parkrun to be Run Director there...

I had a look at the breakdown of what I've done on those 190 days...

I'm Run Director at Linford Wood again next week and then for the following two weeks I'm Run Director at Bury Field. Good job it's my favourite role!

Tomorrow I'll do my 191st volunteer timekeeping at MK Junior parkrun before rushing off to run a half marathon in the MK Festival of Running...

This weekend is running away with itself In fact I've only just finished sorting and preparing the Linford Wood parkrun kit for next week. For the Run Director it's a full day of work on a Saturday...

I love doing it

[CitroJim]

Just in case, due to a whole day of absence on here, anyone might have thought running a half marathon had killed me, I'm happy to report just the opposite

I enjoyed a most excellent one in the MK Festival of Running

Here's me with flying feet!

MK FoR Photography

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well done! Running like a Swiss Watch Jim!

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Well done! Running like a Swiss Watch Jim!



Regards Neil

In which case perhaps it should be posted on Tik tok!!

[CitroJim]

Wow! Magic How on earth did you find that Neil? Your ability to dig stuff out of the dark, dusty corners of the 'net is amazing!

Mick... And with Coldplay's 'Clocks' as the background music

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wow! Magic How on earth did you find that Neil?

Always like the random element of images Jim, and being a number noticer, just put 3186 into a search and it hit on that Rolex 3186 movement which was a nice image in itself.

Looking at the pic from a numbers point of view it has captured 3 quite distinctly and a hugely random factor in the capture at that moment of those numbers. I wonder what they add up to?

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Looking at the pic from a numbers point of view it has captured 3 quite distinctly and a hugely random factor in the capture at that moment of those numbers. I wonder what they add up to?

Let's see the featured runners numbers are 5,235 + 3,186 + 3,606 = 12,027

Give this 1 minutes 2 seconds a go, a first for the FCF, a charmingly introduced AI Bull Sire called 12,027 Storflor (beautifully pronounced by Turi, the girl presenting!), not as in the dead parrot sketch a Norwegian Blue, but a Norwegian Red.



Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Now that's truly random Neil! A good find, if only for Turi - she's pretty and has a lovely voice

I wonder how fast the bull can run?

[CitroJim]

It being a rather fine day here I took off on the bike for a 56 mile circumnavigation of Milton Keynes with the primary objective of checking on the construction progress of the new East-West Rail (EWR) link between Oxford, and eventually, Cambridge. This is Phase 1 running between Bicester and Bedford and slated to open in 2024. In effect it's the new 'Varsity Line'.

At Swanbourne, the location of a station on the old Varsity Line but not on the new, both up and down lines are laid but not yet fully ballasted, regulated or tamped.

The pile of track panels in the station yard suggests there may be a siding to be built here at a later date but I see no point-work to support that theory as yet.

These pictures were hard to take as the whole site is securely fenced. I had to hold my phone well above my head to clear the fence and what came out was more or less guess-work! No chance of trespassing on this new railway... All the old original overbridge parapet walls have been extended upwards by some several feet to discourage potential 'jumpers'...

The weather was good and in the sunshine it felt quite warm. The wind still has quite a bite to it though... When the sun hid behind clouds the temperature seemed to drop by about ten degrees...

A jolly good day out none-the-less

[NewcastleFalcon]

This was taken on the seventh day of the seventh month JIm...but not in 77 , but a real live train on those new rails!

https://flic.kr/p/2nAdJYC

Neil