Monet

[NIGHTINGALE1]

You may see a badly out of focus photograph but to me this artistic early morning canal scene is reminiscent of Monet's Grand Canal (aye right).

The air was fresh this morning when I started out on my run. It was cool against my bare arms and legs. It didn't take long for me to get warmed up and I soon felt like a reversed baked alaska.

The run went well and I was pleased with the length of time and distance that I ran. For the moment I still content to consolidate around 30 minutes running three times a week.

[Ullyrunner Graduate]

Haha - reverse baked Alaska! Love it!

Looks perfect to me. Very atmospheric!

[pollyp1 Graduate]

Lovely picture. I'm definitely with you on the consolidating bit.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooool... beautiful.... currently 34 degrees here... I am gazing at this and reading the word cooooool!

Lovely photo and lovely post... keep it up

[poppypug Graduate]

Lovely , Well done ! xxx

[AncientMum Graduate]

Lovely photo. Well done with the consolidating, it's so important

[davelinks Graduate]

Good pic, yes consolidate. Some are impatient and want to speed off as soon as they've graduated, and then become so disheartened when they can't do it, pays dividends to consolidate, then in your own time you can progress to 5km...

[McFitty Graduate]

Consolidate? - only thing I can do at the moment. Tried 1,2,3, for pity's sake, and it near on killed me!

Gorgeous pic there too, looks like a fab place to run. Really happy to hear your still enjoying it. Have fun and enjoy your early mornings waterside.

[Ellymeg Graduate in reply to McFitty]

I thought it was just me! Ah well! Twas too soon for us m'dear! 🍻🍸

[McFitty Graduate in reply to Ellymeg]

🍸🍻😊

[OldPossum]

Looks very lovely. I love the idea running like a reversed baked Alaska - very apt description ! Actually come to think of it I like the idea of baked Alaska. 🙃

[Ellymeg Graduate]

Such imagery, and I mean the baked Alaska!! Still chuckling!

The photo' is hauntingly beautiful, with a hints of Turner, and Whistler (but not his mother) ! 😉

Sounds like today was a good day! - hurrah for you!

[NIGHTINGALE1 Graduate in reply to Ellymeg]

I guide at Speke Hall. Frederick Leyland who lived there for 10 years was patronto Whistler.

[Ellymeg Graduate in reply to NIGHTINGALE1]

Didn't Mrs W once hang there?

How interesting that you Guide there, do you run there too?

[NIGHTINGALE1 Graduate in reply to Ellymeg]

No I don't run there. Whistler wrote to his mother and said how wonderful her portrait looked hanging on the walls of this great mansion. Rumour has it that Mrs Leyland and Whistler were more than artist and model.

[MichaelH070862 Graduate]

A lovely view and a good run by the sound of it looks like I be joining the consolidation bus this week once I've rested my knee