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10.06 – 10.12
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Sun Oct 12 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Life

Σσ went to a conference in Manchester and aunt Kika came to visit. The kids loved having Kika around and subsequently didn’t resent Σσ too much for going away.

Αα continues to be a general screamfest but she spared Kika the worst of it at least. Ηη has managed to remain remarkably calm throughout the majority of Αα’s meltdowns.

Ηη wanted to make it three from three at junior parkrun. He needs to work on his pacing strategy – it’s very much all-or-nothing at the moment. Not sure running in the cold is doing much for his relentless cough but I can’t convince him not to go. I only very slightly regret promising him I’d take him whenever he wanted to go (mostly because the long club run is always scheduled for the same time). I imagine(/hope) he’ll display a bit less enthusiasm when it gets colder and wetter.

We hung out with Rawi on Saturday. It was a perfect autumn afternoon and we managed to avoid going to the playground which always counts as a huge parenting win as far as I’m concerned.

Ηη, upset about being asked to eat his tea on Sunday, said what was almost certainly the most horrible thing to have come out of his mouth: “Dad, if your dad was ever back on earth, I would kill him again”. I think he immediately knew that he’d overstepped the mark and I know that he couldn’t really appreciate how malicious a thing it would be to say, but it definitely touched a nerve. I’m glad he stayed out of my way for 10 minutes after saying it before apologising because I’m not convinced I’d have forgiven him quite so easily if he hadn’t. He’s been overly nice to me ever since – I’ll ride that train while I can!

Watching

Running

2025-10-marathon.jpg screenshot of Strava app telling me my predicted marathon time has improved to less than 3 hours
Strava thinks sub-3 is on. Presumably this means I don’t have to actually run it.