Weekending - a return to running and some finished socks

As we often do in the first or second weekend of November, we went to Marysville with my parents. This year we took the Friday off for a lovely long weekend. Friday and Saturday were dream relaxation days- knitting and reading on the deck, and when we got tired of that, wandering into town for coffee and cake.

I finished the little socks I was freestyling:

It's so cute and fits a really well. Then I started a Kate Davies Shawl - Electric Village. This was all background to having a chance to sit down and concentrate on the Drawing Sweater. Its a slow, concentrated knit, but I made some progress while sitting on the deck.

I even played - and enjoyed playing Scrabble - with my parents. The King Parrot hanging about was just the cherry on top a beautiful time.

Then on Sunday we ran! Leon did the half marathon and I ran the 10km. It was my 12th time running in the Marysville Marathon festival.Here's our traditional pre-race selfie:

I wasn't expecting much, since my "training" has involved trotting out once a week with Leon on his slow run, or mooching along with Raph who, while very fit, started running in June this year. It was a perfect day - sunny, calm and cool and I had a perfect run. I actually finished a minute faster than last time I ran it in 2021. Weird but very satisfying.

Skip and Bee met us at the end and we went on a little car trip to a brewery in Alexandria. All in all a delightful weekend, with all of my favourite things - friends, family, knitting, reading and running in the county.

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