Mike Griffin

On mastodon, I follow an amazing Irish artist called Ciara and she so generously provided a line drawing of one of her Samhain pictures for smallies to colour in (and hopefully big smallies too, because I’m going to join in the fun)

I’ve been reading a lot of smaller blogs recently and have really enjoyed the shorter stream of consciousness posts that pop up in between the longer form, full on blog entries.

I had a GitHub Action that commented on Discussion posts if they had a specific label attached to them that stopped working suddenly this week. This was done through a Ruby script that is called by the GitHub Action.

We went for a walk today to celebrate Mother’s Day after the girls had handed over flowers, cards and presents that they’d variously made, bought or cajoled me into getting. We didn’t have a huge gap of time between athletics this morning and a birthday party this evening so I had to find something short and fun. I ended up finding a walk in Mulranny that was described as taking between one and two hours.

Four weeks ago i was meant to be running in the Dublin marathon but because I fell and got stitches, I wasn’t able to run. I had most of two weeks off running before I could get back into it. This gave me loads of time to find and enter a new race.

I started training for the 2023 Dublin Marathon six weeks ago, using the Hanson Advanced Marathon training plan. It’s brought me back to running six days a week and my weekly mileage has more than doubled from what I was doing for the earlier part of the year.