Summer is here

Week ending 4^th June

KM Run this week: 0

KM Run since starting again: 0

Summer has come to the lakes. Throughout winter and even up until early May, it is easy enough to get them more or less to yourself, with the occasional fellow runner or walker. There is something to be said for a good run on winter’s evening, when the sun has set well before 4pm and there are a few inches of snow on the ground, and the ducks and swans sit out in the darkness on the ice.

However in the summer the lakes, like the rest of Copenhagen, wake up. Swallows and swifts are now darting about – they returned sometime last week. The first of the season’s ducklings are finding their webbed feet, though the goslings were first. No signs of any cygnets yet; a few swans sit on haphazard reed nests, on floating pontoons offshore, snapping at passing moorhens who have the cheek to try to climb on board.

But no running for the Lake Runner – as ever-increasing hordes of joggers, having emerged from their own winter hideouts, take to the paths, this one who has been running the whole way through is only admiring the spring from the benches.