Parkrunners anonymous

Interesting book club choice for us runners - Running Like a Girl

A friend was raving about this one the other day so I've applied for a copy.

I know some are close ish to me and I'm just drumming up a bit of business for my club if anyone is interested in a lovely rural road 10k

Not sure about that OhoneOhTwoOhThree, it was only 8 miles, the other 5 have to be that quick too!

Am also in the 30-34 category :)
I'm in Coventry, but also run South Manchester quite a bit as have family up there. Did lots of tourism last year trying to get my 50 (NY Resolution!) So have done Poole, Sheringham in Norfolk, Highbury Fields in London etc, plus a good few of the Midlands ones near me. PB was at Solihull as it's a lovely flat course but at the moment I'm about 2 mins 20 seconds off that ... Eeek, I have some serious training to do!
Anyone know how best to regain speed after an injury?

Ah Ponte's not far... about 50 mins away.

Ah, Sunny Scunny :) I'm from Doncaster originally thenightsky :)

I'll be in Pontefract in a couple of weeks....? I've been back to do Doncaster before. That's my PB course

melliebobs I do scunthorpe, which seems to be miles away from any Mumsnet runners.

My home run is Wallace, Lisburn (I'm in Norn Irn). I've also run at Portrush and Queens Belfast. Our first anniversary is coming up in March, so I'm sticking to Wallace for the next few weeks as I'm second in the points table! But after that I'm looking forward to doing a bit more ParkRun tourism - there's some nice looking flat courses nearby I'd like to try.

Your long run sounds good cinnamon - you will be miles ahead of me at the boundary run . DH has also just found out he probably has to leave for an overseas trip that day, so will not be able to wait for me at the halfway point. And my achilles is permanently sore. In better news I have fixed up a lunchtime run on Thursday.

Shall we try to fix a date for a Bedford meet-up? 22 Feb or 29 March would work for me.

Small stabby pinch is what I have when I'm running hard or long. It's just achey afterwards now which is new :(

Good plan OhOne I am up for Bedford meet up :) I will make sure I track you down next week blathers. I will be taking it steady as have round 2 of my dirt run the morning afterwards,

Welcome thefemaleJoshLyman!

Dh always says if the pain spreads but lessens its better than a small stabbing point blatherskite.

Well done in your t-shirt runningLou! Which triathlon are you doing? My friend who I run with is doing the tearjerker at elveden in may.

We're in the same age category EauRouge.

How's your Achilles OhOneOhTwoOhThree?

I do Brandon country park and have done Thetford but didn't yesterday :(

I did a lovely long run today with a guy training for London. Luckily he did he long run of 16 miles yesterday so wanted to take it slowly. We fluctuated from 9-9 1/2 min miling which was good for me. And we missed the rain by about 2 mins which is always good!

Sounds good! Actually I'd only have to leave about 20 mins earlier than usual so not too early.

I'm up for that :)

Eau let's plan a Bedford meet up sometime in the spring - we can rope in lego and blathers as well

I go to Huntingdon. Quite tempted by a bit of tourism, I could drive to Bedford easily enough but I'd have to persuade DH to get up early to look after the DDs...

Calf is worse but not awful. It aches even between runs now which is new but it's not painful just 'there'.

Decided to miss the long run today and rest it. I'd have only managed the first hour anyway and for some reason the drop off was nowhere near the start this week so I'd have had to drive the the start and then find my way back to my car from the drop off too. Plus, it's raining and miserable. It's been weeks since I had a lie in so I'm not feeling too guilty. Might see if DS fancies a little run with me later if the weather dries up.

Yesterday was my 58th parkrun and I went to visit OhOne in Bedford. Next weekend, I'm off to visit Lego in Northampton to do their Magic Mile. MK is my usual course but we're planning a lot more tourism this year. I'm going to be at Pontefract for the Valentines weekend run so I can run with my brother for his 50th.

mellie I usually go to Bedford, but have also been to Milton Keynes, Northampton and Huntingdon, all of which are in striking distance for me.

Well done runningLou! Congratulations on your 50 shirt

Snap Melanie - I'm on 34 too, and almost had the same time as you yesterday

Well done EAU as well for being first in your age group

Hope your 10K goes well mellie

How's your calf blathers?

Out of interest which ParkRun does everyone go to?

Well done on the 50 T shirt! It'll take me years to get mine at the rate I'm going.

Met up with fishandjam for Parkrun yesterday. It was seriously muddy again but I managed not to fall over this week (did some very graceful windmill arms and shrieking though). We did pretty well, much better than last time.

I was first in my age category! Thanks to all the other SW30-34 for not showing up

Yay, well done on your 50 Tshirt!

I did my 34th run yesterday - weather conditions very cold, blustery, wet. I dont run well in those circumsatnces, so a time of 28.32 I was happy with.

Really happy to be back at parkrun yesterday after 3 weeks off with knee injury after slipping in the mud crossing the finish line. Pretty rubbish time compared to my best but just good to be back! It's Coventry's 4th birthday next week so am planning cake. We have to run in our PJs - bit apprehensive as course is so muddy! Don't want mud-soaked PJ trousers flapping round me the whole time!!
Have signed up for a 10k in April and also my first ever sprint triathlon in May. The latter totally terrifies me!!! Needed something to get me training properly though.
Oooh, and I collected my 50 t-shirt - very proud to cycle back home wearing it, too!
Well done to all who ran yesterday!

no running for me today. got a 10k event tommorow so I volunteered at my parkrun today I did the finishing tokens. hard work cos it was so cold I couldn't feel my fingers didn't drip any though. winner

I took it fairly easy but everything aches this afternoon. Tomorrow's long run has a complicated drop off if you only want to do an hour which I'm considering using as my excuse to miss it and have a lie in instead.

My calf is still feeling bruised which is new too - and probably not a good sign.

Might take DS for a practice run instead