Parkrunners anonymous

Definitely St Albans tomorrow. Better not drink too much tonight as we're leaving at 7:30!

parkruns seem to be getting cancelled left, right and centre around me at the moment. The current plan seems to be St Albans!

I've just run for the first time in 2 weeks - and I overindulged for our week away over Christmas so it was a bit of a struggle.

I did the 5+ stepping stone run and managed 4.3kms in 30 minutes. I won't be getting a pb in Wednesdays Parkrun, but i might get my best ever position as last years New Years Day event only had just over 100 runners (compared to the usual weekly turnout of 400+!).

I just might :) Once I'm fit again, it would be a good PB course

Well done Blathers! You must come more often!

I was so surprised I've read the email about 5 times! Honestly, I felt like I was running through treacle for all but about 1/2 a k!

The cold weather must have kept all of the faster ladies at home :)

Bloody well done Blathers!!! Especially given your recent injuries.

I've only managed that once.

Whoo hoo! 1st in my age category for me on Saturday too! :)

Blisters still sore today. Nowhere near as bad as I used to get when I did regular x-c in my youth. The off-roadness seems to make me twist my feet within my shoes in a weird way.

Brandon country park is my closest :)

What are moulded soles Kimmi?

Where are you cinnamon ? Wimpole is nice apart from the flipping sharp hill near the start, which is a big shock to the legs when you are used to flat old Cambridgeshire.

I'm going to try and do a run tomorrow as I'm not too achey today

Hi Hedgepig, we have a lady who sometimes visits our parkrun who regularly does the wimpole one.

Well done karatekimmi! Will be interested in your shoe experiences too :)

Yay well done kimmi!

How are your blisters today nightsky?

Even better, I was first in my age category!! The benefits of a small parkrun!! Yippee!!

I've been out walking in my moulded soles, they seem okay, but make me feel like my feet slob out more. I will go for a little run in them tomorrow and see how I get on.

Hello hedgepig

Hello I run at Wimpole S.Cambs , thanks for the welcome

Welcome Hedgepig :)

hedge welcome! Which parkrun are you doing?

Welcome Hedgepig!

Hello can I join? I'm just getting back into running after a bit of a lay off over the last few months with a bad back. My back is now ok, just my hip has started hurting now. I was down to about 31 mins for my park run in the summer and I'm now at 36 and a half . Ho hum it is a bit disheartening but I just need to get some miles in. It was very very muddy this morning.

I feel that generally dog walkers hae decreased since our parkrun started 42 weeks ago. The worst for me is if I run with one of my dogs and a random dog wants to say hello and I'm then trying to get passed and drag the dog past! We met my neighbour today who's dog I walked for a bit with mine when she broke her foot and he took her totally by surprise by running over to say hello! We have a man who is there walking most weeks and always on the opposite direction, I figure he likes it or he'd change his route or timings?!? .

I'm respectful to others but can't abide when you clearly move out of the way whether it's running or walking with dogs and/or children and people don't say thank you, really how hard is it? I've taken to loudly saying 'you're welcome' as it really p&@?es me off!!

karatekimmi I have the moulded insoles and really like them. My shoes are comfy without them but they are like slippers with them. I know they're expensive but I was told (by a friend that works there not just a salesperson) that they should last for 2 pairs of shoes and can be remoulded any time I like for free.

I didn't see her OhOne but a couple of my friends definitely did. She shouted at one directly and they heard her yelling about being a member of the public on another lap. One friend was tempted to yell back that we were members of the public too but was too out of breath I think :)

OhOne Its not just they greyhounds, there's loads of off-lead dogs roaming around. they don't seem to get excited and jumpy-uppy at all, they just get engrossed in following sniffs and don't look where they are going! Its very annoying.

I am scared of dogs, so off-leash greyhounds would terrify me.

We get a couple of crazy dog walkers too. There's a bloke with greyhounds off leads. Twice I've had my legs tangled around them and nearly fallen

This morning was difficult due to ice on the path. I had to run it on the grass and gave myself blisters on my arches. Was over a min slower this week due to fear of falling on the ice.

By the way, Blathers, did you see the determined crazy rude dog walker today? She was walking in the opposite direction to the runners shouting "I am a member of the public, you can see me, I have a right to be here"?

I keep telling DH that my mouth will get get me into trouble one of these days (I had a go at a cyclist for screeching up behind me the other day when I was running and there was a perfectly nice road out of the car park for him to cycle on instead of the path), but she had nothing on me