Parkrunners anonymous

It's 16 runs since my PB now

Hello

Nice to find other ParkRunners.

Feeling a bit despondent today, did my 30th ParkRun and it's not getting any easier and I'm not getting any faster. I did C25K in the summer and have been going to ParkRun ever since but my time fluctuates between 33.30 and 37 minutes, today being a slow 36 minute run. I really hate it as I'm doing it too and feel like I'm struggling. I've tried doing a few short walking intervals but it doesn't make any difference so I do run the whole way, just slowly and miserably. I go every week. Why is it not getting any easier?

What mid week running do you recommend?

Hey slalomsuki, I am in the midlands! I run at the wolverhampton parkrun. Is that yours? Thanks for volunteering ( whichever parkrun it is! )

Thanks OneTwo, they look good.

Well done on everyone's run!

Got my time and was 7 seconds off a PB. Not bad considering how bad that headwind was ! There were points is was running with my head to the right cos I just couldn't breath it was blowing so bad! Lol

These Josh

You'll feel better by next week penny

Well done Coffee

So close cinnamon!

Hope you have warmed up mellie

suki thank you for volunteering!

Josh there is always next week. I googled "sneaker ties" to look for some elastic jobbies with a fastener which aren't supposed to come undone (I bought some for DS2 in the US last year) and got distracted by this instead

Melanie same applies here, along with cumulative sleep over the course of the week.

Had a reasonable run this morning - there's always 4 factors for me:

1. Weather conditions
2. Dog with me
3. Done enough training and strength work during the week
4. Not drunk too much on Friday night.

1 wasnt brilliant this mornong, but I coudl tick all the others, and recorded a 27:50, only a minute off my PB, and a good 2 minutes better than last week (when I could tick none of my 4 boxes....)

Did my run, over 1.45 slower than pb . Had to stop to tie my shoelace and really struggled.

Well done to you all today. I don't run but volunteer at one while my son runs, usually to hand out the tokens at the end but its the worst job as it has to be done gloveless..

Knackerelli you do happen to be in the midlands do you as the description of the 1st anniversary was similar to ours last week.

It rained at 10.30 here really heavily! I missed my pb by 2 seconds gutted!!! 28 done for me :)

Wow that was a very windy and freezing cold parkru this morning. Hope everyone enjoyed their runs n got the times they wanted

Windy, rainy & muddy in Glasgow Victoria but there was still a good turnout. Similar pace to last week but I'm working towards a sub 30. Should be there in a few weeks hopefully. I haven't been able to run in the evenings as much as I would like due to work being busy, but that should calm down soon so I can run more often. Really hoping I can make it to 50 parkruns by next March/April, I am hooked already!

It was dry, fresh morning for us, but with a bit of wind. I'm at the tailend of a cold came in around 30mins and DS was 27mins. I am struggling to get back to anywhere near my PB.

It was lovely here. No PB, but reasonably close. I'm quite pleased, because my knees and achilles were sore, and I had a late night last night.

Beautiful morning for a parkrun :)

Dry and brightish here

Sorry to hear so many park runs are cancelled.

Your training sounds good blatherskite. I like a bit of interval training, although mine hasn't started to have any impact on my times… yet.

Pretty sure that mine is on, weather looks nice again.

Bloody rain!!!

Our Parkrun is cancelled too. I haven't been for a few weeks & was looking forward to it.

Ours is hanging in the balance at the moment. It's looking runable for now but it's due to rain all night so it might be a different story in the morning.

Calf is good. Whatever my friend did, he's stopped my calf hurting but my knees feel like they're about to pop at all times now Hoping some more runs might help. Very tempted to pay £50 for another session to see if it'll fix my knees but money is a bit tight round here at the moment.

5k Improvers course is going well. Last week we did 8 x 400m sprints working from our 1 mile times from the first week so I needed to do mine in a consistent 1:54 pace which was slightly faster than my overall 1 mile pace. We got 2 minutes to rest in between. Would have been great had the wind not been blowing so hard. With the wind, I was going way too fast and into the wind, I was fighting to keep up. Totally failed to do my homework last week too. We're aiming for 3 runs a week and lengthening the longest run by 10% and doing squats, planks, calf raises etc too to strengthen our legs.

Ours is cancelled again tomorrow :( Mind you, I've got band rehearsal anyway so it'd be cutting it a bit fine, especially with all that mud to wash off.

Yeah, parkrun eve!

It's Telford's 1st birthday next Saturday not this Saturday and the fancy dress theme is valentines day. I have zero creativity so would welcome any ideas about what I could wear. I'll have a pushchair and a toddler if that helps!!