Parkrunners Assemble - the new thread that will remind you to "do not forget barcode" and that "you can walk, jog, run or volunteers"

I was doing my 50 th different run, my 210th parkrun in total.

I chose a wee town that my mother lived in for a few years when she was a little girl.

I made cake! Waiting for the parkrun to post some photos that I can grab and put into my blog. I'm

How did everyone’s parkrun go yesterday?

I ran and volunteered. It was rather soggy and I struggled most of the way round so didn’t particularly enjoy. Luckily there was lots of cake afterwards to make up for the rubbish run.

Oh that’s lovely auntie Stella - what a nice touch - we had a nurses prayer and the reader was v emotional. ‘‘Twas grand

Lots of cake at ours today.

And a different call to line up at the start. Not as usual by wildly over optimistic self assessment of time, but all NHS staff at the front. Nice touch

New PB!! No children this morning and DH was a hero and paced me to 3221. So pleased - he was incredibly generous considering no small people meant he could have aimed for a decent time himself.

And I was dehydrated (need to drop Friday beers) and wearing pyjamas for the NHS theme

My local was encouraging NHS themed fancy dress, but I'm visiting relatives so will be touristing to one near them on Saturday and they don't seem to be doing that side of things - just encouraging NHS staff to attend. I think there was mention of bringing cake though, so not all bad!

Ah hello everyone, and welcome aboard, Mouse.

Is anyone dressing up for this week's NHS 70th cekebrations? I have my Call the Midwife outfit ready to go :-)

@givemushypeasachance yes I do have my barcode, just didn't know the official time yet when I posted . I do now - 35:42, when I first started c25k 10 weeks ago (graduated now) I was hoping I could do a parkrun in 40 minutes, so I'm happy with that

Well done all!

@TheMouseInMyPocket - had you not registered beforehand? If you do now then you'll have a barcode for scanning and tracking your runs/times in future. In the mean time you can look up the online results page for your local parkrun and it lists everyone's times - where people aren't registered it says "unknown" so if you know approximately when you finished you can look for an unknown runner listing and that's quite possibly you.

Did my first parkrun today (Lincoln)! Enjoyed it and will definitely be doing it again. Time somewhere around 35 minutes, forgot to stop my watch till after the barcode scanning so don't know exactly...

New pb under 40 minutes (by 2 seconds). Woo hoo (bearing in mind I am 50+ and never ran or jogged til few months ago!)

I ran significantly less this week. Less than half of the mileage of the previous week. And I felt much faster and more comfortable this morning for it.

Very belated catch up to this thread - I ended up touristing to Victoria Docks which was unlike any other parkrun I've been to. It does start and finish in a small community park area but it's very much a dockside run in a built-up area, couldn't get much less park-like! Perfectly flat and fast course though, I got a 5k strava PB that probably won't be beaten for a while given everywhere in my home town has hills. The volunteers were very nice and in fancy dress as superheros for Comic Con which was just getting started at the neighbouring Excel Centre.

Well done on the PB’s today.
I ended up volunteering as was unable to run unfortunately due to hurting myself during a race the night before. Feel like I’m not meant to hit the big 50!

On a plus I came home to my v25 tshirt

Well done goldopals - no run for me this morning - had to work :( but really looking forward to next week :)

Congrats, goldopals !

I equalled my PB today (which means I ran well, but I was surprised how frustrating it was for it not to 'count' IYSWIM)

Congrats goldopals! I knocked 34 seconds off my time today and achieved one of my personal goals so am on a bit of a high too. (Ditto no one remotely interested IRL, apart from DH who is away and DS2 who, to be fair, humoured me with a hug.)

Lotsofplanets one of my brothers often gets a PB when he's hungover! His theory is that it's something to do with a masochistic desire to punish himself.

Well done goldopals!

I felt very tired and slow today.

I forgot my phone so I didn't have my feedback every 500 metres. I've run this course 9 times so I don't necessarily need it, but I did miss it.

But I'm at least a minute and a half slower than last week.

I had a great run today and had to boast as no one IRL really cares. I managed to best my PB by forty seconds and ran the whole way without stopping to walk once for the first time. I only was able to do this because of another runner encouraging me!

No we don’t add them they always get refused.
If we check the data and find that it was a technical glitch and they did in fact have the barcode scanned then yes we will add them in to the system.

It’s time consuming and creates extra work if we added more people manually.
The day we had around 20 manuals recently (rain causing havoc) that I had to add into the system, the paper was disintegrating, hard to read etc only to have an issue and have to input them all a second time was not fun!

Ha I don't have a W yet, just A, C, E, P & R! I think I'm a bit early to be ruling places in or out of touristing unless I have a chance to bag one of the particularly rare letters. I've only done 23 runs in total so alphabet collecting is going to be a years long competition with myself. Tooting sounds very nice from the blog/run reports - they were highlighting some of the four-legged runners including one dog's birthday PB so that's bringing it up the contenders! I don't need to decide until the morning anyway.

When I need to get up super early for a 5am bus to London in order to be down there early enough I may regret my life choices - but then I'll have the rest of the day to chill out and do some other touristing stuff of a more relaxed nature...

Have you got a 'W'?

Another possibility would be to get the District Line tube from Victoria to Wimbledon, and then run on the Common (and see if there's a womble as tail walker)

Does anyone sane like hills?

Thanks @SquirmofEels - Clapham Common looked like a good contender, I didn't realise it was so new they've only done about nine or ten! I think may make it that one. Though if I'm giving it longterm consideration maybe I should pick a different one that'll count towards the alphabet since I've already got a C in the bag... I've only done five different events so far, quite a long way to go for that!

There aren't any Parkrun in very central London, but loads a bit further out. These two have very easy journeys from Victoria:

a) Hop on the train at Victoria and go to Herne Hill (make sure you get one of the ones that takes 10 mins, not a round-the-houses one which takes 30mins). Brockwell Park Parkrun starts about 5 mins walk from the station. If you like hills (on tarmac paths throughout)

b) Or tube southbound (Victoria Line to Stockwell, change to Northern for Clapham Common or Clapham South) as the Clapham Common Parkrun is

My local is cancelled next week due to an event being held in the park. I'm going to travel down to London for the day so intend to hit up a fairly central London event to tourist at - any particular suggestions? It can't be too far out, I'll have about an hour or so to make my way from Victoria station to wherever it's held...