parkrun 2020 - all welcome !

Well done to your son. My daughter is at 6, fell out of love with running after 50 junior runs but is getting back into it.

I posted that I was trying to get sub 30 on a tricky course...smashed it at 28.56 swore at my husband a lot but I am delighted

Thank you. It is currently saying "you will be able to claim your T-Shirt soon". I'll await further developments!

Congratulations to your son!

If he goes into his "parkrun profile" and checks "club progress" you can see how far along the T shirt process is. For a while it was quite delayed, but I think they've sorted that out now.

Doesn't matter which one you ran at.

I'm hoping someone can advise me! My son ran his 10th parkrun on Saturday (he'd not been for a while, but decided he wanted to do 29th February!) He is now eligible for his 10 T-Shirt, I've not had an email with a link to claim the T-Shirt. Do I need to do anything? Does it make any difference that we were not at our "home" run? I don't know what the timescale for these things is! Thank you wise parkrunners!

This is an all male prison, but some of the staff are female.
6 laps of the central area!
No mobile phones.

How does that work @SegregateMumBev ?
I’ve ever only seen prisons in movies. How many laps of what to make 5k?
And was it a men prison or a female one?
I’m really sorry if I’m asking stupid questions, I just can’t picture it at all.

Each prison is different, but there’s usually someone you have to contact personally. They may need to check your ID, or have someone vouch for you. Some of them have a waiting list that you can apply to be on.

Mine got cancelled :(

How does one arrange to do a prison parkrun? I thought it was only ambassadors and those connected with the institution who were invited in?

Very wet today - despite a once in 48 years opportunity to parkrun on a Leap Day, our numbers were well down. The puddles got larger during the run - second lap has a short section completely covered by water. Splish splash splosh!

Brrrrr that was a cold one! Had a very interesting experience doing my first parkrun inside a prison. it's so good to see this initiative for physical and mental health, as well as giving inmates something to look forward to when they get out.

Well done on your PB! Dh is going to come with me on Saturday so he can get me a sub 30 on this course. It's really frustrating as my PB on a flat course is 26.17 but I can't get sub 30 on this one!

I smashed my park run PB yesterday knocking almost a minute of my previous best that's stood since last summer!!

Helped massively by a pacer shouting at me and a friend hanging back to sprint finish me over the line

Was working yesterday so no Parkrun, but volunteered at juniors today. It was very windy and freezing, so we only had a handful of children. Lovely bike ride home though with the wind at my back and the sun having come out!

I didn’t manage my sub 30 but still got a course best. The wind and snow was blowing me back down the hills. Junior parkrun was on so I did timekeeping. I’m now at 78 runs and 75 volunteers

Made it (ish) - my barcode didn't - as I left it in the bag with warm hats etc for DC. Was supposed to be "hard" according to my plan and managed approx 32 minutes in a hailstorm so not too bad. Would definitely not want to be walking in this weather. Brrr

I did my first parkrun today! I’ve done some running before but always by myself and not at all since October last year. I was a bit worried it would be intimidating or that I’d be last but it was so supportive and friendly. I managed 33 minutes 40 which I was rather pleased about especially considering we were running into the wind for a lot of it! Will definitely go back.

Escaped lightly in that London today, bit of a breeze but no rain and quite mild. Couldn’t stay around for “park faffing” as I had a plane to catch, but I met quite a few parkrun tourists and global tourists, as well as spotting a 500 shirt!

I did it too! But blimey, that wind is ferocious!!! Was against it most of the course and it felt like my lungs were balloons on CPAP, could hardly exhale!
Loved it though, and I joined the others for a coffee afterwards, had a nice chat, it was great. Currently soaking in the bath :)
Have a nice Saturday everyone and we’ll done!

Home parkrun for me today.

Slightly unusual to just run it. I'm usually in hi-viz when I'm there (I did a lot of tourism in the past year!)

Steady parkrun for me today, in very windy conditions. Course was flooded so had to be re-routed. Was still 2nd lady though, so chuffed with that. Racing tomorrow -eek!

Off to be parkrun tourists today!

Things are not looking good for this weekend either flooding everywhere

Both my nearest parkruns were cancelled on Saturday and the junior was cancelled on Sunday as well, so no Parkruns this weekend. At this rate I won't get to do any runs this month and a max of two volunteers at the junior.

Hubby did it this week as his running club were all doing the same one for some championship. I was at home with DD, she is old enough to come a long and hang about in the play park herself etc but not in this weather.
Junior parkrun was cancelled again

I have plans to do our local most difficult one this Saturday. I have high hopes to get under 30 mins at this one this year (pb is 30.54 at this one vs 26.17 at local flat one) so fingers crossed I achieve it