parkrun 2020 - all welcome !

I did a Parkrun sandwich with a bit extra again and by the time I got home every single item of clothing I was wearing was wet 🤣

Did my 5th parkrun today, and the only one I couldn’t run in its entirety... I have a hip flexor strain so did 4 minutes running to 2 minute walking. Even so, I was only 28 seconds off my personal best so not completely displeased with that - it was actually my second fastest time ever. Nice to see the progress, even though I’d rather run the whole thing!

It wasn’t actually too windy at all at ours, though it’s getting a bit wilder now - hope the weather wasn’t too blustery for everyone else!

In charge of monsters (4 and 1) and decided today would not instill a love of running in either.

Trying to get to 50 before I move in April. 5 to go so getting a bit tight!

Mine was on. Very wet, muddy, and blowy, but got round in a not-too-shoddy 21 mins.

Mine got cancelled :(

Did we all survive Storm Dennis? Lots of cancellations, especially in the south of the country. I was at a 250th event, small but v friendly. Wet and windy, my time was rubbish and I'm blaming Dennis the Menace. Bumped into a few old friends and I think I have managed to wangle a visit to a "not open to the public" event soon!

@DeepfriedPizza that is an amazing number of runs and volunteers

DeepFriedPizza I salute your organisation.

Had my first aborted attempt at a parkrun. Had it all planned - fencing competition more or less adjacent to a new parkrun and time before check in... so got up super early, arrived in time, started jogging to parkrun, realised tight calf was getting worse rather than better and abandoned the attempt. Very annoying!

Can I join in? I've done 76 runs and 73 volunteers. Trying to even them out so I can do number 100 for both on the same day as tailwalker. I was marshal on Saturday with DD (DD is 20 volunteers) then junior parkrun was cancelled yesterday so didn't get my volunteer credit...

Did my third one today at Hastings. It's an easy course, there and back along the seafront and although I'm still pretty much at the back I was over a minute faster than the last time I did it.

Just out of interest, how quickly did you all pick up speed?

We had record attendance at our junior parkrun - 80 runners! My DH was RD which was fab. We'd done some promotion at the local school so that really helped.

Ran Maidenhead on Sat as a tourist - haven't actually run parkrun myself for donkeys years since fucking up my knee then starting up our junior event, so it was really nice to jog round with friends and get reminded of how great parkrun is

I still haven't made it to parkrun with the DC combination of them being ill and the weather being rubbish. Hoping to persuade them soon as it looks like a lovely community to be a part of!

I got my purple shirt this week. I've only actually done 1 parkrun (which I walked rather than ran) then broke my foot but at determined to get back this year. I don't want to do one until I can run the whole thing so am working steadily through C25k at the moment in readiness.

I volunteered yesterday then did my own 5k in the evening. I enjoy being a marshall but it was very wet and cold.

One runner in Cardiff had a spectacular 01/02!

New women's world record: 15:49

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51348157

Was at an event's 200th, so there was cake! And the lord mayor ran with us!

My Garmin's battery died, and I was walking a fair bit up all them hills, I'd expected a time of around 40, so I was veyr pleased with a 35.

I walked my local parkrun yesterday. I was aiming to gently run around 35 mins as my RED run (I did 10miles a few days ago) but I ended up walking at a good steady pace chatting with a friend who's nursing an injury. I really enjoyed it!

Been tail walker at the juniors this morning. Another RED tick. It was a lovely morning for it. Fresh, fair weather and no painfully slow tiddlers shuffling along, just a nice steady walk. I like tailwalking on days like that! I'm guessing it's like that with the 5k, people are there of their own free-will and keep going.

The juniors can be a lottery if you have a little one in a changable mood/ motivation, or worse a pushy parent pushing them along when it's really time to concede that it's not the day and try again another time (especially if the weather is hard going that day). There was a horrid one last summer who kept nagging and cajoling and doing lots of pintrest motivational speaking, then got the go pro out to show daddy the video of how she was going and then stropped at the end of the lap because she'd quelled any bit of interest that the 4 year old had had at the start.

Mine are old enough to do juniors on their own and do their own pace. I just ask that they go out and try what's right for them that day. Occasionally they're not feeling the love and stop after one lap. They dabble with 5k now (currently on a winter break). They're just asked if they accept 1 lap= no result, and they tend to be fine with that choice. There's plenty of other parkruns if today is not the day.

I was at work yesterday. And I’m working again next Saturday. I’m busy most Saturdays in Feb it seems, but I’ve got to also volunteer at some point!!
I really like the winter course, the normal one is a bit of a trudgery.
I’ll do 5 k in a bit, I’ve got a bad cold and I’m feeling rough, but hopefully day nurse will kick in soon :)