Parkrunners anonymous

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Hi everyone. I thought we could do with a new shiny thread.

All runners are welcome here :)

A massive well done to all runners this week. I managed to get out today and did 3.5 miles in 32 minutes. It made me feel slightly less guilty about missing parkrun on Saturday (although it is the first since August so not too bad).

Well done Iwish!

I got a parkrun pb but as that's the first time I've done that course it won't come up as pb and I probably shouldt compare as it was much flatter and much more path than foresty ground.

Happy new year to all!

Happy New Year parkrunners.

St Albans for me this morning. I stuck with my possibly still drunk friend all the way round so it won't be anywhere near a PB for me but we had fun anyway. A few of us took cake with us (any excuse!) and the organisers seemed a bit shocked :) It was a great way to start off 2014 and Janathon.

I did one this morning, with a friend running it for the first time and Ds. It was raining horizontally and the mud was ankle deep pretty much all round the course. It was huge fun. We were caked in mud up to the knees, all up our backs and Ds had it on his face

31.17 -ho hum!

I thought I might have been a bit quicker without the crowds, but I've only run once in the past 2 weeks (and that was on Monday) so I need to push on I guess.

Goals this year are to do Parkrun in 28 minutes and to get up to running 10k (both my goals) and my colleague who is an extremely good runner has challenged me to manage my 10k in 1 hour

Nowhere near PB for me, but as two of the three laps were uphill through ankle-deep mud I don't mind. At least we got out of our beds and ran!

I too doggy and she's really got the hang of it now, no stops at all. Felt guilty leaving the other doggy behind dh said he cried but I'm taking them both tomorrow.

Well done to all who ran!

I'd be very interested to read your blog blatherskite, would you be happy to post a link?

took doggy!

Well the same story here, very wet an muddy, second slowest time but more importantly my new shoes are muddy does the sweatshop 30 day return policy include just because they're muddy!!

kimmi!

Mine are in the washing machine - it has sports shoe programme

I would cry if my trainers looked like yours OhOneOhTwoOhThree!!!!!!! Not sure I'd be brave enough to put them in the washing machine.

I reckon they'd be very unreasonable not to include that karatekimmi

You can do anything to them and Sweatshop will take them back if you're not happy. Mud is fine.

I really struggled to write my blog this morning so I'm not sure that it's very interesting so far but I can message you a link if you like cinnamon? I rewrote it about 5 times and then just wrote something really simple. It's so hard when you're not in the mood

This is not their first trip through the machine cinnamon. I had my oldest, most beaten up ones on today

My trail shoes came back cleaner today than they went out! Yes, it was muddy but I last wore them to Glow in the Park which was much, much muddier so all the new mud did was washed away the old stuff :)

I needed trail shoes today

I went today and took my 2 young daughters for their first parkruns! My time was awful - but that's not what it was about today - so proud of them.

Going for my 50 T-shirt this year.

Happy New Year everyone.

Well done mini-hotmamas!

How many have you done hotmama? I'm on 30, hope to get my 50 by the summer

My New Year's Day run was 24 :)

How old are they hotmama? I took ds1 and we did it in 49mins and he said he was never ever ever ever doing that again!

NYD was 54 for me. Part of me is tempted to try for my 100 shirt this year but a more sensible part of me realises that I'd have to run on all but 6 weekends in the whole year to make that which is probably a bit excessive.

I'm going to try taking 6yo DS out for a run with me this weekend. He is absolutely desperate to do parkrun but I'm not sure he realises how far it is. I don't expect him to run it all straight away but when we marshalled, he winged and moaned about walking quickly to the spot we were stationed at at about 2k in. If he's going to do the same at parkrun, it would just be miserable for both of us.

On the other side of the coin, I'm running with a friends 7yo this weekend who does parkrun in about 28-30 minutes most weeks!

I've just registered! Hampstead Heath is my local. I've fallen out of running a bit over the winter (did a half marathon last Oct and also did a 10k with OhOneOhTwoOhThree, the one where you got that nn!) so I'm keen to get back to it.

Hey you. Liking the name change :)

Heellloooooo Yippee

BTW Yippee, did you see the thread about a MN 10K in the summer?

Not sure I'll be up to running tomorrow. I've got a sore throat, feel generally unwell and knackered and, rather oddly, my feet and ankles have swollen up like balloons. The skin is so tightly stretched it hurts to walk And I am plagued with cramp in my toes, arches, tops of feet, sides of ankle, shins, calves, etc. I cannot get comfy at all.

Ouch nightsky that sounds painful. Hope you feel better soon.

DH has just gleefully mentioned that it will be a wet one tomorrow