Parkrunners anonymous keep on running

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As the last thread was filling up, here's a nice new one for parkrunners old and new

All parkrunners are welcome here!

Morning lizzylou. Well done you on your first parkrun of the year. :) Midweek practice will soon have you below 30 minutes.

It is a lovely sunny morning here. Don't know why I am on mumsnet when I could be going for a run! I dived back into c25k at week 5 and also have runkeeper nagging me. It is still hard to get out on a Wednesday or Thursday though and keep regretting that come Saturday.

jchoc, I hope so
I am waiting for Dh to get back from a cycle before I can get to the gym, am running outdoors Mon/tues this week, then hopefully Friday. Need to work on jellybelly today!

I'm back

Lanhydrock parkrun is tough! Thursday must be fit to do that every week!

No parkrun-run for me next week as I'm doing my RD shadowing instead! I'm more nervous about that than I am about my half marathon on Friday!

Just reporting back after last weeks moan about 5yo DD going on parkrun strike and driving me to tears.

Me and 7yo DS went on our own yesterday and he did a smashing job coming in under 35 mins. No moaning from him at all and I happily walked with him on the couple of uphill stretches that were a bit beyond his little legs .

lizzy I've only done one parkrun on my own so far and achieved a decent 30:36 for that one. It's constantly niggling me that if I could just get there on my own every week I'd manage a sub-30 before long.

Well done parkrunners!

Back on the treadmill for me today rather than risk getting lost in Manchester. It felt quite odd after three weeks of only running outside.

Meglet, sounds like you'd whoop 30 in no time
I am very much built for comfort, not for speed and have always been the same, I got my time down from 33.30 to 30.26 last year, hoping for improvement this year
Just done 5km this morning and managed a bit of a sprint finish (by my standards) and it is feeling easier and more enjoyable every time I run, so can only keep on trying!

Anyone else having Easter eggs at their parkrun this Saturday?

No but I am shadowing Rd this week so there could be

How are you giving them out?

We are putting them around the route (not too hidden) but them we only have 30-40 runners and up to 10 Juniors. As long as the juniors get one each everyone else will have to fight it out :)

Who's paying for them?

We had 503 runners the week before last so it could get expensive!

We had Easter eggs last week as spot prizes because it was our 1st anniversary. Not sure if we're doing any special this week but I'm itching to get back running! Hoping for a PB as they've changed the course and it's much faster and flatter now. If I run instead of pissing about with my Garmin and MP3 player then I should be able to beat 29.40 or whatever it was.

There are 6 RD's and we all chipped in for birthday cakes, balloons etc so will do the same. It will be 2/3 of the egg hunt boxes I think, just waiting for confirmation of details we're very organised . I'm not rding this week so don't want to step on toes!

Eau - I should come and do your again now that it is flatter

Yes, you should! Let me know when you're coming. The cafe does nice cake if anyone else fancies a trip to Huntingdon.

Article from the local paper about our parkrun

That's a lovely article. Our local one has never been in the paper, too many dodgy things going on so there's no space

I really like that article too, it sums up the spirit of park run, not elitist or competitive. Tracy sounds like such a typical parkrunner and a good advert - middle aged working mum, obviously not your typical " sporty " type, yet she lost loads of weight , has kept it off , is staying fit and having fun. 6 stone is a SERIOUS amount of weight for a woman to lose, much respect to her

Came across this and it made me chuckle so thought I'd share! mytightswontstayup.com/running/

Love that Knackerelli

Love it! Can that really have been published?!?

and Knackerelli

Hope your HM is going well Blathers

Looking forward to parkrun tomorrow

Is it tomorrow you're shadowing as RD blatherskite?

Yes, that's tomorrow.

Me and the lady I'm shadowing both really pushed ourselves at the half marathon today so I think limping around at parkrun might be as much as we can manage anyway :)

Hope park run goes well today blathers

I'm really looking forward to parkrun today. Not going last week really got my weekend off on the wrong foot.
Apparently they've resurfaced the flood damaged bit near to river, so hopefully it'll feel less treacherous today!
Sun is shining, it's a beautiful day