Bar codes at the ready, parkrunners anonymous keep going 5K at a time

[OhOneOhTwoOhThree]

New thread for park runners old and new. Who's running at home and away this weekend? Who's volunteering?

Nice run this morning - 28:17 which is still some way off best, but I operate on a "under 30 good, under 29 great!" mantra.

Planning to try Ormeau next week - future tourism includes Crane Park on 1 November, and Perth on 8 November.

fucking awful run today (sorry for language)

back of left knee felt 'iffy' after Thursday's run onmy own. Today I got 20 paces in and it seezed up totally

I'll be off to physio asap this coming week,but i'm guessing its going to be 3 weeks rest minimum

Oh dear nightsky, that's not good. But try to keep a long term view - a few weeks rehab will stand you in great stead for years to come.

Some great running, but sorry to hear about your knee nightsky

I had a plod around this morning, still can't break 30 mins or get anywhere near my PB (mid 27's). But I beat everyone who stayed in bed this morning

Sorry to hear that thenightsky!

We had record turn it yesterday, I was 63rd and previous best was 62 :)

They are starting a new parkrun in Hertford / Welwyn way (Panshanger). The first one is 11th October but the pilot one is 5th October at 2pm.

I can't make either but thought I would post the info on.

Hmm interesting, my dad lives in Waltham cross.

Cinnamon are you from there originally? Back in the day I used to go to the Odeon there and we used to go to Pizza Hut afterwards .

There is also one in Waltham Abbey.

Yes but I moved away in 1988 when my mum left my dad when I was 7 so didn't really hang around there as a teen. My dad's still in the house they bought in the early 70's :)

That was definitely pre-teen for me though I might be a few years older than you.....

well physio thinks my injury is due to a very tight hamstring which has got damaged at the knee end. Had long session of ultrasound and massage and been told not to run until I see him again next week

Oooo, we might be able to do an inaugural parkrun. Missed Chichester by a few weeks (think we ran week 3)

Oh no the nightsky, at least you know the problem and it can be fixed!

Those who have 50 t-shirts roughly how long did you wait for them? super impatient I know

Hello all, newbie here. I'm not ready for a 5k park run yet but I'm working up to it. I don't think I'm a natural distance runner, I think I prefer sprints and intervals but I want some kind of challenge. I am in the fortunate position of having a park run very nearby but I've been too scared to go this far, hence the 'building up' to it.

Does anyone know if it's possible not to have one's real name on the website? I'm in the kind of job where people google me and I don't want it coming up.

hello pseudo
I imagine you could have any name you liked-I would use my middle name+married name if I didn't want to be found

When I registered one of my DCs I accidentally put their last name first but it doesn't seem to matter.
cinnamon I am still waiting for my red shirt-have you ordered yours? Our RD said lots of people don't realise that they need to

I ordered mine as soon as I got the email on Saturday OhOneOhTwoOhThree!

Welcome pseudonymity, no one checks any ID so you could put whatever you like as a name I'm sure. Go along and give it a go even if you don't think you can run the whole lot you can run/walk it and then have something to aim for :)

Is there not still a stop on t-shirt deliveries? They put them all on hold on couple of weeks ago while they tried to sort out the system and as far as I know, it's not started up again yet.

Women's come faster than men's usually. I waited 3 or 4 weeks for mine I think. I ordered mine as soon as I got home as I had a tip off from the ED that he was doing an order that afternoon so to get in quick :)

A friend of mine ran while registered as Jenny Talls (say it out loud) for ages so you definitely don't have to have your real name. I've not seen any obvious pseudonyms though so I'd stick to something fairly normal looking. First name + middle name seems to be the vogue for teacher friends of mine at the moment.

cinnamon so did I

And me :)

I have just seen on our parkrun page that they have just had some r shirts arrive (alas not mine ) so they are being despatched

They sent a newsletter the last week of aug I think Blatherskite that they were back dispatching them. They said they had 1000 men's to fulfil the 600 they need plus stock but some women's sizes are still low :(

Well done on your 50th cinnamon, cake looked lovely too :)
I've not been around for a bit, password problems.
I don't know if any of you know from mfp or elsewhere, but my lovely dh (who joined in c25k with me when I was doing that because of a mn thread nearly 3 years ago) died in July. He had done 21 parkruns and his last was a pb. He came and supported me more often than running. We got a mention on the parkrun show in August, both my brothers and my nephew ran parkrun with me the day after the funeral.
My local parkrun community has been really supportive.

I'm off work now, it was such a sudden death, I am finding it hard to come to terms with.

jchocchip we haven't met before but that sounds tough. Hope all is as well as it can be.

eeek....am doing my very first parkrun on Saturday!

I'm going to be horribly slow - am averaging about 43 minutes in the gym and on runs outside. Sigh. Please tell me I won't be the very last person to finish...?

I'm hoping that running with others will speed me up a bit - I started the C25K programme in June, finished a few weeks ago but pretty much all in the gym so I've never run with other people..!