parkrunners (AOWALC, #DFYB) Anonymous Keep on Going 5K at a time

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This is a continuation of the parkrunning thread where are all are welcome to chat about tourism, tee-shirts, PBs and everything else parkrun (and sometimes non-parkrun) related.

If you have been lurking on a previous thread now is the time to come out and say hello . Like parkrun we're very inclusive and always welcoming to new starters . And we love hearing about new courses we haven't been to

I was rd but one of the other rd's isn't running so I'm going to set up, brief volunteers, then run and do results afterwards. Enjoy your tourism FiftyNineOhEight!

Buoyed up by my speedy dash around Poole last weekend, I am back at my home run chasing a PB :)

happy birthday in advance. fiftynine

Thats great you can actually run cinnamon

Birthday parkrun and cake, what could be better?! Enjoy fiftynine. I might accidentally have booked a hotel for a quick break in the school holidays that was inadvertently two miles from Bushy. Don't know how that happened.

Good look tomorrow standing

I'm hoping to get close to my new PB but if this wind keeps up no chance.

Oh, have a lovely birthday run, fiftynine, and enjoy the new one next week!

Weather forecast here is a bit grim, so I'm preparing for cancellations. My plan is to run Falls. My home one is having a few pacers, and are going to try that on the last Saturday of each month.

happy birthday 59.
I am running at home, another slow one. I sprint (well, sprint for me) finished last week and my knee was not happy, so I have been running slowly this week, and I need to do the same tomorrow. At least it is a run.

I didn't read your post properly FiftyNineOhEight and was wondering how everyone knew it was your birthday . Have a lovely birthday and enjoy your tourism next week!!!!!

Happy Birthday Fifty

If anyone has worked out how to clone themselves then that would be REALLY handy this weekend. I've got one person wanting me at MK to celebrate her 100th run with her (I did her 50th too), a new fellow RD wanting me at MK so that I can be on hand for if anything goes wrong (considering that he helped me last time I was RD, I don't think I'd be much help if he couldn't work it out!), another friend wanting me in Aylesbury for a 50th run (or walk now since he's poorly) and the tourists wanting me to go to the new parkrun at March with them!!!

So I just need 2 spare Blathers if anyone can sort me out?

If not, I think I'm going to go with March. There will be lots of other RDs at Mk to help friend 2 (the ED always turns up for first events too and as I said, he probably know more than me!) and whichever of the friend's landmark runs I do, I'll feel guilty for missing the other. At least at March I let everyone down

Very excited to be posting the evening before the inaugural Tooting Common Parkrun! It's been a long time coming as our council have put up multiple barriers but it is finally happening tomorrow!!

Very exciting, hope all goes well, MrsHS!

Light dusting of snow here - keeping my eye on the Facebook pages but I won't be surprised by multiple cancellations.

It was fantastic thanks Melanie! A little bit emotional at the briefing and after the run as this really has been a long time coming. Seeing so many people running together outside a race situation was fantastic. It was a fairly fast one. I was 156th of only about 250 people and ran it in 28.36 which I was quite pleased with. I guess that is symptomatic of the first few weeks mostly attracting established runners.

I had a lovely morning as a marshall although our course is looking more like a tough mudder than a parkrun just now. I got splashed lots!

Yay, glad it went well!

I hmmed and haaed about going, and in the end decided nothing ventured. So - did Falls, PB and a sub 25 time! Mischief managed

Great to hear MrsH and must have been especially good after all the effort going into it.

Glad you both had good parkruns Melanie and really, that's a fantastic time Melanie you must be thrilled.

I had a great morning . Somehow I managed to knock over a minute off last weeks PB and came in sub 30. I really can't believe it after so many months. And it felt pretty comfortable.

Great time Melanie, I'd love to get under 25mins but am training for the London Marathon at the moment so it's all about plod pace and just making it round. I have a 10km race tomorrow so hoping that will be a sub-60 as the last one I did was a couple of years ago a few months after having DD2 so not a great time

We got rain but we had our biggest ever Saturday attendance with 110!!!!!! I ran in a pretty slow time but I enjoyed my run.

Lovely to hear about inaugurals MrsHarveySpectre did you enjoy yours blatherskite?

mrs Harvey I'm doing a 10k tomorrow too. The London Winter Run. I'm feeling quite nervous!!

Same one really! Good luck!

I'm doing a 10k too, round an outdoor folk and transport museum. Must go sort out what I'm wearing, it's an early start.

MrsH - brilliant to hear about Tooting inaugural, I've been following the campaign for a long time. Every inaugural is special but yours even more so.

59 - parkrun birthdays rock :)

Melanie and chutney - well done on sub-25 and sub-30

blathers - best option I think :)

cinnamon - glad you got to run and well done on 110 runners. We didn't quite top last week but had over 200 for the second week running.

We had a really late night as DS was singing at O2 with 7500 other primary school kids so we bowled up at parkrun to cheer in the last few runners, chat and eat doughnuts! Then we came home and dozed on the sofa :)

Anyone been to Forrest Pines? It's a new one in Sherwood Forest and as it is within walking distance of where we are staying next weekend it would be rude not to check it out :o

feet that run is at Sherwood pines country park. It will be a lovely run, know it well as near my parents - take the DC bike riding there. Nice tea shop, forest paths, good playgrounds - will definately visit. It is near Centre Parcs :)

After getting the parkrun bug back (winning my age category might have helped!) I am looking at a bit of parkrun tourism. Any suggestions pretty much anywhere (I travel for work/family a lot and open to an hour or so driving so opens up most of the country!)

We've not been to the parkrun at Sherwood Pines yet feet but it's on our to do list this year. DH did a 10k there last year, I think that was mostly twice round the parkrun route looking at the course and he thoroughly enjoyed it. Might not be an issue if you do walk but the car park machines are very temperamental if you're tight for time.

I've enjoyed Lanhydrock most lastqueen, also Poole, two ends of the spectrum on elevation! You'd be spoilt for choice round the East Midlands. I haven't done it yet but Abingdon looked good to me.

lastqueen - I'm biased, come and see us in Luton :)

From the ones we have done DS and I would also recommend - Tring, Panshanger, Wimpole, Bedford and Portrush

lego - thanks, sounds good. A big group of us are taking over the youth hostel for a friend's birthday w/e. I didn't book it but it seems that the parkrun is within walking distance so at least 4 of us will be doing it :o

Thank you for the lovely birthday wishes, I had a smashing day.

I tail ran yesterday, as has happened to me before the walkers I was accompanying at the back decided not to finish, so I had to run half a mile or so to catch up with the next last runner. I am glad I found her though, she was on the point of giving up but I keep her going to the end and she was so happy to finish - it was her first parkrun . She gave me a big hug at the end, one of our regulars came over to say she had a tear in her eye watching us come in together. But that's what parkrun's all about isn't it

Wimpole is indeed a special parkrun and I also like Panshanger. Huntingdon good, but muddy (have only done it in the winter). Cambridge is a nice course, has had pacers whenever I have been, but is pretty big and can get a bit congested. I enjoyed both Blickling and Sheringham on visits to Norfolk.

chutney congrats on your sub-30 PB! Is such a great feeling to get through that barrier isn't it . And as for you Melanie that's just brilliant!

MrsHS well done on getting your parkrun up and running. Hope the London 10K went well for you and rnms today - if it's the same route as last year it's where I do quite a lot of my weekday running.

Ugh, had a HORRIBLE 10k this morning. It was a 9.30 start, so we were meeting up at 8 (ie still dark) to travel the 15 mile there (3 from my running club)

Grounds were lovely - round the Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra, with stunning views over Belfast Lough. Weather just right - little bit of mizzle, no wind. And the loos were inside the Manor House, and absolutely spick and span, with hand cream an everything!

The route itself was killer hilly - nothing wrong with that, though it was unanticipated.

BUT

There was a 5 and 10k running simultaneously. And a loop in the middle. Cue much confusion over who should be going where, lots of people ran more than the 5 or 10, and some runners - very ungraciously - were losing their tempers with the poor marshalls. After all that, by the time I got to the goodie bag stand (I was WAAAAY over an hour), there were only large T shirts left (despite the fact that we'd ticked a size at entry), and they'd run out of medals! How????

So I cheered myself up with some parkrun statistics. My run yesterday takes me to 2nd in the age-cat records at Falls, I'm also 2nd at Valley, and still first at Colin Glen! Next week is Carrick (fancy dress, Dastardly and Muttley, appliance envy shots will be posted). I'm currently 6th in the age-cat there, let's see if I can claw up a place or two!