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

Welcome runtoyou!

Well done karatekimmi!

Well Sheffield sounds like a better place for him than Norwich OhOneOhTwoOhThree, not great hiking in Norfolk

Oh thank goodness I've found you all. Couldn't get back onto MN when all the trouble kicked off as couldn't remember my password or the email I had used when I first registered (when I was pregnant with my nearly 10 yr parkrun buddy )

Will catch up later, need to do some work.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone :)

Hello feetheart.

Hiya Feet, were you over in Norn Irn?

I was, way back in August.
DS and I ran Portrush parkrun and DD volunteered as photographer. We were really lucky as the weather was great and more importantly the tide was just right so we got to run on reasonably solid sand. DS did get to parkrun through the waves though and we both got to go over their famous bridge

Are we still up for a Bushy trip? Thursday that was your venture wasn't it that all of us close enough decided we needed to do as well :)

Halle - go on, it would be great to have you do your 50th with us. I am RD on the 17th and DS and his friend are doing it on 24th. There will definitely be lots of cake on 17th as my club are aiming to do a takeover and I said they had to set the cake standard high :)

Bathers - looks like Rock Solid was a great success. We had too much on that we couldn't get out of to do it but will be looking out eagerly for future dates as I know DS will LOVE it.

A date for any localish parkrunners - DS is 10 on 7th November which is a parkrunday. It may be themed and there will definitely be cake

Hello parkrunning pals. I have heard great things about Rock Solid too blathersnwell done,

I am catching up on thread but exciting news...I got my fastest time so far this year at parkrun on Saturday. I am so pleased....but only you lot would understand .

Now going back to catch up on news...

Yay! lego!

Oops, hadn't read back sorry feet!

Yes I am travelling to the big smoke weekend after this one - so will be at Bushey on the 2nd

Welcome Run and welcome back feet and lego

Massive well done lego

Thank you cinnamon, he has survived Freshers' week so far and has agreed that parkrun can be a neutral venue (was that your idea chutney?) as long as he doesn't have any friends who also go

feet as you know I am always up for cake. I can't do 17th, but might be able to organise a posse for 24th .

Now, Bushey. I could either drive down the M1 and collect feet and Halle on my way, or we could have a train adventure on the Thameslink (although we would have to work out how to get to Bushey from St Pancras)

Ooh kimmi sorry to have missed your post! Congratulations you super-star

Well done standingonlego!

Feet the 24th we are now going to Oak Hill and 7th November we are doing Barclay. They only had 30 runner last week so we are aiming to take over....

ROCKSOLID was indeed a huge success last weekend. I'm still very about it all.

Planning starts soon for the next one now which will be in Exeter in March 2016. That's after I've worked at at least 3 other MK events in the interim. I've had a great day today doing bits for a 5 miler on Halloween weekend! No parkrun for me this weekend as I'm at a community fair thing talking about my running club. That'll be 6 weeks on the trot that I've not been for!! I'm getting withdrawal symptoms!

Blathers are you ok? I think you might be getting the shakes soon. Well done on Rocksolid.

Glad to hear it went well Blathers. There was much talk at work today about that sort of event, people were very keen. The discussion followed on from a degree of fairly unflattering amazement that I'd managed 10k before work this morning. Finally. I'd like to think it was due to the early start but I dont think so . I was chuffed though.

I will have to miss parkrun AGAIN as well, school car boot and I am helping to organise.
I have kept up the running though. Definitely going to be there next weekend!

Have a look at the parkrunUK Facebook page

Running across a bridge?

This bridge :-)

No, on the parkrun fb page....

Our bridge :)
It actually looks a lot narrower in the photo than it is.

Very picture-skew! And lovely portrush bridge photo too ( I don't remember it, maybe it's new, or else I blanked out the painfulness....)

Im doing a tactical parkrun tomorrow-looking at the times I've run local ones, I reckon I can beat my previous Victoria time, and get a morale boosting pb message. Vic is NI's busiest run, usually around 300 peeps, and they do good buns! I'm planning ahead for my own 100th buns, so ive done some trial ones to take along tomorrow.

( disclaimer: I don't bake. I've bought some iced fairy cakes from Asda, used ready made icing in piping tubes, and had a go at icing the parkrun symbol in green and black)

Hope the tactical run goes well today Melanie. I think icing is the hardest part of anything cake related, so I'm impressed!

I like that bridge photo. So that's Portrush is it?

I'm going to watch our run for the first time today and I'm looking forward to it. The kids are running a mini marathon tomorrow (and I have to trail around behind them). It's only 2.5 k but thought I'd give them a break and DH a chance to run on his own.

You'll really enjoy it whe you do get to it Steppe, keeping up the running is the main thing.

Good morning parkrunners (and spectators and volunteers )

chutney I think the bridge photo up there ^^ is Portrush, and the one on the parkrun UK FB page is Luton

Well done Blathers, although parkrun must be missing you!

The great thing about parkrun is there's always next week steppe

I am volunteering today just as well, I did yoga yesterday and the teacher focussed on feet and legs. It didn't hurt much at the time, but my calves were BURNING when I woke up this morning and my feet are a bit stiff. I have a HM tomorrow

Proud Mummy moment - DS1 (the one who started University last week) texted me last night to say he'd been out to recce his nearest parkrun. Whether or not he gets there is a different matter , but I must be doing something right!

Melanie can we have pictures of your iced buns please? I too am a rubbish baker, but am going to try to make feet's amazing fruit and nut flapjack for a post HM treat if I can find the recipe