Turned up at parkrun today to find it was cancelled due to firework display tonight, So the son and I decided to do the route anyway. 2 laps of the park . The 25 year old on his second run ever set off to get his sub 30. Me was hoping to beat my 5k Pb of 34.40.
On my billy , no music, no audio book , just my thoughts I was doing ok. Looking like I was gonna get close to my 34. When about 3.5km in a Mum was running with her daughter. Her daughter was struggling , she was about 10 ish. I said morning . Asked if they were good and kept running . She asked me , I said “ I ll be better when this is done” in my usual jokey way .
And then it happened. I heard the woman say to her daughter.
“ See it is tough. People find it hard but you have to keep on going like that lady is. She is finding it hard but she is still giving it her all . That’s what we need to do. “
That touched me. Yes I was finding it tough . Yes I was still giving it my all. Yes I kept going. And I smashed my PB with a 32 minute 5km.
Thank you lady and little girl 😁😁😁😁
Ps son did it in 26 !!!
week3run1 ✅. 3 x 17 mins with 1 min walks. 
How did your parkrun or (not)parkrun go?
week 2 begins! 
