I had arranged to go with my neighbour to my first ever parkrun. They dropped out last minute and I was 'uming and erming' should I go alone ? It's raining , my foot hurts a bit, my calves are tight, my stars are not aligned......insert cop out.
When I just decided , wowsers today is the day, I've had my porridge early, im fuelled up....carb ready. So I elected my poor hubby to get up and drive me.
Arrived at the parkrun, left husband with bacon roll and my gear in the cafe. Last minute decision, I gave him my phone and hence no MMR....I was going to free style.
Set off at the very back, after approx 30 seconds , was boiling and had to wrap sweater round waist.! It was drizzling and cold but I was steaming 😎.
It's a 3 lap course and I'm not going to lie, the 3rd lap was an effort...usually I run 5k in 40 to 45 mins so I wanted to do this faster today. I felt like I had...but was without a watch or phone. Collected my chip....all good went to pick up husband.
It was a tense wait for my time, but it came in at just over 35 minutes, I was well chuffed with that as a first time.
I think the sub 30 is within my grasp sometime in the future !
week3run1 ✅. 3 x 17 mins with 1 min walks. 
How did your parkrun or (not)parkrun go?
