First parkrun in 6 months and a PB!

[Sigered]

I last ran my local park run back in October last year and my PB was just under 28 minutes. Since then I have been running 3 times a week round the local streets, on my own, not really bothering about going fast but concentrating more on increasing the distance. I was aware that I had slowed down and thought I wouldn’t be able to match my parkrun time again. 🐌

Fast forward to today, a lovely morning to get back in to the parkrun groove. South Woodham is a lovely out and back course along the River Crouch and very flat. I only went and knocked over a minute off my best time. Official time 26:33. Unfortunately Strava didn’t register it as my best 5k because it measured it just short. 🏃‍♂️

I would never have run this pace round the streets on my own. It just goes to show the magic of parkrun works wonders.

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Woohoo, well done, that’s a fabulous time! 👊👍👏😀

[Sigered Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Thanks. Next time I am going to make sure I run that extra 0.04km.

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10 in reply to Sigered]

It’s annoying when that happens isn’t it? 🙄🙄

[Deals1 Graduate10]

Great time!! Well done

[damienair Administrator]

Fantastic and many congratulations. We would have been running together. I got a new Parkrun PB too, 26:30 and just like you it was 4.99 km so did not register as a 5K PB on my Garmin watch. Well done.

Damien

[Biddy62 Graduate10]

Well done! Beautiful morning for a run and even better for a PB!

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

Well done on your PB. I have a Garmin watch that agrees 5k for parkrun but when it downloads to strava it says 4.9. What’s that about?

Just enjoy the parkrun results with PB against your name.

[Sigered Graduate10 in reply to Dexy5]

According to my Garmin I got to 4.98k. Not sure why there should be a difference once uploaded to Strava it’s all the same data. Not worth worrying about though, I’ll take the PB.