Parkrun 27/07

[JaoJao]

Are you parkrunning today? Should be a nice and cool one (maybe a bit wet). Good luck everyone!

[linda9389 Graduate10]

More volunteering for me - should be less muddy than running today! Go carefully 😀

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Hey Linda! Good morning, where are you volunteering? Xx

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

Black park this week. They're short of help over the summer holiday period 🙂

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Enjoy! Thats the first parkrun on my list when I start Parkrun touring 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

Well worth a visit 🙂

[Deals1 Graduate10]

Volunteering too 😁

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to Deals1]

Which role did you do?

[Deals1 Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

Barcode checker. If unable to scan writing em down. It was pouring down tho so had to move from usual spot into shelter as just couldnt write!! And I took some pictures.

Did u go?

[WC8334 Graduate10]

Just getting ready for the parkrun in Tredegar House in Newport. Wearing my posh parkrun running vest for the first time

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to WC8334]

Is that’s the apricot one?

[WC8334 Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

That’s the one

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate]

Have fun !

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Thank you!

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

I did! 🙋‍♀️

I picked Burnham on Sea today instead of my usual hilly Eastville or Ashton Court routes. Burnham has an elevation of 2m, which seemed more appealing that the hills after this hot week. 🥵

Lots of fun, massive turnout, but it was still mighty warm. I’ve worked out I don’t find flat courses that much easier - strange isn’t it? Maybe it’s the lack of downhills! 🤔

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Good on you for trying a different Parkrun! A change is as good as any.

[Debston Graduate10]

Very wet Parkrun at Bedgebury Pinetum this morning. So glad it wasn't a scorcher after the heatwave we've been having! But it was so rainy that I left my phone in the car as I was worried it would get too wet. It felt weird running "naked" with no tech to tell me how many kms I had done or how long it took. Weird and quite liberating! Just waiting for the results now, don't think it will be a PB for me due to having to slow down and pick my way through a few muddy bits. ☺

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to Debston]

I’m not sure I would be able to run naked! I like the idea but I’m too addicted to my stats right now x maybe the day I run naked will be the day I let go!

[Debston Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

Go on, I dare you to give it a go! 😂

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate in reply to JaoJao]

Running nekkie is pure joy!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

I got all set for park run today with only very light rain when I left the house which soon went off, however, when I got off the bus where the park run is the rain was lashing down, I only had a T-shirt, shorts and my running shoes on, I would have been drenched before I even got to the start and sadly just got the first bus home, better luck for me next Saturday.

[Debston Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

parkrun.org.uk/cancellations/ AlMorr check the cancellations for next Saturday, pretty sure your local one is on the list...

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Debston]

Thanks for that information Debston, I think there is a event in that park next Saturday.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

PS. There is no parkrun again for me next week because of a event in the park, to make up time for not running a parkrun for four weeks, from the 10th of August I will run a parkrun every Saturday for a few weeks instead of once a fortnight. 😊 🏃 . 😊 🏃

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to Debston]

That’s a good link thank you for sharing.

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

Oh no bad luck AlMorr, I’m sorry

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

No need to be sorry, next Saturday I will run a 5k near to where I live 😊 🏃.

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate in reply to AlMorr]

A park run is for life.... ? I am quite glad I love lone running

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

I have cycled most of my life alone, not all the runs alone, so as far as running, it's the same, nevertheless I enjoyed my first parkrun two weeks ago and am a little disappointed that there is a four week gap due to me not going last Saturday, today because of the rain and next Saturday because of a event in the park, never mind, I will make that up a bit by going for three weeks in a row from 10th August instead of every second Saturday.

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate in reply to AlMorr]

The runs will wait and you will enjoy them all the more xx

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Yes indeed Floss, 3 in a row will make up for those missed Saturday's. 😊 🏃

[Kevtrev Graduate10]

I’ve only gone and done it again My official time today is 31:40 position 80 a new PB 😀 YAY 😉🏃🏻‍♂️how did your run go JaoJao hope it was a good one x

[Debston Graduate10 in reply to Kevtrev]

Ooh, well done you, Kevtrev! I got a new pb today too, despite the rain and mud! Quite a bit slower than you though at 38:28. ☺

[Kevtrev Graduate10]

Thank you Debston I’m happy with that 😀 and well done to you too it doesn’t matter if it’s slower it’s the taking part that counts well done 👏x

[JaoJao Graduate10]

I haven’t received my official result today by text or email, but I was very close to my PB, 35:something!

Next few weeks going to be spent trying to hold the 35 mins finish comfortably. I was quite a ‘loud breather’ today, think agonal breathing! I was embarrassed of myself 😂😂.

[Debston Graduate10 in reply to JaoJao]

Ooh, so it might be another pb, maybe! Fingers crossed 🤞 Funny you say that about the breathing, mine is normally all over the place (and far too loud) but I have just realised that today I didn't have to think about it at all. So maybe that's progress! Or maybe I've just got used to sounding like a wheezing Darth Vader... 😂

[JaoJao Graduate10 in reply to Debston]

Haha, when there is nobody around me for miles I let it all out!

Just got my result through now, I was 4 seconds outside my PB, but that’s OK, I’m pleased with today’s result xx