Really great run this morning. Knocked a couple of minutes off my PB, which is amazing and terrifying in equal measure. I really enjoyed the run, very flat and entirely on hard paths so the road shoes were in full swing. The park is lovely, with woods and a river, and the course is only 1.5 laps, so the chance of being lapped is low, even for me.
Friendly group although no one was around until about 10 minutes to go. Before that a small group of us tourists were nervously eyeing each other up - this is where a distinctive apricot coloured parkrun t-shirt comes in handy to break the ice.
Now it’s going to take quite a run for me to better my PB!
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Congratulations on achieving a PB at Crane Park parkrun, sounds like a nice course to 🏃🏾 run. Nice running with a group of tourists wearing the apricot Parkrun T shirt.
Well done on that PB. I love the way you seem to do a different parkrun every week. Have you got a home run that you have done more than once?
I agree, the apricot shirts are great for showing that you’re a tourist. There seems to be a shortage of popular sizes so I’m glad I got mine as soon as the new design came out
I am doing pure tourism for my first 25 parkruns. So 25 different venues, no repeats. It’s a mini challenge I set myself to keep it fresh and just for fun. I am really enjoying finding new great parks that I would never have discovered otherwise.
I will settle on a few local ones after that, but will still travel when the opportunity presents.
That’s a fun challenge and good if you can travel to lots from where you live. although I have to say after doing some tourism over recent months it was nice to get back to my home parkrun and see the familiar faces of my own community and chase my friendly rivals again.
I think the apricot shirts are such a good idea for that very reason IACM. A great conversation starter - even if it begins with someone trying to read your chest first! 😅
Wow, great chunk of time off! Well done on your PB. I had that a couple of weeks ago - out of the blue nearly 2 minutes off my previous PB. Can’t see me replicating that any time soon. 🙄😀🏃♀️
Well done on your PB! 2 minutes! Wow!Congratulations! PBs are always worth celebrating. 😊🍾🥂🎉🏅👏🏻👍☀️ 💥⚡️ 🏃🏻🤸♂️🏃🏻🤸♂️🏃🏻🤸♂️ And 2 minutes seems like a massive improvement.
Do the apricot coloured parkrun t-shirts say tourist or visitor or some such thing?
You can order them with the name of your home venue, but mine is plain. It’s mainly that it’s such a distinctive colour that even if it’s just poking out from under a jacket, you immediately know "parkrunner”.
It doesn’t say tourist, over61, but they are recognised everywhere as tourist shirts and they have the name of your home parkrun printed on. It’s great to welcome new runners to your home parkrun.
2 minutes off, amazing! I did my most local park run yesterday for the first time, but am planning on alternating it with other runs that are within 25 miles just to test out what others are like! 😄
Crane Park parkrun is a nice little course. Glad you also liked it. When we did it, we also found nothing but tourists at first, and none of us were quite sure which side of the river to go for the start. All worked out ok though.
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5K - but no PB
Parkrun PB streak ended 
Yet another PB, Keswick Parkrun #15
New Year, new parkrun, new pb
