New Year’s Day Birthday Parkrun

Did my first ever parkrun this morning as a birthday present to myself. Had to be dragged out of bed by the husband as I had really gone off the idea at 6:30am 😆 But we got there in time and I actually really enjoyed it 😊 Everyone was very friendly and it was a lovely atmosphere.

My Garmin didn’t start at the start line 🙄 and it only recorded 4.10k so my Garmin time is 26:39 but my ‘official time’ was 33.02, so I’ll take that one as a win 🤣

Thanks for everyone’s advice and help.

Happy new year to you all!

[Coddfish Graduate10]

Glad it went ok

[Hidden in reply to Coddfish]

Thanks codfish. Thanks for all the help

[Oldgirlruns Graduate10]

I thought you might enjoy it! You realise it’s now compulsory on a Saturday if you can?!😂

[Hidden in reply to Oldgirlruns]

Oh no 🙈 If I could I probably would 🤣 I’ve already told the husband I want to do it again before the kids weekend activities re-start

[Vegout25]

Happy New Year 🥳 to you too 👍😊

[Hidden in reply to Vegout25]

Cheers 🥂 Hope you’ve enjoyed

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Happy birthday and great run. Happy new year

[Hidden in reply to Grannyhugs]

Thanks very much! Happy new year to you 🥳

[RunningMigster]

Happy birthday and a happy new year!

Glad you enjoyed it. I trust there will be more celebrations to come! 🍾🍾🍾🍾

[Hidden in reply to RunningMigster]

Thanks and thank you for all your help! I’ve had a great day 🥂

[RunningMigster in reply to Hidden]

Yay 🥂🥂🥂

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

We are strange us runners. Only people like us would give ourselves a birthday present parkrun.

Happy birthday and happy New year hope you've had a great day 😊🍾🎂🎂

[Hidden in reply to Buddy34]

I know 🥂We’re strange creatures 😂

Thanks Buddy. I’ve had a lovely day 🙌🏼 Hope you’ve had a good one

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Yay, so glad you enjoyed it Rhedeg. We told you you would, didn’t we?! 👍👏👏 Great time too. I always start my Garmin when they say go, as I start at the back with my dog and it makes the PR official time slightly more accurate in comparison - but not very! I don’t care. 😅

Happy birthday and Happy 2020. 😀🎉🏃‍♀️

[Hidden in reply to cheekychipmunks]

You did and you were all right... of course 🙈 Thank you 😊

[Jazzyrunner Graduate10]

Fab! Well done - brilliant time too 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Happy birthday and happy new year! 🥂

[Hidden in reply to Jazzyrunner]

Thanks very much 😊

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Well done Rhedeg - hope you manage to fit some more in!👍😀

[Hidden in reply to JonathanP]

Thank you! Me too 😊

[Granspeed Graduate10]

Happy Birthday. Lovely start to the year, and a great time. 🎉👍🥂

[Hidden in reply to Granspeed]

Thank you 😊

[Leosmit Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Wow! That is fantastic! Well done for completing. Has your husband said “I was right” yet??!

[Hidden in reply to Leosmit]

Not in so many words Leosmit 🤣

Thank you 😊

[Rowers Graduate10]

Great stuff!

[Hidden in reply to Rowers]

Thank you

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

Well done and I hope you enjoy many more. I always click my garmin on during the walk down to parkrun so it can find the gps. It then finds it quicker when you switch it on to standby during the briefing.

I start mine when I cross the start line as I only want the running time. But others do it from go so they can check it with the parkrun time. The choice is yours.

It is difficult when you have children doing different activities at weekends but I hope you can get there occasionally. Or take the kids to junior parkrun so they learn to like it too.

[Hidden in reply to Dexy5]

That’s a really good tip, thank you. I’ll try that next time. I think I’m going to go again on Saturday 😬 Very excited 😊