Consolidation run 6, and park run 2

[MartinKH]

I had my second Park run today, in a different place to last week. Today’s park run is one of the newest in the UK, Itchen Valley Country Park. A beautiful rural setting, quite hilly in places and especially muddy this week for about 80 % of the course.

It was so slippy that at one or two stages, everyone had to either slow right down or walk to avoid falling. My time this week was 36 mins 5 secs, over 5 minutes slower compared to my PB last week 🤣. At the end I was chatting with a few very experienced runners, one of them said this this was his 119th different park run and his toughest so far due to the hills but especially the amount of mud. The mud was so deep in places that I felt that my trainers 👟 would be sucked off several times.

This week though was all about getting around and getting through it. Really impressed with everyone checking fellow runners were ok if they were walking or struggling.

Happy running all 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️👍

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

You look so clean🤣🤣 sounds a tough run but you did it 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🥳

[MartinKH Graduate10 in reply to Buddy34]

Thanks Buddy34, yes her indoors (rightly) wouldn’t let me indoors until I had hosed myself down outdoors 🤣

Well done on your park run today too 👍

[Debston Graduate10]

Well done, running through lots of mud is really tough, your muddy legs have had a good workout! My local Parkrun only has one muddy section and it's always fun to see how people tackle it. I've started just ploughing through to just get it over with but there's always the fear of leaving a shoe behind!

[MartinKH Graduate10 in reply to Debston]

Thank you Debston. Yes it does feel like my legs have had a good work out.

Good plan I think to plough through the middle of muddy patches.

I was initially running around the edges, where possible, but was still getting caked in mud and soaking wet.....so after a while I just ran through the middle too.

[pete1212 Graduate10]

Well done on your park run MartinKH happy running

[MartinKH Graduate10 in reply to pete1212]

Thanks very much Pete1212, and very well done to you too on your park run.

[Wenderwoo]

Excellent, well done! 😁

[MartinKH Graduate10]

Thank you very much Wenderwoo, despite (or maybe because of) all the mud I felt 10 foot tall after finishing.

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Fantastic effort, and what a course that must have been, did they not hose you all down at the end? Well done. 🤗

[MartinKH Graduate10]

Thank you very much Grannyhugs.

That's a good question, there was a hose to use after finishing but the queue to use it was huge. I was cycling today to/from the park run, so not getting the inside of any car muddy.

[Granspeed Graduate10]

Phew. Good time in all that. Glad you have an outside hosing station or you might have spent time in the doghouse! 😄

[MartinKH Graduate10]

😄😄Quite right.

We'll see what the rest of the day brings, I could still end up in the doghouse 😄😄

[mom24uk]

Wasn't it only a couple of weeks ago that you graduated and now you're smashing tough parkruns! 👏It sounds like you were with a lovely bunch of runners too.

[MartinKH Graduate10]

That’s right mom24uk, I graduated on 28 Feb. A lot of water under the bridge since then, it should I say more miles in the legs ?🤣

I know you’re close to graduation 👩‍🎓 yourself. Keep up the great work, and I reckon you’d love parkrun too.