Virtual parkrun

[damienair]

Hello everyone,

I put up a post earlier in the week about doing a virtual parkrun tomorrow morning. Just a solo 5K run in our locality. But we can pretend it’s a parkrun. And then post our little run reports over a post virtual parkrun breakfast, tea or coffee.

I look forward to hearing from you all tomorrow and catching up on the virtual parkruns. I’ll put up a little post in the morning and we can all then add to it.

Photo is from my last parkrun. My First parkrun in Northern Ireland.

Cheers,

Damien

[AliHC Graduate10]

That's great damienair 😎

[RunaroundSue Graduate10]

I'm planning to be there

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

I'm in Damien, tomorrow at 9.30 I will be running my 5th virtual 5K parkrun, incidently, tomorrow is my second runiversary on starting C25K with run 1 of week 1, it was the 18th April 2018.

[damienair Administrator in reply to AlMorr]

Fantastic. I think I started around this time of the year too 3 years ago. I can’t remember the start date but I graduated on the 22nd of June 2017. Happy running tomorrow.

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

Aw, well done to you. Is that within the university grounds? I went to Queens once upon a time ....

We must meet up when I’m next over 🏃🏃‍♀️🙂

[damienair Administrator in reply to Irishprincess]

Hello. Yes that was in the University Sports grounds in Belfast. I was working in Belfast on the Friday night so I was delighted to be able to do a Belfast parkrun and get a Q. My home parkrun is Navan, but I love to tour and run different courses. So would absolutely love to meet up when your home.

Damien

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

UpTheStanley will be virtually running with you damienair. I’ll accompany him on my bike and then knock up a nice brekkie. See you here in the morning.

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️👏🏻👏🏻

[Dexy5 Graduate10 in reply to Dexy5]

We will, of course, not be going along the parkrun route and will not start at 9 o’clock.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

What a great idea, we are running tomorrow and i’m hoping to keep going for 5k i might not out a time though as very very slow

[Coddfish Graduate10]

Hi Damienair. I don’t feel comfortable with doing this on Saturdays where I live and am not sure it’s right to encourage parkrunners to be running close to parkrun time particularly if their local routes would be anywhere near an actual parkrun route.

It may be different for others but my normal running area encompasses my local parkrun route. The police are closing off road access to the seafront at weekends, and it’s sometimes challenging to maintain social distancing on our running routes even outside the weekend. I also don’t want to bring any problems down onto parkrun by being out running anywhere near a parkrun course at anything close to parkrun time. I have therefore made a conscious decision to shift my run pattern around and am doing 5ks on Tuesday and a longer run on Thursday. I am getting a shorter run in on Sundays by going out early.

I’d be very comfortable with something encouraging a virtual parkrun provided the ‘rules’ are it should not to be completed on a Saturday morning! Plus it should probably specifically ask people not to run an actual parkrun course on a Saturday.

[damienair Administrator in reply to Coddfish]

I completely understand. I run a 5K route every second day which is within a 2K radius of my home. I leave my home on my own once every second day for 30 minutes to get exercise, which is a 5K run. I’m following the advice here in Ireland to the letter of the law. All I’m doing differently this morning is running the exact same 5K route I do every second day completely on my own and pretending it’s a parkrun. It’s also raining this morning so social distancing will be very easy.

Damien

[Drumandbass123 Graduate10]

Hi Damien

Plan on running my virtual 5 k around 10 👍🏻 I will update a time 👍🏻😀

[TailChaser Graduate10]

Hi Damien! What a fab idea! It’s absolutely throwing it down outside so we may do a GMT parkrun at 10am. We have an alternative parkrun day look that we use so we don’t have to go to the park but it may be fairly empty in this weather. We have run out of bacon though, so no tradition post parkrun bacon rolls for us today.

Have a lovely run, ‘see’ you later.

Kat family

[damienair Administrator in reply to TailChaser]

Fantastic. I look forward to the post run report.

[Teresa1632 Graduate10]

We will all have virtual park run PBs! I run in the countryside near Lough Neagh. The only thing I encounter is the Lough Neagh fly...they refuse to stay in their own lane 🤣🤣

[Hidden]

Brilliant damienair! Super photo too. I don’t do park runs as such , obviously

especially now of course. However the run I did this morning and posted ...would that count as a virtual park run?🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️even though it’s not Saturday but Sunday ?🤣🤣

[damienair Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Absolutely. 5K anytime could be a virtual parkrun. Anytime, any place.

Damien

[Hidden in reply to damienair]

Thanks damienair ! Have a safe week🤗🤗