Hello Everyone. Today is parkrun day, a free 5K event which takes place every Saturday morning all around the world. It is for everyone, slow, fast, able, disabled, big, small and everyone in between. Oh and don't forget about the super Mum's and Dad's who push their babies in buggies. You can walk, jog, run, run/walk, it's not a race, just a run in the park and loads of us here on Bridge to 10K do it religiously every Saturday morning.
Some of us may not be able to do a parkrun at the moment so until parkrun returns fully for everyone some of us will continue to take part on our own in a Virtual parkrun every Saturday morning called a (not)parkrun. Or if you are away on Holidays, prefer to run on your own, or do not have a parkrun close by you a (not)parkrun is perfect, please feel free to join in. Please post a little run report after your parkrun or (not)parkrun and let everyone know how you got on. The little run report can be done over a post parkrun coffee and treat/cake. (parkrun is all about the after run coffee and cake, and meeting friends old and new).
If you are a new graduate and would like to start, all you have to do is run, walk or jog at a parkrun or a 5K run/jog/walk (not)parkrun anytime today or tomorrow and write a little run report under this post. It's like a little community and it is good fun, sets you up nicely for the weekend. If you want to you can register on the parkrun website and you can log your 5K (not)parkrun. In fact you can log any 5K done during the week as a (not)parkrun.
For anyone whom has not done a real parkrun yet and if it is available to you, give it a try. It is the most wonderful community event. Saturday mornings will never be the same again.
Looking forward to hearing from all of you who ran in real proper parkruns and (not)parkruns. Happy running and have a lovely weekend.
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Hello everyone. Sorry I’m late posting today. Been a crazy morning. I did my parkrun today at my home course in Navan. I also decided to bring my Cocker Spaniel Ruby with me. It was breezy but lovely and bright. We ran nice and comfortable and finished in a time of 28:50. Ruby ran well on the lead and probably ran her best time on the lead. I left straight after, got home shower, threw my two boys into the car and drove to a Forrest zip line course. Hope you all had a great parkrun morning.
Good afternoon Damien, glad you enjoyed your parkrun with Ruby this morning, all the 4's for me today at Palacerigg Country parkrun, for the first time ever I was a parkWALKER, I was walking along with the tailwalker and a few other walkers too, time:-1:04:04.
It's a one lap trail course so the fastest running don't lap the slower runners or walkers, so that's 19 volunteer duties I have done, perhaps not too long until I get the 25 volunteer T Shirt,
Tomorrow I am a marshall once again at Palacerigg, this time it's a 10K trail race on behalf of the charity Childline.
Well done Al. I ran this morning in my Purple V25 T-Shirt. I wear it with pride. I’m taking a break from volunteering this year as I am trying to do 50 parkruns this year on my 50th year on this planet.
Thanks for the thread damienair …sounds like you’ve had a super morning. How close is Ruby to earning a milestone collar/lead 🤣? I think there could be an untapped market there…
I’ve been to Eastville Park and enjoyed myself. I had to drop off my husband in central Bristol early this morning otherwise I doubt I’d have ventured out. I’m really glad that I did! I’m still recovering from covid and haven’t run since last week’s parkrun. Still feeling heavy and slow, but I was pleased to finish three minutes faster and a lot more comfortable than last week. I’m taking that as progress!
I’ve forgotten how much I love a really rainy run. Nothing like it to make you feel like a total hero! It took a while, but I’ve finally dried out!
No parkrun for me today for the second week on the trot - last week at Center Parcs, this week family staying over. However I did manage 2 hilly 8ks at Longleat, an 11k earlier this week and a steady non-parkrun 5k yesterday, so I can't complain! Happy running one and all😃
We spent yesterday in New Lanark, had a lovely meal in the New Lanark Hotel and stayed overnight in the car park, with 5 other vans. We met the occupants of one at Lanark Moor parkrun. Very nice course but a bit tougher than I expected, followed by breakfast at the Inn on the Loch.
I would hate to be the marshal at the second to last position - as we walked past to the Inn there was a very strong smell of bacon Imagine standing there until the Tailwalker passes.
We are now at Scone, continuing our journey north.
It’s Portsmouth Victorious Festival weekend so our 500th parkrun had a festival theme, cakes , a singer with guitar and bunting along the funnel. You never know how many people are likely to turn up to chase a 500, or how many festival attendees might want to do parkrun as well, so as token queen, I made up extra tokens to cover 800 runners! The weather fairies were not on our side and it was raining from the time we left home at 8.00 to well after we finished our lunch. Coddfish was timekeeping, Mr C barcode scanning, Oldgirlruns and I handing out finish tokens and UpTheStanley on number checking. Any festival fancy dress worn by us volunteers was well and truly covered by waterproof jackets and over trousers but I did have diamanté on my cheeks which seemed to stay on well. Lots of runners were showing off bright clothing, beach shirts , flowers in hair etc.
One man who used to be a regular Southsea parkrunner, but had a stroke this year, wanted to attend 500 and he walked the route in 1 hr 45 mins, wearing a parkwalker vest, In true parkrun style, the funnel was still there and he got cheered on by all the volunteers. How many turned up today? Just 310. Probably due to weather, people avoiding festival traffic and escaping Portsmouth for the weekend. Not to mention run 999 at bushey today.
Only c1800 at Bushy. I heard they were expecting 4000 😱 Maybe next week? They’ve got more funnel managers than we have volunteers next week 😂
Congratulations on the Southsea 500th Dexy! Sounds like it was a HU takeover! Love the way we both did finish tokens today. There’s quite a lot of pressure on it when you’ve done the previous week’s token sorting, isn’t there? 😬
You exemplified the spirit of parkrun with your final finisher 🥰
I was umming and ahhing about whether to run today as I was very stiff last night and I’ve a long run tomorrow. As it was, I was still stiff when I woke up, so I volunteered. It was throwing it down this morning, so I was glad to be turned down for a marshal point and had the distraction of finish tokens. Never done them before and it was quite easy with my very experienced companion. Considering it’s a bank holiday, we were 100 down compared to last week thanks to the weather. It did make it a nice quiet post run coffee with Shake-and-run afterwards though.
Hopefully a yoga session, a hydration tablet and a bit of rollering will ease me up for tomorrow 🤞 Have a great week all 👏👏👏
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Imagine standing there until the Tailwalker passes.
