How did your parkrun or (not)parkrun go?

[damienair]

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 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.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.

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10]

No parkrun for me today-I’ve got a 10k event tomorrow. We’ve finally for a bit of sunshine so go out for a notparkwalk later!

Happy parkrun day parkrunners, park walkers and volunteers!

[DiogoC Graduate10]

On this rainy October Saturday, I came to Morden parkrun. Before Battersea (finally) opened last week, this was London’s newest parkrun. Today was event 16. All the volunteers were lovely and it felt like a very nice community, even though it’s a very new event.

I couldn’t run this week due to an injury and would have been happy to sit this one out, but my friend who is also trying to do every parkrun in London, told me he was coming. The parkrun is close enough to me, so I thought I’d join too and ended up volunteering as a park walker. This would also get me a time, as well as a volunteer credit 😜

I’m glad I didn’t actually run it in the end. The course is very undulating/hilly and, due to the fact it’s mostly on grass and the recent wet weather, it was very muddy and slippy. Everyone managed to pull through and nobody slipped, which is always a nice thing.

Morden parkrun

[JonathanP Graduate10 in reply to DiogoC]

Well done for volunteering DiogoC👏

[damienair Administrator]

This morning I decided to take a break from parkrun touring and instead ran at my home parkrun in Navan. It was a beautiful calm Autumn morning and there was a little bit of a buzz as there was a team there from LIDL setting up a stall. LIDL sponsor parkrun in Ireland and they travel around the country every Saturday morning visiting different parkrun courses. It was Navan’s turn today.

My Wife had been sick during the week and our Cocker Spaniel did not get as much exercise as she would normally get so I took her with me. It was a little busier at the start line and after the pre run briefing from Susan we were off. I loved this run, I relaxed, chatted to people I had not seen in many weeks as we ran along. I even complimented one lady called Kathleen on her lovely new parkrun Brooks runners. Ruby and I finished in a nice relaxed time of 31:33 and we were in 77th place out of 146 runner and walkers.

After I scanned the barcodes Ruby and I went over for a look at the LIDL stand. There were apples, bananas, energy bars, protein bars and bottles of water. There was also some lovely tray bakes which a few people had brought along. So I had a lovely tray bake and a banana and some water and Ruby enjoyed a piece of an apple turnover. This was my 199th parkrun. I’m going to do my 200th parkrun next week at an inaugural event with my friend Ida. Happy running everyone.

[JonathanP Graduate10 in reply to damienair]

Sometimes there's no place like home Damien! Enjoy your 200th next week.

[Tessie66 Graduate10]

Went to my local parkrun this morning Shroggs Park Halifax, Started off a wet morning then became dry it's a tough course, had a great time last week but a minute slower this week. Well done to all volunteers and runners/walker's

[RunaroundSue Graduate10]

Not too muddy today (by Marple standards), but lots of puddles. I enjoyed it, although my hips were aching a bit for the first half kilometre after cleaning out our campervan and a spot of gardening yesterday. But once I got going I had a steady pace, passing a couple of people I often run/walk with.We were told about a new Winter course which has been approved. It will be 3 laps to avoid the worst of the mud. They need to get the signage ready,then they can deploy it as necessary.

I should be scanning the juniors tomorrow, weather permitting - we are all keeping an eye on the storm heading this way.

[00marks Graduate10]

Parkrun #123 for me. I was running and then after I finished helping out with barcode scanning. It was a wet one. When I arrived it was raining. I went for a warm up around the course just to see what it was like. There were quite a few puddles. By the time the run started the rain had eased off but the course had got quite a bit worse. The puddles had quickly grown to cover the whole path so there was no way of navigating around them. But I finished, very wet with soaked feet. I'm glad I did it though.

[TailChaser Graduate10]

Good afternoon Damien and all,

Soggy Stratford today. Typically, it brightened up just as we started to pack away.

Probably shouldn’t have run, what with DOMS from Thursday’s strength workout and tomorrow’s race, but hopefully a bit of rollering will sort it out.

It was drizzly rain for most of the run and my legs had no power. I did the pre event check, so I knew exactly what to expect, and I did enjoy running through the puddles. When I got cut up by some big bloke who blanked me, I made sure I overtook him again and then jumped in the biggest puddle in front of him. I think he got the message as he was nicer the next time he overtook me 😁 Don’t mess with the Kats 🤣

Eldest kitten also ran today. He doesn’t run often but he’s taken 5 minutes off his previous time so he is very happy. He’s just got to keep going 🤞

No after coffee with Shake-and-run as she and Mr S&R had visitors but she brought me some very interesting fig jam back from France, so I’ll be trying that out later 😋

Have a great week everyone, I may timekeep next week as I’ve just signed up to a race on Sunday 🥳💪👏💪🥳

[JonathanP Graduate10 in reply to TailChaser]

If you mess with them once you never do it again TC!😨

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

Good afternoon Damien, I was a marshall at Springburn parkrun this morning, weather was very nice and sunny, one of the runners thanked me and shouted, "look over there", I saw a roe deer, now Springburn park is a city park in Glasgow, not a country park like Palacerigg so it was a surprise seeing a roe deer there.

In the afternoon I ran 12K, instead of on Sunday as tomorrow storm Ashley is due to cause a lot of havoc including the cancellation of The Great South Run in Portsmouth.