Parkrun video (and health warning)

[ArthurJG]

A lot of people are asking about parkrun so I thought I'd share a video of my local one but it comes with a health warning: the guy who made the video is seriously fast so you don't see all the slow runners and walkers behind him.

By coincidence, these two guys (who are doing every parkrun in Scotland this year - quite a challenge!) turned up at my very first parkrun - you can see me at the beginning paying big attention to the briefing because I'm a newbie, but you don't see me again because I took 40 minutes to go round and walked part of it.

So, if you promise not to be put off by his speed, the video will perhaps give you a feel for how friendly and easygoing (and well organised) a parkrun is, and perhaps encourage you to give it a go.

The video is at youtube.com/watch?v=nwXNMW6...(Not working as expected?)

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Great video, notice a sign 'caution rabbits' just hope no rabbits tripped anyone up during their runs. The times you ran on the various park-runs on that list at 6.23 on the video are very good, all sub 25 minutes, that time is a dream to most people here starting their C25K running journey, the best I can hope for is around 35 minutes, yet to do that.

[ArthurJG Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

No that wasn't me! I ran 39'13" that day (well I walked part of it as I was only on week 8 at the time) and today I got a PB of 31'55". The guy who made the video is a serious serious runner with lots of experience, not a recent C25k graduate like me

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ArthurJG]

Thank you for your quick reply Arthur, like you I am Scottish, graduated on the 18th June with run 3 of week 9 along the promenade at Helensburgh with a pace of 07.05km, the distance at 4.2km. After the 5/30 minute post graduation runs, I was hoping to complete the 5k journey in about 35 minutes at about the same pace as those altogether 8/30 minute runs but I got a sore hip about 8 hours after run 8. The soreness is completely gone but I'll do a repeat of each run of the program for recovery purposes every other day and hopefully very soon be able to complete 5k in around 35/39 minutes.

[ArthurJG Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

As for the rabbits - wee bit of humour as they have adapted a standard parkrun sign 'caution runners' to say 'caution rabbits' but it's not the rabbits themselves but the rabbit holes - one or two places on the route you have to watch where you put your feet so you don't end up like Alice in Wonderland.

[SarahOReilly Graduate]

That was great... really lovely to watch... it does get you geared up for the Parkruns. I'm on w8r2... and recently signed up to Parkruns in readiness.

Thanks Sarah