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Apr 2022
8:34am, 13 Apr 2022
4,869 posts
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Fenland Flier
Thanks GG, I feel much better this morning.
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Apr 2022
9:49am, 13 Apr 2022
5,201 posts
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steve45
Ugh to feeling rough FF but it looks like you're over it now. You're still flying!
There are five park runs near me and I've avoided them all ever since they began. One is huge (500 but down from 1000 pre covid) and one small (50). It's a great community as you say gg but very much like you I'll do my own 5k on a Saturday and be home before they start!
Short run again today after being tired yesterday.
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Apr 2022
10:16am, 13 Apr 2022
71 posts
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dobbers
Hmm - feels like I might be swimming against the tide here  I am a parkrun tourist - 108 different locations done from total of 180 runs. For me it is the variety - each venue is different in terms of terrain, size and feel. I use the parkrun each week as a kind of tempo run as my usual training runs are much longer and slower.
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Apr 2022
10:25am, 13 Apr 2022
4,871 posts
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Fenland Flier
Well done dobbers that is some good tourism. I haven't reached 100 runs yet but I need to do 3 more tourist parkruns so I can do my 100th at my own local also making it my 75th local parkrun. We've just had 2 people celebrate their 200th local parkrun and one of those is a frequent tourist.
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Apr 2022
10:27am, 13 Apr 2022
17,962 posts
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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
I didn't used to parkrun despite knowing the guys who started the York one quite well from work, and it starting within 1km of my front door! It always used to interfere with my longer run plans. (Sunday is church, so Saturdays had to be long run days.) I regularly used to see them coming round the first lap as I was getting home - and I didn't have enough energy to tack it on the end of my other run.
But then I started working part time and could move my long runs to a different days, and now - well parkrun is a nice weekly 5k "at pace" which helps sharpen up my overall speed as part of a longer training plan! And I do know quite a few people there too now.
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Apr 2022
12:14pm, 13 Apr 2022
7,318 posts
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hillstrider
Good to see that runners are beginning to return to parkruns in larger numbers.
This morning was a hill reps session, 6 reps with sprints on the flat gravel path at the top.
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Apr 2022
12:46pm, 13 Apr 2022
2,298 posts
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Looby Loo
3M we are in York in July and plan to do the parkrun there. Be nice to say hi if your there.
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Apr 2022
12:47pm, 13 Apr 2022
2,299 posts
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Looby Loo
Well done HS. I’ve had a horrid cold so missed running this week so far. Going to track tonight can bail out if not up to it.
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Apr 2022
2:01pm, 13 Apr 2022
910 posts
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Turkhish
Glad you feel much better FF..I have no excuse for Nil park runs.. no longer work on a Saturday and have many running friends who regularly attend Kettering and the surrounding park runs!
Steady 4 mile plod today, good little run and enjoyed it...nothing worse than a shitty cold LL..
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Apr 2022
2:07pm, 13 Apr 2022
2,301 posts
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Looby Loo
Dobbers I’m a late comer to the parkrun party. Although first one was 2011. Shift work meant I never got into the swing of them. Now I’m retired it’s no hardship to get up early in a Saturday to do them. We are trying to do as many as possible without using too much carbon. Last weekend we were visiting family and got to do a new one. We have loads of new ones later this year which are combined with travel plans.
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