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swittle
swittle
Jun 2021
11:26am, 9 Jun 2021
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swittle
[winderful is a word I shall include in my run descriptions :) ]
Akie
Akie
Jun 2021
1:27pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Akie
My wettest was Marple parkrun, didnt have enough grip on my trail shoes for the very slippy wet fields. Resulted in me slide tackling a course marker on the second lap and the RD taking a picture of me cos I was so covered in mud.
One Thousand Odd Spiders
One Thousand Odd Spiders
Jun 2021
1:37pm, 9 Jun 2021
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One Thousand Odd Spiders
Ha, mine too, on a very rainy day, I discovered that no, my trail shoes weren't actually in the boot after all.. That was a fun one :)
Kanajlo
Kanajlo
Jun 2021
3:52pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Kanajlo
Talking of fun in the wrong shoes.

In January last year my brother needed some help picking something up from somewhere out east (West Cambridgeshire I think) I agreed on the condition that we stopped at a parkrun en-route. As we were travelling it became obvious we would not make the target parkrun on time so we diverted to Rugby.

Rugby is a nice simple two laps around a playing field, with a muddy great hill hidden behind some trees - and I turned up there in brand new road shoes. It was quite slippy.
Curly45
Curly45
Jun 2021
4:42pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Curly45
Someone slipped over at the start of Killerton when I was there despite wearing trail shoes. The bottom half of the course was basically a lake (that isn't normally there).

I've just checked out the photos on Flickr and it has grass in the summer and everything 😂😂
Rrunner
Rrunner
Jun 2021
5:07pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Rrunner
Got me thinking about my wettest parkrun. It's either this at Centre Vale:



Or Witton parkrun in October but no pic exists to show that.

There were ducks in the puddles at Centre Vale from memory!
Gobi
Gobi
Jun 2021
6:16pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Gobi
Sure I have got wet at parkrun many times but as I don't like rain I block them out

Gobi
Gobi
Jun 2021
6:22pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Gobi
Or the 13 laps of hell course we invented at Eastleigh

BK brighter days ahead
BK brighter days ahead
Jun 2021
7:01pm, 9 Jun 2021
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BK brighter days ahead

The day we dug a 2.5km single file trench around Norman Park Bromley
BK brighter days ahead
BK brighter days ahead
Jun 2021
7:01pm, 9 Jun 2021
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BK brighter days ahead

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