That is some quality front end of the field. Wowsers.
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The middle isn’t bad, sub-20 only good enough for 332nd!
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I just sorted the event results by number of finishers and there’s clearly a mid-June smackdown each year.
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Had a great run at my local today - results say 19:51 which is my quickest time since September last year. We’re off to Bushy next week to see some friends so I may need to give it a hard effort and see how I get on.
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First lick of exercise in 3wks for me today. Was worried about my ribs but they held up ok. I did however, get that breathing issue again. Shuffled the first 4km with Mrs FP and walked the last km for a 33.46
LO ran a 24.22, which felt ’ pretty easy’ apparently 
I don’t know what this breathing thing is. It feels like I’ve eaten 2kg of peanuts, that kind of feeling. Of course, being out of shape and the size of a bloody whale could be a reason, but let’s pretend it’s something else. 
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Wowsers
fastest M50-54 16m40, and even that wasn’t fast enough to beat the first 10 year old 
70 people 15m59 or better
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19m29- edit no- 19m26 at Taunton today. Felt ok but still a way off 18m59 or better which is target for the year. Need to pull the socks up & make a plan before summer over.
I reckon could knock a few seconds off for a road course, but even so got to make a plan to find them extra seconds soon.
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Tourist trail today at Barnard Castle, yeah that one fairly new event.
Nice location but the run is just about 3 laps around a meadow which could do with a cut. XC spikes would probably be best in winter.
Got a 25 later so planned to go steady but the first K was slightly faster than planned as I tried to get a bit of space, it was a small field though.
Was hanging around in about fifth when I rolled my left ankle again 
that was bloody painful and as I hobbled for a bit 3 people went past, mostly jogged it home from there in 23:50. Not one I’d rush back to.
One more towards completing the NE region, except another new one started today
Car park was at a decent location 
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That place is crying out for a jet wash 
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I plodded around Winchester with Mrs FP for a 30.30.
LO went 24.10
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I seem to have lost the ability to look up AGs in the results. The mail gave LO’s position in her AG, but the AG themselves are missing. 
I think they’re having technical issues. The results in the app were missing data and icons.
Thankfully it was an overcast one for us, but still bloody warm with a double buggy, and wearing a standard cotton t shirt probably wasn’t the wisest choice (wanted to avoid extra washing, so used what I’d slept in).
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Went out a little too hard at Bushy parkrun this morning - hung in for dear life and got an official time of 19:43 (watch said 19:38).
After the first minute my watch said I was at 5:43 miling pace (about 17:45 overall time!). The first mile or so are where most of these “bests” came from.
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Bowes Museum?
Right next door to Barnard Castle school on the way in from the A66
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Yes, just on the outskirts of town. A few years since we’ve been into Bowes itself.
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Went to Street with my mate Craig today, I don’t really like the course, it’s too contrived. Craig was recovering from injury, so we jogged it in for a 30.03 just chatting, which made it a whole lot better.
Meanwhile in Winchester, LO ran an easy 24.05 and Mrs FP ran a 30.30
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We’ve just run our 300’th ZugDIYParkRun - since October 2020 we’ve held the run without fail at 9am every saturday and every 1 Jan. Coincidentally at the 300th run, we had our 400th new runner, collectively we have run 23,525km
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Jogged around at very hot and humid Winchester course with Mrs FP. Walked the last 400mtrs, which I planned to anyway because of tomorrow’s ‘race’. Did feel a slight tightening in the left calf but hit it with the massage gun when i got home, so 
I think it was a 31:xx and LO ran. a very pedestrian 25;40 but she’s had a big week of competition.
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At worden park today
Ran with my HYROX buddy ( we had a plan he had a targeted 5k tomorrow were he’s hoping to get near 20 mins)
Went at 4:15 kms all the way but started T the back ?!?
Official time 21:29 real time ( press watch as we passed start 21:03 )
It’s a crappy course but ok in the dry and quite scenic
72% age grading
1 st 55-60 ! lol
Enjoyed it
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Bet you were passing people the whole way round with that strategy? 
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