Staying at the BiLs in the Bristol area. Jogged from his place to Ashton Court through the centre of Bristol. Fun course and easy on the eye, it’s basically an out and back up a sodding great hill. Typically on form and arrived about 20 seconds after they started so had fun working my way through the field. Enjoyed the plod back through town on the way back, quick coffee stop with a Cliff Bar just about saw me through - 28km in the bank 
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I made it to York, it’s basically the service path inside the course for ambulances etc,
Still a nagging wind that was in your face for about 3K. Slightly fast start, then dropped my jacket (I know 
) which probably cost a few seconds. Died a bit after 3K but still sneaked a 19:52. Felt like hard work though.
It has a big field of nearly 700 and there was actually a pride festival on as well. I finished 51st
Lots of achievements though including the letter Y 
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We used to live right by the Knavesmire.
There was no ParkRun there (or anywhere ) when we moved south in 1997 
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Brass Monkey might have been running then though?
Nice pun 
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Possibly.
I was a rower in those days, so I didn’t pay attention to running races. I ran around the racecourse occasionally, but usually if I ran it was to and from the rowing club in the city centre or around the city walls 
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PB’d at my local course today & took the W.
There was only one chap close to & we ran together for the first lap with me trying to get him to chat on the uphills 
. Not ran a lot recently but my bike miles probably helped me on a tough course, I’d probably get found out on a fast course.
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A glacial 28.40 for me with a loaded vest
Summary
I did run 28km first
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Nice! Do you think all that Sean Conwaying might have helped your running too?? 
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19:3something for me, ran the first 2km at 18:20ish pace, pulling round two people, stopped working at the hill, thinking I was feeling shit, so jog for a bit until someone catches me and then run harder with them. But no-one caught me, so 19:36.
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First run since running with @Adam, @Matthew_Spooner and @funkin back in November. It was my Dad’s 80th birthday so a celebration run at Bushy with him, my brother and my niece. An easy walk jog; it wasn’t the OAP who was holding the group up. 
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Was it a good time to bring up the condition of the VFR?
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Has anyone done the VI volunteer role at parkrun? It’s going spare this Saturday but I don’t know if you’re meant to be trained or something?
Did the local parkrun this morning, lovely weather, warm and calm. Legs felt dead in the warmup and unfortunately didn’t really improve.
Managed 19:45 so not a complete disaster but I was wearing the alpha’s to remember how they feel, not sure I’ll be taking them next week though, will stick with the next%
Finished 16th and a lot of the quick people were missing, got dropped by 3 in the last 250m
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Jogged around with LO in 24.42, need some legs for tomorrow.
We had a local lady doing her 500th today, even more impressive given that she’s also done over 150 volunteer stints. 
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Bit of tourism for me today with Faelledparken parkrun in Copenhagen. Nice and flat but all on a gravel path which made it a bit harder.
Nice laid back friendly run, fairly steady for about 21:25 which was 14th.
Hopefully not impacted tomorrow!
Anyway, another country ticked off and hoping to get one in Finland next week.
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I did that one in November 2019, it was just about my first run after having a hernia op, and after a pretty long break from running.
I’ve always wondered what it would have been like when I was fit, as very flat like you say. Couldn’t quite remember the surface, though probably wasn’t an issue the speed I was running then!
Today I did a 5km warmup, then set off very steady, tried to speed up a bit but found RPE was way higher than it should have been to just dip under 22.
Shame I wasn’t in form and lined up at the front today as YouTuber Ben Parkes was here. @JibberJim may have starred in his 20 min pacer bib?
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Let’s hope not, I was bit fast again, although the only guy who seemed to want pacing, I got to a 19:22 (on his watch), 19:51 for me, but the last hill I was pretty slow…
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I ran Burnham on my own, which felt weird not to have LO as my ‘wing girl’ there. I ran with the 24.0 pacer until just over half way then pressed on a bit for a 23.26.
Looks like LO ran a 25.50 at Winchester, slow for her but she would have stuck with Mrs FP, who was doing her 50th today.
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Ooh, 2/17 in my AG today!
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