Sounds like there was some abusive language and contact at the other local parkrun today. I have a feeling it may have been one of the young guys from the local athletics club, who I think went en mass due to the National XC cancellation. The first finisher is unknown, but I saw the photos and he has some previous. Shouting “track” at parkrun tail walkers caused a bit of confusion
Sub-21 for me today having pretty much not run for 2 months and being told yesterday to only run easily for 4 mins at a time. Oops.
Eldest just about made it round his second one, but wasn’t happy from halfway. I was sent to go and get him an apple juice. He still managed a decent sprint finish for his ~50 minutes
Heading down for the eldest’s debut proper parkrun today. She’s always massively rejected it for some reason so we’ve not pushed it. But she’s seemed keen this week - a little less so this morning.
Fingers crossed she just settles in and enjoys herself.
Back on it after the spiky mammal incident last week with a bit of tourism. Even managed to get the GF out of bed by 7:20 with the lure of fish and chips at Whitby
Nice course on an old railway line with the first 2k on a gradual ascent with 2k on trail. Good view of the abbey in the distance on the way back.
Tried not to batter myself with the half marathon tomorrow and was a bit surprised to do 21:55
When they stop doing that, I might return.
As that’s an equal form of achievement to a sub-16. Removing personal statistics? My arse they ha have.
Results should be sorted alphabetically if they want to remove times - or just don’t publish results at all? Only a runner can see their time.
Randomise token allocation. Etc etc.
Yeah just don’t worry about the furore. Get what you want from it.
Beautiful blue skies and sunshine down here. Bitter wind though.
Eldest did great. She found the distance quite tricky and had her old man chattering constantly in her ear. But she stuck with it for a tad over 26. Very proud dad.
At risk of sounding like a total . But it was a very different experience to the few I’ve done so far. Sooo many people. And it took an age to get through the first 400m with road furniture and bottlenecks and people everywhere! Much easier off the front!
Crikey, from my home parkrun on Saturday, hope he’s alright.
Update from Saturday’s Incident. Official post
Apologies for the ‘radio silence’ so to speak since Saturday morning it was as per parkrun protocols when something serious happens.
As some of you may have witnessed on Saturday we had a runner collapse near the visitor centre/finish area which required first aid from parkrunners and emergency services. Below is an update for you all.
After finishing their run and being scanned a runner was talking, collapsed and went in to cardiac arrest. Luckily where he collapsed and the proximity of who was around him saved his life. Within 3 mins of collapse he had been assessed, and given a round of CPR, shocked by Defib and was luckily back with us.
The runner was taken to hospital and is expected to make a full recovery following some surgery this week.
I am not naming the runner and volunteers in this post. However after they have commented further posts will go up today
incident last week with a bit of tourism. Even managed to get the GF out of bed by 7:20 with the lure of fish and chips at Whitby 
. But it was a very different experience to the few I’ve done so far. Sooo many people. And it took an age to get through the first 400m with road furniture and bottlenecks and people everywhere! Much easier off the front! 
