Did my usual today and turned up marginally late, running through a big crowd. Legs felt heavy leaving my house and weren’t having any of it but loosened up and started to feel ok, managed to get progressively faster. Sun was shining too, bonus!
Easy turbo later after my five year olds birthday party
I was there this morning, thought I’d do a brick in case I actually do a triathlon this season.
Along side the roll call were a lot of awkward announcements about how we must all the respectful to the volunteers, other park users and each other. Obviously triggered by something from last week. These type of announcements seem to be getting more common, not sure if it’s just because there are more people running, so the number of thoughtless people has also increased, or if behaviour is getting worse.
Chill out people, it’s a 5k social. If you want to race there are plenty of fast courses where you can pin a number on and people will applaud you for going fast.
Not condoning bad behaviour but if you don’t want people running fast don’t record times. It’s not a crime to be ‘not slow’, although Parkrun seems to be heading that way.
So there were 3 of us at one event, and I’m unquestionably the slowest of all of us!
I actually am very snotty with a cold and coughing and sneezing, so I actually was intending to go even easier than I recently have been - which has not been fast - otherwise I’m sure I would’ve made @buzz overtake me after the first corner. But I still hated the crowds of people ahead of me so despite going very slow to that first corner and as I say being far behind @BadAsh I overtook the crowd to get some clear air and then only took at easy as I always do up the hill (even when I am running hard, I still run the hill slower than the people I finish with)
Run was fine, I even ran the last 100m hard to give a couple of guys who seemed to chasing 20min the incentive of a hare.
But on the way home, I tripped, have hurt my ribs, smashed up phone and thumb, so that was crap…
I gather one of the incidents last week was because a youngster sprinted off and ended up finishing about 20s in front of the Dad (in sub-22). When the RD caught up with them and mentioned the within arms length rule the Dad rather aggressively kicked off.
It is a tricky one, my mother in law was volunteering at junior parkrun and my son, who wasn’t running, went and stood next to her with a dog. The RD had a go at her as no dogs are permitted at all at the junior events. It was also unfortunately the week a parkrun regional ambassador had turned up.
LO and I pretty much do that every parkrun. The caveat is that we only ever visit two and they both know us well. If I was asked to stop her doing I would (because that’s a shed load easier than trying to catch up with her 
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It’s only ever the last 200mtrs or so.
Sorry to hear that, hope you heal up quickly @JibberJim ! You did a top job pacing 20 
Nice pacing @buzz looked like you worked through the field well while most of us were fading.
That sounds like the RD is overstepping the mark there. So the dog wasn’t running in their event but just in the park? They couldn’t possibly stop you from doing that.
While it sounds heavy handed, I’m sure they have the rule for a reason and whatever the rights and wrongs you shouldn’t have a go at the volunteers.
Working through seems to be my default these days, mostly because I can’t start as fast as everyone else. Leader was long gone before I got towards the front pack, and he just kept extending, but the group fell apart on the climb so it was solo 2nd lap.
One funny story is that I’m on the volunteer email list. We had a new volunteer co-ordinator once and I put down that LO and I would do TailWalker (we have a requirement for two).
They asked how old LO was and I replied ‘9’, they said she could not do TailWalker with me, even if they had another Tail Walker because of concerns that LO wouldn’t make around the course and I’d be forced to leave.
At that time LO was running approx 23.30 for 5km
Mrs FP ran a 26.30, LO sprinted ahead for a 26.05 and I walked/hobbled around in 45.30. Tried a little jog but the impact was quite painful on the skin of my knee, also the bruising is coming out more now.
I think that was my 97th. Hope I can put in a good show for my 100th.
I just did the local one, couldn’t decide whether to go or not as I wasn’t really feeling it, pretty steady 22:10’ish in the end.
Leg was a bit tight as well so cut the longer run down just to be careful.
Not me but the parkrun tourist bloke I know went to Inis Meain today 
If you aren’t up on this then think Craggy island off Galway 
next stop is America
It starts at 11am so people can either get the ferry or a plane there!
Edit: depending on the curvature of earth, next stop might be Canada, but you get my drift 
If you get the drift, next stop could be Iceland 
Greenland 
What an arrogant cock the PR CEO is
‘This is our party, like it or leave it?’
yep
All a bit CTT isn’t it.
The opt-in for results and stats or public profile like Strava seems like a good solution but they’re clearly not democratic.
I can see myself losing interest before long so one less person to volunteer at times.
There are 100 others waiting to replace you 