Hot potato 
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Iām just just going to say ā¦ wow!!!
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Thatās brilliant FP, huge congratulations to your LO 
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Strewth !
Were does that put her in the age grading thingy ?!
You get a %?
I think ?
Great running
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Thanks Anna, sheās very happy by the sound of it, I called her.
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Thanks, it gives her 75.43%
She was 4th female overall!
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Brilliant .. plus she is 100% going to get faster ( unlike most of this site Iām guessing !)
My running mate got 79.76 or some bollix today
Heās after 80!
lol
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Iāve just read that this (Yee running with his Grandpa at Bromley ParkRun) will be on the BBC tomorrow on Breakfast Time, and in the London marathon coverage
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Oi
Dont rub it in.
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yer he did Norman Park on Saturday , running as a Crystal Palace Triathlete 
he didnāt run well though as he went a bit below pb in 55mins, but would have still just about beaten me 
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2 hours 45 in.
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Caught it on TV this morning
Grandad was doing his 368th Parkrun age 93 - great to see
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There was a bloke at Hartlepool on Saturday who was 84, did something like 26:xx for an 88% age grade which is the highest at that event.
Although I do know a lady who has been in the 90ās
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Did you ever know Arthur Puckrin? Thought about brining him up last week when there was talk of decas, guessed you might through the Tri club.
For everyone else, this guy was a local tri legend.
I used to swim with him (well, in the same pool) and would love his stories when I was a kid. Was still doing decas in his 70s and competitive, think he became the only person to complete two decas in the same year. Would see him running round town when I left morning training and still going when we drove back for evening training. Very much slow and steady wins the race.
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he was the original Deca King, back when no one did them and it was a crazy event in Mexico. They became quite āmainstreamā , well as much as a 10/14day event could once Enduroman and Brutal started running them annually.
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Yes, I knew Arthur quite well, just kept going and was actually a very good cyclist. Saw him regularly at the pool, heād be there for hours going up and down.
Him and Dick Hatfield did some of our races, Dick was from the swimming family of the same name and at the middle distance race would accidentally measure the swim course quite long to get a better head start 
His stories of hallucinations during the events and using duct tape and superglue on his Achilles probably arenāt medically approved!
He did actually release a book which I think I got a very brief mention in 
He lived in Norton so also saw him doing his long walks.
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Probably more appropriate elsewhere, but since heās been talked about in here recently thought this was worth posting.
Couldnāt get the whole thing on the screen but the photo for the event was when Ali carried Jonny over the line.
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Burnham for us today. LO left me for dead almost from the off, I had nothing at all. She ended up with a 22.28, 3rd female and 36/270 overall.
I went 24.08 which gave me 3/17 in 55-59, weirdly would have only been good good enough for 4th in 60-64!
Mrs FP went 28.22 and 2/11 in her AG.
So it was just me letting the side down this week. Lovely and sunny but windy AF!
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Has the generational crossover officially occured do you think?
Over 5km at least?
Or could you still draw on experience and sneaky tricks to pip her if you had to?
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Iām starting to think it genuinely has, at least if I carry on doing what Iām doing. I think I can hang with her on a good day for me but her āgood daysā are just becoming more and more regular now.
Work has been particularly bad this week, so I hadnāt run a step since Mon night but even so, without a concentrated effort on shorter stuff, I think the crown has passed.
We are hiking about 18kms on the Mendips tomorrow,. sheād better be worn out after that, or Iām in big trouble.
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