To be fair, no-one posted a photo of themselves with her on the local running Facebook page, without which I’d not have known Joe was there.
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First parkrun for a while for me, Taunton. Nice flat 2 loop course, mix of gravel tarmac and grass, ought to be a course that offers no excuses really.
But I’m going to try to slip in some excuses anyway . Started way too far back and was hemmed in for the first km, also only had normal person shoes not the 4% superpower things. Also I ran there but wasn’t really sure where it was so almost didn’t make the start.
Which is to say, wrong side of 20 minutes today, but maybe can do better next week.
It’s nice being within striking distance of a parkrun again, there were over 500 runners today apparently
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My local is busy and on the few times I’ve marshalled and watched the start, it can take over a minute to cross the start line. It’s quite alarming when you stand there and time it.
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Winchester for us today, haven’t had the times yet but I’m feeling the effects of my new physio regime, so I jogged the first 4kms at an achingly slow 27.00/5km pace, then walked that last km for a 33 something.
Mrs FP did approx 28.00 and LO was 23.45 but that’s on her watch, and that’s always a bit of lucky dip as to where she’s actually stopped it! 
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My 200th parkrun today, and nearly 40 volunteers on top, although I think a couple included running the same day, e.g. course check, first time briefing. Only taken pretty much 15 years 
I’d half planned to have a decent effort today but have been feeling rickety all week, I think those Alpha’s really don’t agree with me as I was suffering after the 10K, then 16k on Tuesday.
Actually started off and didn’t feel too bad but first K was a bit suicidal at 3:54 
reeled it in for quite a consistent pace after that. Watch buzzed for 5K on 20:06 which was pleasing but final time was 20:36, I’m sure it is long but either way I was fairly pleased. It was a hard effort but I wasn’t ready to collapse at the end!
Also finished 16th out of 333, but I think some of the faster people were missing for the GNR tomorrow, some of the Newcastle courses were packed, especially Jesmond Dene that got nearly 600 people, a lot probably going for the letter J, and that’s a tight course for so many people.
Probably the last one I’ll be doing this month.
Anyway, I’m going to claim a tenuous victory over fruity, he didn’t even run 5K whereas mine was about 150m longer and I was only about 2 seconds slower for the longer distance
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100% victory to you there @jeffb 
also 200 park runs
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That’s good going Jeff, well done mate 
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Last night went round a friends house for dinner (a group of six gents). He cooked up a bigos (Polish stew) which was pretty reasonable (he’s english and testing out his culinary skills). Three cans of lager (which I noticed was 5.4%!) and a few shots of each of the following and I felt reasonably good when I got home at 11:30pm (well, MrsF didn’t say “got your’re sh*tfaced when I came up to bed”).
Annoyingly, I was awake (and gasping for water) at 6am and didn’t feel quite 100%. Funny that.
Anyway, jogged to parkrun this morning - where I felt fine but my legs just felt tired. Set off steadily and as per bleeding usual got carried away. Pushed hard and clocked at 19:59. Although my garmin never measures 5k on our course I believe it’s pretty accurate - as the GPS track on my watch doesn’t match up at all with some of the twists and turns when you overlay a Google satellite map.
I’ve been hovering just under 20 mins for a few weeks now. Very happy with this.
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Think it was frozen when I did it. Ticked off a few around there some years back when I was travelling up and down the M5 every weekend. Burnham was flat and fast as long as the wind didn’t blow, Killerton is neither of those things, and a mud bath when I did it.
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How were the booze sweats?
They weren’t an issue which was good. Maybe they’re more of a volume thing - as I don’t think I drank too much liquid. It’s just that most of what I had last night was rather high in alcohol percentage!
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Welcome to the last decade 
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I see the 5k app is going to become an official parkrun product. Been using that for my barcode on my recent trips, it’s a good app, hopefully it will be allowed to keep all the performance analysis when it moves home.
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Will be very interesting to see what they do with the stats and challenges, such as Alphabet one.
I believe the app did remove the fibonacci challenge at the request of parkrun HQ.
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We bought a set of the plastic tag ones a few years ago. I think they were £4.50 and you get 3 per person.
We keep 2 sets at home and a spare at Mum’s house.
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I think it said the developer has joined parkrun as well but the cynic in me thinks it’s probably a handover period before they brand and really just buy the code and user base.
other apps have better challenges but they occasionally break when HQ changes or restricts things.
We’ll see I guess.
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Or the 1950s depending on how you look at it.
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I found out about parkrace.net the other day. Some more stats there to look at. I was interested to see a leaderboard of people who’ve done the most runs at my local event as I couldn’t find it elsewhere.
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LO twisted her ankle last night at an after school cooking camp ( don’t ask! 
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So I rocked up by myself today. Shuffled the first 4.5km and walked the last 500mtr in 26.22
Slowly slowly catching monkey 
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