Family trip to Weston-Super-Mare this morning, set off super early to squeeze in Marine Parade parkrun. No buggy this week and a flat course. Set off with a very keen 3:45/km and just about kept the rest under 4 for a 19:19. Not been under 20 since the beginning of the year. With 2k left I was questioning my choices and was seriously tempted to jog it in.
Two of the 180 turns felt sketchy as the very smooth paving stones were damp. Other than that it was a very quick course. No wind.
My 50th ParkRun been delayed another week, following a fortnight of lurgy and not sure whether my hamstring has recovered, so a gentle spin to Kingston PR to be bagdrop guy. A lovely morning for it.
More tourism today and only event 5 for it at Elemore Park in the Durham countryside, think old pit village!
I was expecting a muddy trail run but it was on a gravel track and good surface. Went off a bit quick to avoid traffic and it had a downhill start but could feel my hamstring again after about 1k so backed off. Second half of the lap has a sharp hill followed by a long drag.
Last nightâs Guinness wasnât helping but jogged it home, hamstring seemed to go off but is a bit tight now. Unbelievable as itâs been fine for a while
Got round in 24:15 but itâs not a quick course.
Hoping to do one on Christmas Day if the leg allows.
LO and I rocked up today. She hasnât done one for well over a month and it was my first run in two weeks. I shuffled round in 29.17 and LO went 24.50. Very muddy and slippery but a cracking day for running.
You put the festive hats that @JibberJim and I wore to shame there.
The start was looking surprisingly quiet when I got there, at one point I thought the sub-20 pacer could win in, but a few more seemed to turn up last minute. Perhaps it only seemed like that as I wasnât as late as normal!
Set off the intention to try and get sub-20, but as i started to go up on the hill on the first lap, I kind of gave up on that idea. The 5Kg extra Iâm carry for last year makes a bit of a difference up there!
Didnât give up completely and carried on for a 20:11 which was good enough for 15th.
For the umpteenth week in a row Iâve got carried away and run quicker than the week before. My pulled/whatever achilles from late September isnât giving me any grief (other than thereâs a lump on it which hurts if I push it - so I donât).
Well that was bloody cold but it got done. Street is a 3 lapper, so very slow jog with my mate for 2 laps then I picked it up alone and salvaged a 30.40
I did my home one as mentioned, got there just before the start and was a bit surprised by the turnout, over 650 which is their biggest by some way, and nearly double a normal week. The finish started backing up and the token queue was about 70m long and back onto the course for 25-35 minutes finishers.
I got a bit carried away and ran round with a woman I know from the tri club, wasnât massively quick at 4:30âish Kâs but a lot harder without a pint of blood. Kept it going though and finished just outside the top 100 with 23:35, I was only 2 seconds off one of the last 4 second numbers in that challenge
Including the jog there\back to the car I managed 7K which was promising, leg was a bit tight after but not painful. Iâm feeling a bit sluggish now, definitely went a bit faster than I should have done!
and ran round with a woman I know from the tri club, wasnât massively quick at 4:30âish Kâs but a lot harder without a pint of blood. Kept it going though and finished just outside the top 100 with 23:35, I was only 2 seconds off one of the last 4 second numbers in that challenge