Yeah, Thursday night handicaps at accommodation road etc… normally down in Dunsfold for Cat2/3 road racing - standing on the side of the A3 for TTs and have marshalled at Crystal Palace crits!
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I now try and volunteer 1 in 10 but I’m actually a bit in credit atm.
But I’ve only done just over 100 anyway.
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I think I’ve done about 20 volunteering stints at PR. A combo of injury and just wanting to. Only recently signed up for the vollie emails though.
I did Xmas Day because they were desperate. If you do tail walker, you still get a registered finish and a vollie credit. Plays havoc with your AG% though 
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I tend to volunteer at the junior events quite frequently now that the eldest is doing them. Checking the 5k runner app I volunteered 17 times last year, and I did 45 runs.
Kinda feels like it’s cheating as the junior event is over much quicker, so less work for my credit! 
I volunteered on NYD for the junior event, there were more volunteers than runners (17). Think there are 18 Marshall spots (they don’t always fill each of them, but most), plus all the other roles.
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We weren’t going anyway but ours has been canned due to to course being waterlogged and flooded in places.
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Yeah, ours was a mud bath. The big downpour didn’t come but it was filthy - really good fun though. Had a great little race in the last km or so with another guy, sprint finish and everything!
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Did my first of the year.
1/19
24:35 jog. Cycled there and back…
…as that’s my longest run since October 
also (and I’m honestly not being sarcastic here),
I was really pleased to see that they’d move the start line back 70m, which is also the finish funnel, so the “missing” 150m is no more 
It is actually 5km !!!
(I was also glad they’d not made each hill 35m longer, by moving the turn cone up a touch 
)
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Handing out tokens for me today.
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Gave blood mid week and stuffed my face full of curry last night (ate at least twice as much as I really should have, really need to think about losing some timber) so was always going to take it easy today. Told myself that perhaps I’d stick an extra lap on the end to make it 7.5km (normally. 2 lap course), that was before I’d really noticed the weather.
As I was approaching the start couldn’t see any of the local big names and thought a good position might have been possible if I had been in the condition to go for it.
Puddles were massive, too long to hurdle and too wide to go around. Wind and rain pretty brutal in certain sections.
Really questioned my decision to do the 3rd lap (I did finish first before heading back out), especially as the wind and rain seemed get twice as strong, and they were bad enough the first time.
First time using the Garmin 255 with the most accurate GPS (multi) mode (used it last week but hadn’t realised that wasn’t the default setting), and recorded 5.02km, first time in yonks I’ve registered over 5km so well worth the investment.!
Turns out a tourist smashed out sub-17 so good job I hadn’t hoped to get the W. Think @JibberJim was on the podium.
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Nobody was there, I might’ve gone for the win, but I’d talked to the tourist and knew he was gonna win by a mile, he even brought race shoes to swap into between warm-up and parkrun and his cooldown - the 20 pacer came second.
I was not running hard at all, wore clomping trail shoes, at one point I was feeling guilty behind some guy and felt I should do a turn, so went in front of him, but obviously way too hard as he failed to hold at all, and in fact ended over 21 minutes after a 3:50km directly into the headwind, so not sure what he was doing at the beginning.
The weather was crap, ended up only doing ~11km, and was originally planning on another run this afternoon when it dried, but never did…
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Decent hit out today. Despite the cold it was actually fairly decent. First time in a while I’ve run in road trainers and not trail runners. It was like free speed, same effort and surprising to see sun 4 kms pop up on the watch.
Strava hasn’t matched the segment but should be comfortably sub 20
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Very frosty and icy round for us this week.
Course change as well to avoid mega ice patch.
I did 25.25 but LO was about 10 secs ahead of me. No results yet
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19:16 - happy with that considering the effort didn’t feel too bad - got done by a JM10 1 second in front of me though
I was watching Hulk Hogan and Bret the Hitman Hart on Saturday mornings at 10
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LO came 80th out of 314 and 12th female overall. She’s getting waaay to fast for this old dinosaur 
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Time to hang up your trainers and become her full time coach and manager? 
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I’m too slow to be her coach and there doesn’t seem to be any money in running worth being a manager for. Why can’t she be good at tennis, or golf? 
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Bit of tourism for me but not quite what I’d hoped for. Was going to tick off a different letter (J) but they only announced it was on fairly late and I’ve have struggled to get there in time. So went to the backup (F) which is all on trail and hardly ever gets cancelled. Got there and they’d cancelled it!
Luckily the other one in Middlesbrough 5 miles away was going ahead and I got there in time, never done that one so another local one ticked off.
Was a bit sketchy in places on the path but went fairly steady to get 21:14, it’s a bit twisty in places with quite a few dead turns and a little twat of a dig! It’s 2 laps of the route.
At least it got me out of the house! Think I’ve done about 22 different locations now.
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4 Feb, I will be back in London, probably head back to Bush Park for ParkRun if anyone is around
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Ha, you should have sandbagged the first time, nobody is going to show up now.
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Ah balls, I’m fairly certain I won’t be around that weekend (pretty sure we’re visiting friends in Bournemouth)