Substituted Parkrun for our local 6km circuit with LO. First run two wks and only about the third this year. Haven’t done that one with her in a good couple of years.
She was bouncing along, hardly breathing. There were ‘comments’ about the pace 
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Queen’s Belfast for me today. Not a particularly great course around the university sports facilities, pretty wet underfoot as well with some decent puddles.
I’d noticed it got narrow after the first 100m so decided to start a bit faster which left me suffering for the rest of the run 
Made it home in about 22:30 which was a bit better than I expected but for the effort it was poor! Breathing was laboured throughout. Despite it being quite an old event I think a lot are alphabet hunters with a few locals.
Knee was alright during the run but tight now. As per the training thread I think some it is calf related 
Dull fact, both Queen’s parkrun’s I’ve done started at 9:30! I’m only about 4 letters from a double alphabet.
Edit: 1 second off one of my missing times I cruised the last few metres as well as nobody was on my shoulder
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Ooh, another new parkrun at York today starting with Y, that’s a bit easier than heading to Lincolnshire
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Exmouth really should have an alternate course - 5km on the sand - cancelling a beach run ‘cos of sand is well off! Would be good too as then people turning up for the super fast course would suddenly find it really slow!
Got into a sprint finish with a blind bloke today, managed to beat his guide runner…
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One of our locals at our parkrun is in the 90-94 age group, has 170 parkruns under his belt and this morning finished in 54:07. When he finished he said to the lady scanning barcodes that he doesn’t eat before parkrun but he does have a black coffee - with a large amount of brandy in it. Been doing it pretty much every day for the past ten years. Doesn’t seem to do him much harm.
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Does the 2nd alphabet have to be different venues from the first?
Yes.
Edit: I think some are around 7 or 8 which must be constrained by the lack of Q’s or one letter.
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I thought there was only one Z. Or has that changed now?
Quite a few if you travel to Holland or Poland, and I think South Africa. The likes of I, Q, U, J and K tend to be the smallest.
A lady I used to work with was near 92% at my local parkrun yesterday! And that would have been a muddy trail course, possibly towards 95 on a fast one.
No surprises that she used to be a brilliant runner in her day, pretty sure she was around 34 minutes for 10k 
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We have a brilliant runner in our club (which is majority pensioners). I think she’s early 70’s but regularly hits 82-85%, she’s proper fast.
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That pretty close to world class running. Amazing to see what people can do.
I think she was possibly national XC champ or nearly. Really nice as well, I’ve seen her marshalling but only turns up occasionally.
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When I was at uni, our college bursar used to run for our college XC team in the inter-college league and he ran the university boxing club run training sessions.
We all thought he was amazing for an old bloke.
I think he ran the steeplechase for GB at the Tokyo Olympics and when I was at college he was probably only in his early 50s.
It’s funny how your perception of “old” changes as you get older
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Submarines only at Taunton tomorrow, it’s been cancelled again
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BBC Weather said there’s been 35 consecutive days of rain in the SW!
I’m supposed to be marshalling tomorrow, I think it will be on but a bit muddy!
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Winchester was cancelled again this morning. Burnham might be on Fruity?
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Nice suggestion 
, but think I’ll probs just go for a wet plod from home
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As above I just marshalled this morning, fairly small turnout as well. Course was sloppy on top but still good enough, and it was a calm day, so quite good for running.
The new parkrun at York got nearly 650 people, which must have been very busy as it looks like a narrow country park, probably a lot of letter or new course hunters. I’ll leave that one for a while until it settles down.
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