It has been a long time coming but Brisbane now has two parkruns starting with the letter J nearby. Well nearby by Australian Standards. Jeune Park is a one hour drive and Jubliee in Tenterfield NSW is just over a 3 hour drive. Both still a decent effort to visit but a lot closer than the previous option of Jindabyne in southern New South Wales which was about a 15 hour drive. We had already completed our Alphabet challenge of running a parkrun starting with each letter of the alphabet when we visited Jindabyne for a skiing trip a few years ago. (currently where is no parkrun starting with the letter x anywhere in the word). There is a story going around that a Gold Coast council actually made a parkrun course in a park and named it starting with X as a possible option and great tourist attraction but parkrun head quarters were worried it might cause a few too many problems.
Any way early one morning we were off on a day trip to collect our second J parkrun.
A crowd of 180 runners and walkers showed up for there second ever event.
photo credit of me trying to keep up with the leaders to the parkrun volunteer photographer. The black hive singlet and the orange hat in the middle.
Trying to finish strong on my 444th parkrun
The course was all on mowed grass paddock.
My official time 24:52, very happy to keep it just under 5 minute pace.
Just have let the shoes dry and clean all the grass off ready for next week.
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