You may well have heard of Parkrun. It started in London in 2004 and has now spread around the world. It's a weekly 5km run around a local park or fields. You just turn up and run. They have barcodes that you get scanned and your run is logged. One just started near me in Letchworth. I missed the first couple, but I saw nearly 400 turned out the first time. It looks like some people like to visit lots of events and maybe the first one counts as something special.
The course is a 20 minute cycle ride from me. I left it a bit late, so I got there just a few minutes before it started. It's mostly uphill getting there, so I wasn't in the best state to run, but I still did it. It was a freezing morning with the puddles still frozen. My hands were very cold as I just had some thin gloves on.
The course is two laps starting in a park and going around some fields. Some of it is along paths, but most was on grass an mud. Luckily the mud was still fairly frozen, but we had to jump some puddles. By the second lap I was flagging and walked a bit. I ran again for the last kilometre and that was actually pretty good. I wasn't expecting the time to be anything great. Ideally I'd like it to be under 30 minutes, but I can live with that. Next time I'll try to arrive a bit earlier so I'm more recovered from the ride. That furthest distance for February is no big deal as I didn't log my last longer run.
I didn't manage to take any snaps of the runners. I'll try to do that next time. You really cannot miss them with all the fluorescent yellow and pink. You get an email with your time and then the results are posted on the site. I'm way down in 107th place out of 151, but I don't mind too much. I'll work on improving that. I may still go for a longer run tomorrow to build some stamina. I'm sure I won't get to the Parkrun every week, but I'll try to do it when I can. You may well find there is one near you. I mostly run alone, but it's good to run with a crowd sometimes. I didn't know anyone there, but I may get to know some other runners.
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