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5km pb was something like 22:20 but that was in a previous life (25 years ago and 25kg lighter). Parkrun PB 30:23 (Feb 2017) although I'm typically around the 35...

They also organise a fell race that starts and finishes in the yard of the local brewery. Every finisher gets a bowl of chilli (beef or vegan) and a pint of bitter (or non-alcoholic option). I've...

There are two local running clubs near me who do something similar (without watches). The serious club (who I ran with when I was a serious runner) do it on Boxing Day over the course of a local race...

Yep...
Timekeeper 47
Token Sorting 2
Photographer 1
Marshal 79
Pre-event Setup 15
Barcode Scanning 35
Finish Tokens 10
First Timers Welcome 9
Funnel Manager 2

Have you run Crewe parkrun? I was there on Saturday and really liked it. It's in a 'proper' park (with a bandstand, lake, statue, clock tower, crazy golf etc), all on tarmac and enough incline to...

Why do we do these things to ourselves???

81 here.

Just back from juniors where I did some course checking, marshalling and barcode scanning. When the junior parkrun started in a park down the road from me I decided I'd help them out for...

How did you get on?

That's how it started for me... France (stopped near Fontainebleu driving to a ski trip), US (working for a fortnight in Palo Alto so ran at Byxbee and Crissy Field (great...

Ah... good point... I have but never use Amazon Music as part of my Prime subscription. It looks like there was a period of time after Amazon Music started but before I stopped buying physical CDs...

Maybe a long shot here but... Anyone:

listen to music when running
have a Garmin watch
keep your music on YouTube Music?


It looks like Garmin only support Spotify but I've used Google...

Whereas yesterday I ran the whole parkrun and also finished in 35 mins. 25 years ago and 25kg lighter I could run 5K in 23 minutes but I'm very much 'managing the decline' these days. I did have a...

Asics have been my 'go to' for years. I think I bought my first GT-2010s in 1994 and I've had a pair of GT-2xxx or GT-1xxx in the roster ever since. Alongside the Asics I've always had 'something...

Rutland is on my long list of parkruns I plan to do but hasn't got a date yet on my spreadsheet. Maybe see you there one day.

Blimey - where was that? I think there were a lot of cancellations...

You have my respect. My last two London Marathons were '03 and '04 and there is no way I'd take on another one. Feel free to message me with a link to your fundraising page.

Yeah, it's all in the forest - 1km out to the lake, 3km round the lake then 1km back. There's some deal with the parking there if I remember right - I think there's a code that knocks some money off...

I've already got plans for the weekend (Pavilion Gardens, Buxton on Saturday and Alexandra, Manchester on Monday). I can't comment on Birkenhead but Delamere's a good one.

If you're based in Rhyl we probably have some overlap. I've run at Ruthin, Greenfield Valley, Nova Prestatyn and Bodelwyddan Castle (before that one was stopped) and have Wepre, Erddig and Conwy on...

I don't think that's 'shameful' at all - parkrun works for some people and not for others. I love almost everything about parkrun apart from the fact it's 5K while understanding that 5K is the right...

Good luck with the London Marathon. I've done it twice in ancient history (before the 'you should never run again' conversations). If you're aiming for 4:30 you'll probably find you're with a huge...

Apologies if this has been asked before (quite possibly by me) but are there any parkrunners on this thread? Particularly parkrun tourists?

Christmas Day was my 50th parkrun in 2023 taking me to...

It might be a long shot and this might not be the best place to ask but...

Anyone know Dublin, particularly as a runner?

I'm there working next week staying in a hotel on the Grand Canal in the...

As long as you're properly over your cold, you'll be fine. You sort of race on your training from three weeks ago (very rough approximation). Your two weeks of rubbish training is when you would have...

I'll be running tomorrow (thank you marshal). I do a bit of parkrun tourism but my home parkrun got stuck on 99 events so I would have been at #100 whether it happened in March last year or tomorrow....

Does anyone here use the Garmin Coach?
Does it stop logging a run at the end of the planned workout time/distance?

I started it this morning and did the benchmark run. I'd left my car in town...

Another parkrun for me yesterday and another one slower than the week before.
Old, fat, unfit and basically just a sum of all my injuries ever from running, mountainbiking (badly) and skiing...