Another Scottish parkrunday and another slight lie-in for the 9:30am start, as Geth and I were visiting Mum and Dad at their caravan! This parkrun event in Castle Douglas hadn’t yet started last time we were visiting, so it was good to ‘complete’ the Dumfries and Galloway parkruns once again. Not too far a journey from the caravan as well!
Geth and I were in our Carter USM running tops as the Carter Facebook page was trying to get as many ‘Carter tops at parkrun’ pictures as possible this last weekend! They got over 120 in the end from 101 different parkrun events, I believe.
It was fun to bump into some folks from Carlisle whom I recognised from the Cowfest Troon bus trip last month, as well as somebody we knew from Town Moor parkrun back home!
It’s not a super fast course (too much on grass for my liking and lots of humps and inclines), but I gave it a good go and managed a very respectable 24:26, including a sprint finish thanks to the lovely guy behind me who was shouting at me not to let him beat me!
A few quieter weeks coming up now so I’ll be visiting parkruns in my local area again.