Many parkruns in the UK hold special extra events on Christmas Day, as it’s the designated ‘special event day’ for the country. I would personally rather have the UK’s special event day be a less-notable festivity, such as a bank holiday or something, as I’m usually too busy with family stuff to manage the Christmas Day parkrun. However, this year it was agreed that we could squeeze it in before heading home for a slightly-later Christmas breakfast, so Geth and I went to the main Edinburgh event at Cramond for our first ever Christmas Day parkrun!
While I’d probably never seen so many Santa hats in one place, going to parkrun (and the accompanying slightly stressful driving along the badly-maintained back roads of Edinburgh) did make the morning feel like a regular old morning rather than Christmas morning. But we had a lovely parkrun, taking it easy and enjoying the beautiful scenery along the Cramond coastline. It turned into a bit of a progression run despite the headwind on the return leg, and we finished comfortably under 30 minutes.
The next parkrunday is a regular Saturday, and we might be trying out a new-to-us venue…