Another phone box from Mum and Dad’s Shetland trip.
(Coordinates 60°08’13.1″N, 1°33’53.3″W.)
Missing its door and there doesn’t seem to be much inside, but it’s still hanging on!
Usually I rarely visit the same parkrun event twice in a row, but this summer I have really, really appreciated my nice low-key parkrun mornings at Jesmond Dene, which is my closest event (and, conveniently, my favourite). Life (and running, to an extent) is a bit high-pressure at the moment so I have decided that parkrun will be an escape from that. I’ve just been running how I feel. PBs can wait for next year.
(And believe me, nobody is ever going to get an overall PB at Jesmond Dene! Unless it’s the only event they ever run.)
Don’t know yet where I’ll be next week. Not ruling out going to Jesmond Dene again!
Here’s the first of a series that Mum and Dad found in Shetland this summer.
(Coordinates 60°09’69.8″N, 1°32’17.8″W.)
Just one of many bits of décor around the place including lots of fake birds!
More from Shetland next week.
Back home this week and back to the beautiful Dene for my favourite kind of parkrunday. Kept the pace ‘parkrun easy’ (i.e. a pace that feels too fast normally but is nice and comfortable at parkrun) and enjoyed the surroundings.
Same again next week!
In mid-June, Mum and Dad reported that the North Shields ferry terminal phone box had disappeared!
However, when returning to the ferry terminal in early July, Dad spotted that it had been moved to a different location, a few hundred metres to the east.
Really glad to see that it’s still around!
A teensy bit further north next week.
It was the last day of our trip today, but there was still time for one more new-to-us parkrun!
We weren’t expecting much from Carlisle (especially after the special trip to Fountains Abbey last week) but it’s a really lovely parkrun. Not a fast course (there are a lot of grass sections, though perhaps not so many on the winter course) but a really friendly event, and surprisingly small in numbers given that it’s the only parkrun in the city.
Closer to home next week!
Geth and I saw this one while spectating at the Great Manchester 10k.
(Coordinates 53°47’75.1”N, 2°25’01.3”W.)
As we were across the road (and the finish area was in the way) I couldn’t ascertain if this one is still in use. It seems to be a bit of a graffiti showcase at the moment, which is standard for city centre phone boxes!
I think Fountains Abbey is one of those parkruns that’s on everyone’s bucket lists – considered the most beautiful in the UK and all that – but for me and Geth, it had been taunting us for a while as we see signs for it every time we drive down via Harrogate to visit family. Every time, we say that someday we’re going to stop in the area and do Fountains Abbey parkrun instead. This weekend, we did.
We were both taking it easy today (Geth recovering from injury, me resting after a tough week on the training plan) so had a lovely run together enjoying the scenery.
The abbey and grounds are so beautiful and this parkrun location really is worth the hype for me. I don’t usually revisit non-local parkruns, but I’d love to do this one again.
More touring next week.
