Category: Exercise

Wet. That’s about it.

Oh, and also slow. A bit stiff today combined with tiredness from a higher-mileage week than I’m used to. Marathon training 😴

I’ve done two parkruns in one day before (three years ago today – the last ever New Year’s Day double before they stopped it) but I believe this weekend is my first time parkrunning two days in a row! We made the annual trip to Portobello for the New Year’s Day parkrun. A fairly stiff and slow run but it was better than last year! A good-ish omen for 2023 I hope.

I’m looking forward to a different side of parkrun over the next few months, as I’ll be doing lots of volunteering during my marathon training. Many Saturday mornings in Jesmond Dene beckon 🙂

Next week, though, I think I’ll sneak in one last run!

My first visit to Holyrood parkrun today but not my first time doing that loop round Arthur’s Seat – I’ve done it for two Great Winter Runs and three EMF 10ks in the past. The hill is still tough!

It’s definitely not the easiest parkrun in Edinburgh but it is the easiest to access by bus, being close to the town centre. I sense return visits in the future.

Another parkrun tomorrow for New Year’s Day 🙂

For the second week running, the vast majority of parkruns in north-east England were off. Thankfully we’ve briefly hopped over to the north-west so were able to parkrun at Pendle this morning!

I was looking forward to trying Pendle’s winter route, but they’re having a few red tape issues with it at the moment so it was their normal route this morning with additional urging to run on the grass where possible. I actually found the (frozen solid) soil and grass far more treacherous than the paths and went over on my ankle once or twice! I was really happy to be able to parkrun today though, given so many cancellations.

Fingers crossed for a return to Town Moor on Christmas Eve.

Been struggling a little with my spondylitis this weekend, so it was a touch and go decision on parkrun, but I felt I’d be all right if I took it easy. Bit slow and disappointing as a result, but I needed to take care of myself. I’m glad I went though.

No picture today as I forgot to take one of my own – there is a Facebook one of me hanging around at the start, but I don’t look very happy in it!

We’re definitely into winter weather now. Today’s parkrun can pretty much be summed up by this picture of me trying to wipe the rain off my glasses while running:

Enough said!

Town Moor is off next week so we’ll probably be at Leazes.

It’s not often I’m at the same event two weeks in a row these days! The weather left a bit to be desired on the Moor this morning, and I was about a minute slower than last week (though it felt a lot tougher).

Slightly wet and cold afterwards!

Back to volunteering next week.