This last weekend Geth and I continued our parkrun sandwiches (these are part of our multiday training) with a trip to Rising Sun. We originally meant to go last week but hadn’t realised it was off… this week, we were originally scheduled to go to Leazes, but that one was off! The parkrun cancellation dance is a real challenge during the winter.
Storm Darragh was scheduled to hit at about 10am, so I was relieved to see that Rising Sun (along a few other local events) did a morning course inspection and declared it safe to go ahead (parkrun volunteers are all heroes). It was actually fairly still during the run to the parkrun start, with only a bit of drizzle in the air.
The parkrun itself had a lot of puddles to dodge (or splash through – my trail shoes enjoyed themselves), but conditions stayed fine during the run – we took it easy for a 29:36 – and it was a lovely morning with lots of friends there! It was only on the last stretch on the way back home that the wind started to pick up, so we were really lucky with the weather window this morning.
Next week we are likely to be a bit further afield!