A few weeks’ worth of parkrundays to catch up with.
On 13th September we went to Town Moor, as is traditional the week after the GNR (they do a big group photo of everyone in their finishers’ t-shirts). Geth and I both had six miles to do – peak marathon training meant that every scheduled run was quite a bit longer than three miles and parkrun sandwiches had become non-negotiable at this point! We did the course solo by ourselves, stopped for the group picture and then went round again with everyone else.
On the 20th I had a tempo progression to do, so sandwiched it to Jesmond Dene this time (1 mile steep uphill, 1 mile flattish and 1 mile steep downhill just about worked for my session).
On the 27th I finally got round to doing another new-to-me parkrun! We headed up to Morpeth for Carlisle Park parkrun (not to be confused with Carlisle parkrun, which we did the month before). Some tough bits on that course but it’s a really lovely one.
Then this last weekend, 4th October, we returned to Town Moor for what ended up being an eight-mile sandwich due to running from home and back. It was another tempo run on the schedule for me, but Storm Amy put paid to that – ran the parkrun at marathon goal pace effort instead, which was a nice confidence booster as it felt easy even in the strong wind. (Hoping for still conditions on race day, obviously!)
Another local effort this next weekend.