No picture today as my fingers were a bit too frozen to take one by the end!
I was on finish tokens today for the first time. It was really fun and quite possibly my favourite of the roles I’ve done. Looking forward to doing it again next month!
No parkrun next week as I’ve got a Saturday race booked. One of hopefully only two or three weeks I’ll be skipping it this year!
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 🙂
I’ve had a nice few weeks prepping for Christmas and am now enjoying the celebrations with family. I hope you’re all having a lovely time too!
I’ve got some New Year’s Resolutions posts coming up next week, some additional festive parkrunning and some blog plans to share. In the meantime, I’ll be doing a lot of videogaming and sleeping. Enjoy the festivities everyone!
A great parkrun to start Christmas Eve this morning. I managed a faster time than I have been doing recently, which is not bad considering how much juggling of marathon training I needed to do this week!
Afterwards we joined the social run group at the café for sherry (Geth) and mince pies (both of us)! It was lovely to be able to say happy Christmas to everyone before we decamped for the break.
Not parkrunning tomorrow as we’re taking the time to enjoy Christmas morning – but there’ll be a couple for Hogmanay and New Year’s Day next week!
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.
No parkrun this morning (all our nearby ones were cancelled due to ice) so I was able to get a head start on the quiet weekend I’ve been planning for weeks. It’s been manic recently with stuff going on every weekend and I really wanted this one to be the calm before the Christmas storm. As such, I’ve worked extra hard this week to get all the Christmas prep finished as I did not want it to be taking up time today and tomorrow! Geth and I will be videogaming instead and occasionally hopping on the treadmill.
Marathon training plan starts on Monday. It doesn’t look like the weather will be warming up any time soon, so I’d probably better get used to the treadmill for a while!
