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parkrun tourism: Perry Hall

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This morning, Geth and I were able to go to one of our favourite parkruns in the UK – Perry Hall.  It’s a lovely three-lap course with interesting out-and-back sections on the second and third lap, so every lap is a new adventure!

It’s also quite a small parkrun – 156 runners this morning – although I think it is getting bigger, as there were only about 120 when we last ran it about a year ago.  The way the course is set up is really well designed, though, and you don’t really get sections where there are huge amounts of runners lapping each other.

I finished in 33 mins 33 secs, which is not bad for a boozy, foody weekend!  Love this parkrun – will definitely be back again next year.

It’s finally here!

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I qualified for my parkrun 50 shirt back in October, but have had to wait for the milestone T-shirt due to a backlog and subsequent changeover in T-shirt company.  But no longer – it arrived today!

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50 Club member shirt!

Looking forward to wearing this out – I’m hoping to have time for a wee shakeout run this week before the next race, but if not, I’ll be wearing it at Perry Hall parkrun (my favourite parkrun I’ve tried so far) in a couple of weeks!

Still busy with work

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I’m still taken up with my intense work project, so I’m never really sure what day of the week it is at the moment – but the good news is that this is the last week of it.  I’ve still got a lot to do, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel now.

I’m really looking forward to next weekend, as having time to myself on Saturday afternoon will be amazing (volunteering at parkrun on Saturday morning and then racing in Sunderland on Sunday), but I think it’s Monday 14th that will be the nicest, as I’ll be able to have a lie-in for the first time in about five weeks!

This morning’s parkrun

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Another good parkrun this morning (not as good as Geth’s, whose broken running watch was apparently the lucky charm that finally got him a sub-25, but still good).

I was 52 seconds slower than last week, but as it was very warm and there were vast amounts of people out on the Moor today, I can’t complain.  Still on track for a good result at Sunderland next week!

A parkrun PB!

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Well, it’s been a while (since 15th July 2017, when I absolutely killed myself bombing it round Newcastle Town Moor to run 32:29), but I’ve finally got a new parkrun PB!

I ran 31:46 this morning.  I did push myself, but I didn’t go completely flat out, so I know I could do even better in the future.  I probably won’t push for it next week, as I don’t want to run too hard the week before the Sunderland 10k, but hopefully over the summer I will be able to get down to sub-30 minutes.

Now for a few slow, steady runs leading up to Sunderland!

A parkrun update!

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I’ve been back at parkrun for a few weeks now, and excitingly, everything seems to be going in the right direction.  Today, my time was 32:59, which is only 30 seconds off my PB of 32:29, which I set last summer.  I didn’t feel I was hugely pushing myself today, either, so I bet I can get close to that PB again soon, and hopefully get it down further this year!

This is not bad at all, considering I had such a poor winter of training.  It’s amazing what weight loss can do for your speed – I’ve felt, in the last year, like I’ve been getting much better without even trying.  Hopefully those last few pounds that I still need to drop will speed me up even more!

Spring?

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I did parkrun this morning, for the first time in a couple of months.  Between the move and the weather, I’ve just not been feeling like running at all since late January, so it was nice to get back to it.  Lovely day too, and it was perfect running conditions.

I’m hoping that we’ve seen the end of the bad winter weather now, though there are a lot of ominous rumours about a white Easter next weekend.  I sincerely hope it’s not, as Geth and I are visiting the in-laws and the last thing we need is Christmas-style travel disruption.

With the clocks going forward tonight, it would be nice if it could just be spring weather from now on.  Fingers crossed!

A day off

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After a stressful few weeks where Geth and I were anxiously waiting to find out when we could complete the purchase of our new house, we finally got a completion date on Thursday, and after a tough week at work, I thought it’d be nice to spend today relaxing before the chaos of the next week, which is going to involve packing up the rest of our stuff prior to moving day next weekend.  As such, I skipped parkrun this morning and had a nice lie-in and a bath instead (I had asked Geth to get me some bubble bath specially – the best that Sainsbury’s had to offer was Radox, but that’s still so much better than the hotel freebies I’d been using before!), then spent the afternoon chilling out with my favourite blogs and my Duran Duran playlist.  I feel so much better for it, too.  Back to the grind tomorrow…

parkrun…and waiting patiently for my 50 shirt

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I went to parkrun again this morning.  Another solid sub-35, happy with that!  Volunteering next week though, because I’ll be getting work done on my tattoo on Friday so will still be a bit tender on Saturday.

I qualified for my first parkrun milestone shirt when I did my 50th parkrun in October, but the company that did the T-shirts had been having problems with shirt stock so there was a huge backlog with people waiting for them.  However, parkrun has now taken shirt production in-house so hopefully I shouldn’t have to wait too long for my shirt when they release them.  I should at least get it before I qualify for my 100 shirt some time in early 2019!