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…
Tag: parkrun
parkrun volunteering
Two stints in a row volunteering at parkrun the last couple of weeks, due to the mix-up about the tattoo appointment. Looking forward to getting back to running it next week, even if I will probably be a bit slow due to a few weeks off!
parkrun…and waiting patiently for my 50 shirt
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!
Another parkrun…
I went to parkrun again this morning, and shaved two minutes off last week’s time, largely thanks to the pacers that Newcastle parkrun has every second Saturday of the month. Not bad following a winter slump.
Geth made a huge improvement this week too, following a couple of midweek training sessions. We spent the rest of the day being deservedly lazy in the house!
Back to running
Geth and I dragged ourselves out of bed this morning to go to parkrun for the first time in seven weeks. Neither of us had run at all during the intervening period; taking this into consideration, I was pretty happy with my time, which was only four minutes slower than my PB. A few weeks back in training (not to mention non-Christmas eating) and hopefully I’ll be back where I was in the autumn and ready for the 10k races I’ve got lined up for the spring and summer!