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After getting my fastest parkrun in 5 years last week at hilly man city, I managed to beat the time this week by 30s at a much flatter parkrun.

mcjihge2 wrote:After getting my fastest parkrun in 5 years last week at hilly man city, I managed to beat the time this week by 30s at a much flatter parkrun.

Nice one!

I was at Weymouth parkrun last weekend running my 57th different parkrun. Back home at Pomphrey Hill this weekend, need to help out.

Seem to be hitting sub 23 constantly now which is good. I would like to push that back to sub 22 times which is what I was doing before my sciatica came back (in 2021). It's taken ages but I seem to be heading in the right direction.

22:40 last weekend at my home parkrun which is hilly!

Did the 10th hardest parkrun in the UK last Saturday and still got a time of 23:10 (Stratford Park).

RD this Saturday which works out as I have a 10k race on Sunday.

Next two months got some more travel booked before the football season starts back

June
17th - Gloucester City
24th - Parke
July
01st - Seaton (4th visit)
08th - Torbay
15th - Blaise Castle (2nd visit)
22nd - Pontypridd
29th - Coed Cefn Pwll

Runs: 145 Volunteer: 166 Different parkruns: 58

Not a bad run at Gloucester City to complete my Staying Alive challenge. 22:14 which is my fastest time of the year and would have been quicker if it wasn't longer than 5k and I wasn't wearing trails on a flat 97% tarmac path.

Annoyingly when I hit 5k I was at 22:04, my silver target for the year is sub 22 which was annoying. but the good news is the times are coming down.

June
24th - Parke
July
01st - Sharpham Estate
08th - Torbay Velopark
15th - Blaise Castle (2nd visit)
22nd - Pontypridd
29th - Coed Cefn Pwll

Runs: 146 Volunteer: 169 Different parkruns: 59

As i was walking to the start of parkrun yesterday, there were a few kids (12ish yo) on bikes with the cones near the finish. I had got there early and there wasnt too many people about. I didnt know if these kids were stealing or setting up. I walked to the start ( about 200m around a corner) and asked the RD. He said yes they were stealing the cones and then he ran after them and he managed to retrieve the cones. Should i have confronted them?

mcjihge2 wrote:As i was walking to the start of parkrun yesterday, there were a few kids (12ish yo) on bikes with the cones near the finish. I had got there early and there wasnt too many people about. I didnt know if these kids were stealing or setting up. I walked to the start ( about 200m around a corner) and asked the RD. He said yes they were stealing the cones and then he ran after them and he managed to retrieve the cones. Should i have confronted them?

No, unless it's obvious I think it's reasonable to assume people are good/doing the right thing. I think the damage that being accussed of doing something wrong by an adult at that age is worse than a few missing cones.

Back from my holiday and completed 3 different parkrun's while I was off.

Parke - Where I completed just outside of 24 minutes but I did stop to help a fallen runner.
Sharpham Estate - Hilly and difficult, managed 23:30
Torbay Velopark - Flat! 22:28

Anyone didn't know I review parkruns in my blog https://martynpoole.wordpress.com/

Next up

July
15th - Blaise Castle (2nd visit)
22nd - Seven Fields (complete my Snake challenge)
29th - Coed Cefn Pwll

Aug
5th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
12th - Undecided
19th - Oak Hill (complete my name challenge)

Enjoyed my return to Blaise, most of us run together as a running club so lots of cake and coffee afterwards! Still need to come back and actually try for a time.

Next up

July
22nd - Seven Fields (complete my Snake challenge)
29th - Coed Cefn Pwll

Aug
5th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
12th - Tetbury Goods Shed
19th - Oak Hill (complete my name challenge)

parkrun pacing to 29min today - got 29:07

mcjihge2 wrote:parkrun pacing to 29min today - got 29:07

Did you overtake the pacer when nearing the finish funnel?

Completed my Snakes challenge on the weekend with a trip to Seven Fields, sciatica is back but still managed a time of 22:18.

Next up

July
29th - Coed Cefn Pwll (completes my pirate challenge)

Aug
5th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
12th - Tetbury Goods Shed
19th - Oak Hill (complete my name challenge)
26th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Rubix wrote:

mcjihge2 wrote:parkrun pacing to 29min today - got 29:07

Did you overtake the pacer when nearing the finish funnel?

I was the pacer.

mcjihge2 wrote:

Rubix wrote:

mcjihge2 wrote:parkrun pacing to 29min today - got 29:07

Did you overtake the pacer when nearing the finish funnel?

I was the pacer.

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Coed Cefn Pwll was a hard parkrun on the weekend, 137 meters of elevation and in the top 10 hardest UK parkruns! still I have Durlston coming up which I think is number 3 with 200+ meters of elevation

Pirates completed

Next Up

Aug
5th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
12th - Tetbury Goods Shed (NENDY)
19th - Oak Hill (complete my name challenge)
26th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Sept
2nd - Durlston (New Letter)
9th - Jesmond Dene (New Letter)
16th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
23rd - Zuiderpark (Completes my Alphabet)
30th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

New parkrun PB on the weekend, aimed for a sum 22 but got 20:57 my 5k is 20:55 so pretty close to that too.

Next Up

Aug
19th - Oak Hill (complete my name challenge)
26th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Sept
2nd - Durlston (New Letter)
9th - Jesmond Dene (New Letter)
16th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
23rd - Zuiderpark (Completes my Alphabet)
30th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Un Route to Oak Hill, would love another sub 22 but will see how it goes.

Another good time at Oak Hill, 21:35 and it was long so 5k was actually 21:25.

Next Up

Aug
26th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Sept
2nd - Durlston (New Letter)
9th - Jesmond Dene (New Letter)
16th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
23rd - Zuiderpark (Completes my Alphabet)
30th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Theyve started doing long sleve milestone t-shirts. I might order myself a purple 25 becasue those are new.

Interesting, didn’t know that. I’m 5 volunteers off the 25 atm

I missed out on completing stopwatch bingo today by being 1s slow. Or 59s fast.