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mcjihge2 wrote:I missed out on completing stopwatch bingo today by being 1s slow. Or 59s fast.

One of those you will get by chance.

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

I’m 18 from 200 at the moment

No run for me this week, I did do a freedom run after my RD stint.

Next Up

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

Well Durlston was a very hard run. My times at the moment have been averaging around 22:15 minutes, I did Durlston in 25:14 and came 11th! that will give you an indication of the toughness of the course. They did say add 5 minutes to your average time but I am glad that didn't happen.

It is the hilliest parkrun in the UK! 207 meters of elevation!

Next Up

Sept
9th - Jesmond Dene (New + J Letter)
16th - Pomphrey Hill + volunteer (home)
23rd - Zuiderpark (New & Completes Alphabet with a Z)
30th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Oct
7th - Chipping Sodbury + volunteer (Revisit)
14th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)

Jesmond Dene done and that's my "J" Didn't want to push it because of the GNR but ended with Negative Splits due to the amount of people I needed to get past! Not the greatest time but the last KM I did in 4:04 minutes.

Next Up

Sept
16th - Pomphrey Hill + volunteer (home)
23rd - Zuiderpark (New & Completes Alphabet with a Z)
30th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Oct
7th - Chipping Sodbury + volunteer (Revisit)
14th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)

New PB at my home parkrun this morning by 1 whole second!

Next Up

Sept
23rd - Zuiderpark (New & Completes Alphabet with a Z)
30th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Oct
7th - Chipping Sodbury + volunteer (Revisit)
14th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)

I "extra lapped" this week as i did last week.

Been ill all week but still managed to hit a new 5km PB of 20:44 had the parkrun been spot on that would have been a new parkrun PB too but it was 0.08km too long so ended it at 21:02. Was nice to do my first parkrun abroad. Read more on my blog.

Next Up

Sept
30th - Quakers Walk (new)

Oct
7th - Chipping Sodbury + volunteer (Revisit)
14th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)
28th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Another solid run yesterday at Quakers, finished with a time of 21:01 however, missed the funnel and had to go back and go through the funnel which costed me a couple of seconds and 4 places. Seems Quakers have accidently deleted all their results and it's showing nothing now, hope they sort it out.

Next Up

Oct
7th - Chipping Sodbury + volunteer (Revisit)
14th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)
28th - Pomphrey Hill (home)

Returned to Chipping Sodbury for the second time, went for a PB but got stung by a wasp on lap 2 so the pain started to set in quickly and my 4th km I slowed down by 10 seconds before picking back up for the final km. Still beat my course record bringing it down from 23:32 to 21:05.

Next Up

Oct
14th - Pomphrey Hill (home)
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)
28th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Nov
04th - TBC
11th Victoria Dock (new)
18th Newent (new)

Slower run yesterday was all bunged up and low energy. Hopefully will be back on form in two weeks as I quite like to enjoy Fountains Abbey next week.

Next Up

Oct
21st - Fountains Abbey (new)
28th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Nov
04th - TBC
11th Victoria Dock (new)
18th Newent (new)

Realise im mostly talking to myself at this point but I just ordered my A-Z tee shirt from a place on facebook. My list is

Ashton Court
Bushy
Chipping Sodbury
Durlston Country Park
Eastville
Forest of Dean
Grangemoor
Haldon Forest
Itchen Valley Country
Jesmond Dene
Killerton
Lydney
Moors Valley
Newport
Oxford
Pomphrey Hill
Queen Elizabeth
Riverfront
Seaton
Torbay Velopark
Upton House
Valentines
Woolacombe Dunes
York
Zuiderpark

Ended up at Woodhouse Moor in Leeds last weekend due to Fountains Abbey being cancelled because of the storm. Running with Fatigue at the moment so time was shite! took 7 1/2 hours to get there due to the traffic. Planned again for March time.

Next Up

Oct
28th - Pomphrey Hill (RD)

Nov
04th - Lyduard (new)
11th Victoria Dock (new)
18th Pomphrey Hill
25th Pomphrey Hill

I did 28min pacing on saturday and was 11 fast

Rubix wrote:Realise im mostly talking to myself at this point but I just ordered my A-Z tee shirt from a place on facebook. My list is

Do they do 50 venue t shirts too? Ive seem some around.

Rubix wrote:Realise im mostly talking to myself at this point but I just ordered my A-Z tee shirt from a place on facebook. My list is

Ashton Court
Bushy
Chipping Sodbury
Durlston Country Park
Eastville
Forest of Dean
Grangemoor
Haldon Forest
Itchen Valley Country
Jesmond Dene
Killerton
Lydney
Moors Valley
Newport
Oxford
Pomphrey Hill
Queen Elizabeth
Riverfront
Seaton
Torbay Velopark
Upton House
Valentines
Woolacombe Dunes
York
Zuiderpark

Rubix, I want you to know I read your updates and I find them a great source of motivation as I try to recover from a severe Covid related chest infection so I can get back to parkrunning. I really want to get back to it, but the journey has been tough. Your posts help me.

mcjihge2 wrote:I did 28min pacing on saturday and was 11 fast

Rubix wrote:Realise im mostly talking to myself at this point but I just ordered my A-Z tee shirt from a place on facebook. My list is

Do they do 50 venue t shirts too? Ive seem some around.

I used Oliversmamamakes from Facebook, quality shirts and she is brilliant at coms.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id ... 3&sk=about

This is another https://www.shadowofasaint.com/touristlegendsstarthere

Winckle wrote:Rubix, I want you to know I read your updates and I find them a great source of motivation as I try to recover from a severe Covid related chest infection so I can get back to parkrunning. I really want to get back to it, but the journey has been tough. Your posts help me.

Thanks Winckle, glad i'm giving you some motivation and I hope you get back to parkrun soon!

I will Rubix. I've got good medication to keep me breathing and I'm to W4D1 of C25K.

24:58 for me at a new parkrun. Glad to keep up sib 25 at new ones.

Week 5 of couch to 5k done. Pacing is at around 6m30s per KM.

I can't wait to get back to park running. I always felt my weekends got off to the best start with them.

Got my volunteer 25 tshirt last week. Next up is volunteer 50 (didn’t realise that was a thing until I checked the website).
Had to give parkrun a miss though last time out though due to the flu.

Snowcannon wrote:Got my volunteer 25 tshirt last week. Next up is volunteer 50 (didn’t realise that was a thing until I checked the website).
Had to give parkrun a miss though last time out though due to the flu.

Congratulations

Went to Lydiard on Saturday, deep puddles all around and 3 minutes slower than my average. I am suffering heavily with fatigue at the moment

Next Up

Nov
11th Victoria Dock (new)
18th Pomphrey Hill
25th Pomphrey Hill

What letters of the alphabet do you have left to get Rubix?