If you haven’t heard of Parkrun then you must be living in the ice ages. With over a million zillion free ‘timed 5km runs’ around the world Parkrun has become a bit of a phenomenon amongst Mr Joe Blogs and Mrs Brown. It’s a Saturday morning, and just like the rest of society I am […]
Sheffield Castle Parkrun #42
Its Parkrun time. I am not a massive lover of Parkrun, some people live and breath them, there are even Parkrun tourists who go round all the Parkruns in the country, the live and breath that 9am start on a Saturday morning. I on the other hand would probably prefer to have a trot on […]
Darley Abbey ParkRun #42
I have renamed this run the Darley Abbey Cross Country Run for it was not your average Parkrun. I was down in Derby for my best friends’ birthday so what better way to celebrate it than to run around a park, a proper park with proper grass and proper mud and proper squelch. This was […]
Heanor Pudding Run
This was my third Heanor Christmas Pudding run, having only decided to do it 6 days previous after managing to complete a 9 mile fell race I was sure I had it in me to run a 10km. I said ‘run a 10km’ not ‘PB on a 10km’. I entered because Becky my lovely inspiring […]
Castle ParkRun #16
There is no castle in castle parkrun believe it or not, so that means we don’t run around a castle three times, instead we run around a park three times, up and down and round and round and repeat three times. I wasn’t going to be king of the castle today or queen of the […]
Hillsborough Parkrun #40
Round and round and round and round we go, round and round and round we go. Well only three times but today I decided to delve back into Parkrun really as a favour to introduce fellow club member Debs to a free 5km run. This was my first proper run back after getting clearance from […]
Darley Abbey Parkrun #18
It was that time again, the park run time. I don’t do many park runs because I am too lazy to like my chest on fire and my breathing go beyond infinity and to ever smash that 20 minute 5km. So one Saturday morning I thought I would be lazy and do a park run […]
Darley Abbey Parkrun #2
It was the second park run of Darley Abbey only a few minutes walk from my friends’ house, so hell why not? Something to do on a Saturday morning. My last park run was a good 12 months ago at Sheffield Graves Park. I had no expectations, didn’t want a particular time just wanted to […]
Dulwich Parkrun #17
A trip to London for a Park Run? Nope they are not that good down there, no way! It was just an excuse to see one of the last events of the London 2012 Olympic games – the men’s marathon. However my rucksack contained more running gear than anything else as I ventured on the […]
Derby Midweek Time Trials
It’s mid-week which means its Wednesday which means I am stuck on a train going to some random office with work admist gazing out of dirty rain infested windows at the poor cows munching on the green grass in the pouring rain. Not only is it Wednesday but its April which means rain. Running rain. […]