One of those rituals in my calendar, the Furnace Inn Fun Run – £2 at Darley Abbey, a very flat route, muddy in places though on mainly pathways there is a small section on the grass and it’s Boxing Day so it gives the world something to do. But this year was different. There was […]
Furnace Inn Fun Run
Here we are again at the Boxing day Furnace Inn 5km. The route had changed slightly due to building works but that didn’t matter. What mattered is that we were here, the two of us, here again, a year on, a whole 12 months later, my best friend still living, yet living with stage 4 […]
Furnace Inn Fun Run
A boxing day ritual, the 3 mile race around Darley Abbey Park with my lovely best friend Becky. This is a short review, to say I am praying we are both still standing here this time in 2017 with smiles on our faces energy in our bodies and air in our lungs, and it contains […]
Furnace Inn Fun Run
A tradition at the Furnace Inn to host this 5km run around Darley Abbey and a snippet at £2 a go too. The route is flat, flatter than Parkrun and popular with both club runners and fun runners alike. For £2 you just can’t say no. So rather than race it and talk myself into how […]
Darley Abbey Parkrun #113
Back again lined up on a hot Saturday morning in Darley Abbey, two in a row, this is getting rather habitual, or would be if I made three in a row. What is going on? It was the second weekend of my swimming course so again it made sense to have a go at a […]
Darley Abbey Parkrun #112
My first Parkrun in ages, my favourite Parkrun at Darley Abbey because its not so much running round in circles but running around in just 2ish circles and most of that is not running on concrete. The journey to Darly Abbey Parkrun may seem a little odd when I have x5 Parkruns much closer, one […]
Conkers Parkrun #206
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 […]
Furnace Inn Fun Run
What a wonderful way to spend the day after Christmas – The Furnace Inn Fun Run. So its 1 degree as we make our way down to Darley Abbey Park, the Furnace Inn to be precise, a welcoming pub located on the edge of the park. The start time is 11am, enter on day. The […]
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 […]