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. A parkrun cwtsh, and trysor a anwybyddir. The problem is, Penallta’s proximity to Pontypridd. This means that many come this way as part of their Full Ponty challenge, and never make it back again to savour the delights of Penallta parkrun. Their bad, they are missing out on a hidden treasure indeed. I’ll try […]
Well, w(h)at er lovely parkrun Watergrove is. It’s been on my radar a while. I’d heard it is one of very few that goes properly off to the hills, nice and high, and it is reachable from Sheffield by car which is a boon. Check out the official website blah de blah: Course Description The […]
Rothwell parkrunEvent number 23612th August 2023 . Digested Read: Well, this was a very fine parkrun with all the things. They call it the Glorious Twelfth, don’t they? It isn’t all that glorious if you are a pheasant obvs, but it was pretty jolly Glorious for all of us at Rothwell parkrun this twelfth of […]
Well, that was splendid. It’s true, there were some things I didn’t entirely think through, but to be fair, that isn’t really particularly novel in my parkrun touristing world, and besides, it adds a frisson of excitement to proceedings, that element of jeopardy that keeps you on your toes and makes you feel truly alive. […]
I don’t know who, what or where Oldbiggin is or was, let alone whether they inhabited the shores of a sea but turns out, Newbiggin by the sea is an actual place, and not an imaginary one at all -albeit it is the stuff that dreams are made of. By which I mean of course […]
An absolute gem! I properly loved this parkrun. Of course in theory all parkruns are equal in their loveliness, but I think we all recognise some are more equal than others. Middleton Woods parkrun is a first among equals, a true hidden gem. Once again, the parkrun fairies spun their fairy magic, as this isn’t […]
Up until today I thought the only parkrun with a naturalised endemic unicorn population was Bushy parkrun. The latter parkrun also having deer – including spectacular stags, parakeets and skylarks in season. And also potential celebrity sightings of PSH amongst others. However, every parkrun day provides edutainment, as well as community coffee opportunities, and now […]
Well, that really was a spectacle of splendour, opulence, pageantry and glory if ever I saw one. Irchester Country parkrun really is a pretty stunning venue and the event team literally get the flags out to welcome arrivals at their parkrun party week in week out. It was a bit of a trek for me […]
Well, that was most satisfactory. Jubilee parkrun has been on my vague ‘to do’ list for ages, in honesty, largely because of the alphabet challenge, but also new place to visit, good vibes, in reach of Sheffield, the usual tick list of gloriousness. I picked this week because who wants to go to Norway for […]
It is arbitrary I know, but three hundred. That’s loads of parkrunning around, even if latterly it’s been more of a solitary shuffle than an athletic sprint. Surely worth celebrating. I know it’s not an official milestone, no t-shirts, congratulatory telegrams or even cake, but even if not going down the lines of celebrating as […]
The unabridged version. So the story is this. I got in touch with parkrun to talk about my perspective on walking at parkrun. I really welcome the parkwalk initiative, but feel that sometimes what happens on the ground doesn’t entirely reflect the welcoming rhetoric that comes from HQ. I ended up having quite a useful, […]
Whatever the subtext inherent in Blanche’s utterings, it’s not a bad thing sometimes to have to rely on the ‘kindness of strangers.’ Anyway, in the parkrun world, there aren’t really any proper strangers, because for the most part, if you have done a parkrun before, you will meet friends of friends at any random parkrun […]
I’m not joking when I tell you that Hackney Marshes parkrun was ABBAsolutely Awesome! I’m really happy that we made it to this venue, especially when you hear how some people got on on their parkrun day. There was a particularly disgruntled post by someone who’d gone to Royston Vasey parkrun and had a terrible […]
Another parkrunday another new parkrun. NewARK parkrun to be precise. New ARK New ARK so good they named it – oh no hang on that’s not quite right is it. Also, stole that punnage from elsewhere. I do love a good pun! I don’t entirely know why I settled on this one. I have a […]
You never regret a parkrun EVER! I wasn’t really feeling the love this morning. It was cold, I was feeling rough, and had no particular parkrun plans or people to go with or meet up with. I’m feeling somewhat earthbound at present, walking is hard and honestly, did have a brief moment of wondering whether […]
Hordes of parkrunners high hoved to Horton indeed, but friendly ones. Happy hordees if you will, gathering together for who? For Nelson, that’s who! It being all the threes, three, three, three, a palindrome But really mainly just getting together for parkrun day, to have a nice yomp around a lovely park with gorgeous people. […]
This is a parkrun that is all about the people. I was twalking again (walking and talking) but saw a comment from a participant on the Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun Facebook page saying how much they enjoyed their ‘chatty pootle’ so maybe chootling is the way forward? We shall have to wait and see. What […]
You may find I have quite a bit to waffle on about from this particular Saturday … those of you who know will know (nom, nom, nom etc), and those of you who don’t will soon 🙂 ! . . To be fair, why wouldn’t you want to go to a parkrun known as Babbs […]
Today was all about hightailing it to Hillsborough parkrun. Although this is one of my locals as a Sheffielder, to be honest, I’ve only been the once before. I didn’t have a particularly good experience. There was a very competitive local running club there out in force and it was very bargy, as a multi-lapper […]
You never regret a parkrun ever. FACT. I’m so happy I made it out on this lovely sparkling morning, and was reunited with lovely sparkling parkrun people and the joy of winter sunshine. Hurrah! It was reyt good. And the thing is, it nearly didn’t happen, and if it hadn’t, that would have been properly […]
. I feel all squidgy and nice inside thinking about this particular parkrun. It was just such a perfect parkrun day. The kind of experience you just wish you could bottle and keep with you to sniff – or indeed snort – in times of need. Such an inoculation of joy was received by all […]
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a parkrunner in possession of a barcode is always in search of a parkrun. Further more, such a person will never regret a parkrun. Sometimes you may think you will, in the small dark hours of a dismal winter day blinking up at the ceiling from under the […]
Another parkrun day, another destination. It’s not been the best of years for me parkrun wise, but I suddenly realised I can get my 3/4 Cowell done this weekend if I moved out of my comfort zone and braved a but of tourism. Although strictly speaking a parkrun tomorrow on New Year’s Day is in […]
This parkrun was properly amazing! It’s been circling round my peripheral vision ever since I learned that the genius behind the Walking at parkrun Facebook page – set up to both normalise walking at parkrun and make it visible – has Roberts Park parkrun as his home parkrun. Hurrah, I was confident of a walker […]
Another Saturday, another parkrun. Reet nice out. . . Where to go? I wasn’t entirely feeling the parkrun love this week. As my regular reader will know I’m struggling a bit with walking at parkrun, and these days always feel quite a bit of trepidation about whether and where to go in my quest to […]
. I don’t care if it’s a cliché, this was a banger of a parkrun! There was always a slight worry in my mind that the launch of this event might for me be an anti climax. No reflection on my confidence in the team at Buxton, more a worry that a near lifetime of […]
. . Well, well, welcome to Woodbank. Hosting a Fibonacci numbered parkrun in it’s two-park venue on the day the circus came to town! You have to love a parkrun that has its own sunglass wearing giraffe to welcome you on arrival. This is the parkrun that thought of everything! I should never have left […]
Me and my EWFM go to cheer every, single, marathon runner at London this year. Isn’t that grand. I already knew she was a keeper obvs, an EWFM (Erstwhile Flat Mate) being for life not just for Christmas and all, but just in case you need a bit of triangulation in your evidence base because […]
I do concede that to the untrained eye we might not appear to be doing a massive amount of actual moving around in the banner pic, but that’s just a quirk of when the picture was taken. We were moving it for an honest, 5km for starters, because that’s the parkrun route, and it was […]
Had a wild old time here! A fine, fun, forest foray indeed! What’s not to like? There is a reason why forest bathing has become quite the thing. Basically, it’s lovely, calms the soul, soothes the spirit and puts all in context. Add in a parkrun to the mix and it takes forest bathing to […]
I’m fearful that what I am about to post may be deemed by some to be only just short of sacrilege in parkrun terms, but I can not tell a lie, Normanby Hall parkrun is truly special. (That’s not the controversial bit). I think it may, for me at least, knock Fountains Abbey off it’s […]
I do like to be beside the seaside. I really truly do, and it’s been properly aaaaaaaaaaaages since I got to go there. Like everyone I’m skint, so mini breaks aren’t really compatible with my income, and anyway, with my mobility a bit hit and miss long drives and random parkruns are, erm, let’s go […]
Marshals are lovely though aren’t they? Wherever you end up on a parkrunday. Why Belvoir Castle parkrun for this weekend? Well, why not? Lots of reasons, it’s relatively new, it’s within commutable distance from Sheffield, I needed to find out for myself how to pronounce it properly and see if there are any in fact […]
I took that photo by the way, it was supposed to capture the moment that everyone jumped in the air, I have no idea if I was early or late, but the important thing is that the person who instigated this picture was satisfied it caught the RD crouching in a slightly bizarre fashion, which […]
Humber Bridge parkrun Event number 350 16th July 2022 This is actually a run report I did for Humber Bridge parkrun, it was shared on their Facebook page (thank you lovely Humber Bridge parkrun) but not posted on their news pages, so I’ve just added it to my own blog to store the memory. Indulge […]
Digested read: went to Perry Hall parkrun for the WMN listeners’ meet up. It was epic with all the things. Undigested read: – continue at your own risk, time vampire follows Finally! All good things as the saying goes…. This With Me Now Pow Wow (meet up) was a long time coming. It’s actually third […]
Finally, once again a Saturday morning when Sheffield runners could get laced up and ready to go! For some this would mean squashing covid kilos into Lycra and dragging their weary carcasses around the green trails of our great city. For others, toned from months of newly adopted training regimes that started with Joe Wicks […]
Digested read: long story short, parkrun tourism took me to Queen Elizabeth parkrun in pursuit of my Q. Sub-optimum running conditions, but superb muddy fun and friendly too. Nearly didn’t happen, but then it did! Hurrah! Undigested read: For the short story made long, read onwards, but it’s not compulsory – or you could just idly […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me and my parkrun co-tourist to Bradford parkrun. There are lots of parkruns around Bradford, but this is the one with the ‘teeny tiny hill’. And a bandstand! Hurrah. It’s in Lister Park. They have classy benches there it seems. Undigested read: Well this trip was particularly exciting! Not just […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me to Wolverhampton and East Park parkrun. Bagsied my final compass point and got to run round their lovely park three times in order to do so. It has a bandstand! Job done. Undigested read: First off, see what I did there with the title …. ‘encompassing’ because it’s the […]
Digested read: Did New Year’s Day Double today, staring at Delamere parkrun and then topping it off here at Northwich parkrun. Very welcoming gathering, thanks for having me. The End. Undigested read: If you want to linger, I can oblige. Hereafter follows the unexpurgated version of my Northwich parkrun immersive experience. Enjoy or not as […]
Digested read: Early start and off to Delamere parkrun for my first of two parkruns for New Year’s Day. It was very nice thank you for asking, and a most excellent way to start a new decade. Undigested read: You want more? Or maybe you just don’t want to face all those labours you’d been […]
Digested read: it was St Andrew’s Day, and it was parkrun day, the Venn diagram intersection therefore took me to Tring parkrun where they were having a themed, ‘bring a giraffe to parkrun day’. It was very nice indeed, thank you for asking. Frosty terrain but warm welcome. Also tea-cakes. Undigested read: It’s a long one, […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me to Cusworth Hall parkrun this Saturday. It was relay nice! Undigested read: Cusworth Hall parkrun is a relatively new addition to the parkrun family. It takes place at Cusworth Hall Museum & Park, Doncaster. Were it not for this parkrun, I would never even have heard of Cusworth Hall, […]
Digested read: went back to Sheffield Castle parkrun today, it rained. It’s been a while. Undigested read: I wasn’t going to do a blog post today, as it’s sort of my home patch and I’ve done a post about Sheffield Castle parkrun before, loved it then, two years ago – they had tadpoles* for goodness […]
See what I did there with the heading? I know, I astonish even myself sometimes. ‘Run of the Mill/ Millhouses parkrun’, genius. And anyway, now could a park with both super-sized swans and a very respectably sized heron be in any way at all ‘run of the mill’? Particularly when it takes place against a […]
Digested read: marathon running records smashed this weekend for men and women and humankind. I found some big pants up a tree. Undigested read: Wowsers, it’s been quite an epic weekend, running wise. Really, it has! Yesterday, Eliud Kipchoge, cracked the 2 hour marathon, today Brigid Kosgei broke Paula Radcliffe’s women’s marathon record and I […]
Digested read: I went to Bushy parkrun for their 15th Birthday Bonanza. It was epic. There is however a darkside to parkrun I discovered. But in a good way… Undigested read: Well, yes it was ‘epic’ but I’m hardly going to leave my account at that now am I? Have you not been concentrating on my […]
Digested read: volunteered at Graves junior parkrun today. It was awesome! Undigested read: National ‘Get Outside Day‘ Oh GOD! Is that really a thing? I mean apparently so accordingtofacebooksoitmustbetrue. Never heard of it, but it seems that today, Sunday 29th September has been declared National Get Outside Day! They said so on the (very marvellous) […]
Digested read: tail-walking at Graves parkrun today. Most educational. Undigested read: Yes, well, bit stream of consciousness today, but then, I wasn’t originally going to do a post about this particular parkrun. Well, it’s one of my locals, and I’ve posted about Graves parkrun a fair few time before – and then I was just […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me to York parkrun, that’s York, UK not York USA. Made new besties and wanna be record breaker for three dimensional plant. I know! parkrun is indeed the phenomenon that just keeps on giving! Undigested read: Careful now, this could be a long one, might at least want to have […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me to Congleton parkrun. Undigested read: This could be another long one, so maybe have a precautionary pee first, before you settle down with a mug of tea or gin or whatever. Not that I’m advocating having a mug of neat gin, that would be very ill-advisable, you should at […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me to Clifton parkrun, Nottingham. Sixth of the seven seas. Result. Undigested read: I was contemplating going to Clifton parkrun anyway, it’s not too far away from Sheffield, and will nab me a sixth of my seven needed cs for the much coveted pirates badge. I hadn’t particularly prioritised coming […]
Digested read: Colwick parkrun today for some tourism. It was hot stuff. We were transported to Hawaii. Bagged the North Pacific too. A good morning’s parkrun trawling. Undigested read: Put your feet up and get yourself a cocktail, it’s going to be a long one 🙂 I’m still on the parkrun tourism trail for now. […]
Digested read: parkrun tourism took me to Isabel Trail parkrun. It was very nice thank you for asking. Undigested read: That’s me, nothing if not I-catching! See what I’ve done there, hilarious! All a bit of a blur, as you can see. I feel bad for saying so, but before I went to Isabel Trail […]
Digested read: went to Victoria Dock parkrun for some parkrun tourism, nabbed a V and got to accompany a friend on her parkrun debut. Hurrah! Undigested read: Oh so much to share. Brace yourselves people, could be a long voyage, though not a rocky one, apart from some early turbulence, but we’ll come to that in […]