Parkrun

[mr brightside]

Did the Parkrun at Warwick Racecourse this morning.... my first parkrun since (i think) July of last year.

18:37.... was very pleased with that given the heat... fastest time at Warwick by a long way, and only 3 seconds short of my quickest parkrun time....

Not sure how much time the heat cost, but surely 15-20 seconds, which would put me in 5km pb territory (18:14)

After a brief dalliance with the top 3, settled into 5th for the remainder... at the halfway hairpin i was rather alarmed to find about 5 runners within 10 yards just behind, poised for the kill... but the most pleasing aspect for me was how i held my pace in the 2nd half, and i must've finished 50-100 yards in front of them by the end.

Good work old lad. I fade terribly in the second half, no speed endurance.

[Travs]

Did a local parkrun this morning.

A significantly tougher course than last weekend at Warwick, and not a full 100% effort like last week... but i was still pushing fairly hard, probably 90% effort.

It was much cooler than last week which helped a great deal.

Was hoping vaguely for "around 19mins" so was fairly content with 19:08 and 4th place.... came under some pressure from a young whipper-snapper towards the end, but a well positioned hill gave me the cushion needed to see him off.

[MattPo]

I volunteered at Chevin Forest parkrun this morning and was tail walker. Recorded my slowest ever time, but still managed to be first in my age group.

[Travs]

We had a parkrun based session today.

Coventry Parkrun, then straight into 8 x 150mtr hill reps.

Did the Parkrun in 18:40 which was quite pleasing considering there's been no let up in training this week. Also kept it consistent throughout.... at halfway i was on 18:45 pace, so ran similar for the 2nd half.

The hill reps were very tough.... i was the slowest guy in the group this morning, hung on as long as i could, but after 5 reps i was gone and i fell off the back of the group a bit.

9.5 miles for a very satisfactory session.

[RobGrillo]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Cliffe Castle parkrun in Keighley - three times up 'The Cliffe' is bloody hard whether you're running hard or taking it easy.

[mr brightside]

Bramley will be back on the much favoured winter course soon, FYI.

[noel]

New parkrun world record for a 9 year old! Pretty fast too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj5l612080o

[Travs]

Another Parkrun based session this morning.

There was a bit of inter-club rivalry, as another of the endurance groups turned up for a similar Parkrun/reps session.... we showed them what time it was though, picking up 2nd/3rd/myself in 11th, with their first guy just in front of me in 10th.

I ran 18:50.... suffered a little through going out a bit hard, chasing the Godiva guy from the other group... held onto him for 2km but he pulled away slowly and probably beat me by 20-30secs.... that said, my 2nd lap was only 10secs slower than the first lap.

Then 8 x 150mtr hill reps... this was actually more unpleasant than the parkrun... really tough on tired legs.

Overall another pleasing session at the back end of a tough week. 9.5 miles.

[mr brightside]

526 people at Roberts Park parkrun this morning, on a shortened winter course of 3 laps. There is a ginnel from the nature trail back to the park which is chocka with people on their 2nd lap as you're coming in to finish, it was a very congested last 200. The park is very nice with many Victorian features, and a cafe opening at 8am that has some good ornate period tile work. Have to do the longer summer route some time.

[MattPo]

Roberts is a lovely park and parkrun. My son and his fiancé were there this morning too - you beat them Mr B. The summer course is much less congested at the pinch point.
I was ploughing through the mud at Chevin Forest, no congestion and a pleasing 26.59.