The big walk of this week was to be twenty miles so by incorporating the usual parkrun I would need to pick an event about eight and half miles away. Nothing really presented itself so I decided to drive to somewhere that was about nine miles away from a parkrun. After a bit of map…
Author: kevbaldry
Oaklands
Saturday = parkrun, or as I could call it parkWALK ! Not too far to cover this week, only fourteen miles so after subtracting parkWalk left me with eleven or five and a half each way. The parkrun that fitted that criteria was Oaklands near to The Swan at Yardley. At one time The Swan…
Another Saturday, Another parkrun
I received a package on Friday which I eagerly ripped open to reveal my long awaited parkrun 50 T-shirt. Obviously, I had to try it on and take the obligatory (if poor quality) selfie. The following day, being a Saturday, meant that I could wear my trophy top to parkrun – but which one ?…
Yeh ! Fifty !
At last, finally, and about time, after eleven years, I have completed my fiftieth parkrun. Back in 2010, I ran (back in the days when I ran) my first parkrun at Brueton Park in Solihull finishing in a time of 21:32. A few runs further along and I achieved my all time best time of…
Parkrun 49 and other stuff
After a few high(ish) mileage weeks, this week was a low mileage, recovery week. After the hard work the body is given an easier week to consolidate the gains made. Most of the week’s miles were accomplished with just walking the dogs locally. On Thursday, I took Misty for a four miler around Water Orton,…