Yesterday evening after my long ‘slow’ distance (LSD) walk interspersed with a brisk 5k parkrun, I developed a couple of niggles; a painful headache and some knee pain. I woke, Sunday, with an even worse headache (or probably the same one – just more so). Some Cocodamol and a lie in eventually cleared my head…
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Parkrun #47
After a pretty ropey start to the week, I tried to pull it back together later with a couple of dog walks on Thursday and Friday. Saturday called for twenty four miles. Well, I had to do a parkrun (see previous post – LINK) and, obviously, tag a few miles on either side. This week,…
Incentive
Parkrun is a free, timed, 5k event that takes place every Saturday morning at over two thousand locations in twenty two countries. The programme started in 2004 as UK Time Trials before being renamed parkrun in 2008. I came across parkrun, doing my first run (yes, I used to run in those days) at Brueton…
No Spitting, No High Fives
Sixteen months since being suspended because of COVID, parkrun in England restarted this Saturday. A work colleague told me that he would be doing Sutton Park’s parkrun this week and I agreed to meet him there. My training plan called for twenty two miles this Saturday as as parkrun is only three miles (3.1 or…
Mid-Week Back-to-Back
Most weeks, I try to arrange my work so that I am in the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays. I am also in some other days but I aim on being in mid-week. This week, I drove into work on Wednesday morning and after work walked the almost direct route to meet the other half…