Any Runners On Here??

[Spartak]

Great stuff. As soon as you can run+walk* 5k, get registered, get your barcode and get down there. I guarantee you'll get a warm welcome and have a ball.

*no one at parkrun cares if you can't run the whole 5k. Plenty of people walk ours, and I've met a few folk wearing 50 & 100 Parkrun T-shirts who have never run the whole way and could not care less. It is, without-a-doubt, the most inclusive sports-related 'movement' I've ever been a part of.

Signed up to Parkrun last night.

Went out earlier 4.94kms inc. fastest km to date 8-)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Go early, intro yourself and listen to the Race Directors tourist/first timer brief. And then enjoy it.

 

[Spartak]

Go early, intro yourself and listen to the Race Directors tourist/first timer brief. And then enjoy it.

Thanks GG.

Gonna give it a go in a couple of weeks time !

 

[London Female]

Great stuff. And I like the idea of doing c25 at the back of the bunch. couldn't do that in 2010 when I did mine (rehab from a busted leg) as we didn't have a local Parkrun.

Trail shoes are a must I think if your parkrun, like mine, involves lots of mud. Slips and slides can cause all sorts of problems and muscle tears/strains. If starting out and not wanting to spend lots of moolah you could do much much worse than getting a pair of More Mile Cheviot shoes. Change from £30 and all the comics say they are excellent vfm. More Mile kit is cheap but not nasty. I have several pieces (usually grabbed from TK Maxx) including a pair of Cheviots bought especially for the worst of winter on Sussex clay.

Thank you, I will have a look at the More Miles kit.

 

[Ian A]

I have a 305, one of the older models.
Whilst being quite bit, it does most of what I want it to do - when I wear it, which is rare nowadays
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Forerunner-305-Wrist-Worn-Personal/dp/B000FMQ296

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I can second the Forerunner 305 as a great watch. Had one for years. A newer/improved model is the Forerunner 310xt which you can currently get on Amazon for £122 which is £3 more than the 305 currently. I'd recommend it over the 305 especially at that price difference.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A friend of mine has just won her age-category (V40) in the National 'Cross Duathlon Championships'!!
http://www.onestepbeyond.org.uk/evil-sheriff-off-road-duathlon.php (Triathlon England)
Which appears to be; 5 K XC run, 20K MTB (or CX?) ride, 3.5 XC run
I believe she's still the reigning National Duathlon Champion, in her age-group too!!!

Looks to have been fun!!
http://www.marathon-photos.com/scri...2014/Evil Sheriff Off Road Duathlon&match=425

*no one at parkrun cares if you can't run the whole 5k. Plenty of people walk ours, and I've met a few folk wearing 50 & 100 Parkrun T-shirts who have never run the whole way and could not care less. It is, without-a-doubt, the most inclusive sports-related 'movement' I've ever been a part of.

Very true indeed!
We vary from 17 minutes, all the way to '55', & they all grumble about it, then say how they enjoyed it!

Trail shoes are a must I think if your parkrun, like mine, involves lots of mud. Slips and slides can cause all sorts of problems and muscle tears/strains. If starting out and not wanting to spend lots of moolah you could do much much worse than getting a pair of More Mile Cheviot shoes. Change from £30 and all the comics say they are excellent vfm. More Mile kit is cheap but not nasty. I have several pieces (usually grabbed from TK Maxx) including a pair of Cheviots bought especially for the worst of winter on Sussex clay.

I have a pair of those, for winter commutes to work/training
They work fine in wet snow too, without clogging up


Personally speaking, I wouldn't wear them for racing (ParkRuns, or on the Fells), s I don't feel the soles are pliant enough, they have problems conforming to uneven surfaces

 

[BrumJim]

Signed up to Parkrun last night.

Went out earlier 4.94kms inc. fastest km to date 8-)

Did nothing to 1/2 marathon in about 5 months in 2011. Cycling fitness gave me enough CV base to do it in 1hr 46 11s, but could have been up to 10 minutes quicker if I had run more aggressively. Certainly there are leg muscles that you use in running but not in cycling, hence the need to build up gradually.

 

[Ian A]

Looks to have been fun!!
http://www.marathon-photos.com/scripts/event.py?template=MPX2&new_search=1&event=Sports/CPUK/2014/Evil Sheriff Off Road Duathlon&match=425

That's a cracker. That was my first duathlon a few years ago. I was cr@p. Finished in the first half of the field on the first run with plenty left in the tank run and the MTB killed my legs. I really should work on my biking . There were a few cyclo cross bikes our there when I did this one.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

That's a cracker. That was my first duathlon a few years ago. I was cr@p. Finished in the first half of the field on the first run with plenty left in the tank run and the MTB killed my legs. I really should work on my biking . There were a few cyclo cross bikes our there when I did this one.

Angela's quite a fit girl

Mindst you, she'd have to be to win the title
She's a '20 minuter' at the Pontefract ParkRun!, & even gets out onto the Fells occasionally
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/any-runners-on-here.110181/post-2847479

She's also running the 'Auld Lang Syne' again this year

 

[Ian A]

Angela's quite a fit girl

Mindst you, she'd have to be to win the title
She's a '20 minuter' at the Pontefract ParkRun!, & even gets out onto the Fells occasionally
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/any-runners-on-here.110181/post-2847479

She's also running the 'Auld Lang Syne' again this year

That's fast!

Found my 2011 results. Can't say from these whether I was actually was in the top half after the first run but it all went downhill from there! 154th according the archived results on tri247. I'll be doing that one again sometime.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Personally speaking, I wouldn't wear them for racing (ParkRuns, or on the Fells), s I don't feel the soles are pliant enough, they have problems conforming to uneven surfaces

Interesting. They are stiffer soled than my New Balance or Montrail trail shoes but in our winter mud that feels like a good thing to me, for a parkrun (where I'm not racing like I think you mean racing, I'm just running.)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I think it could be a tad misty on the top of Baildon Moor, for the 'Harriers v Cyclists' this afternoon

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I think it could be a tad misty on the top of Baildon Moor, for the 'Harriers v Cyclists' this afternoon

Yes it was
A fair bit harder too, with the new course (some more climbing on Hope Hill)


Here's some of Dave (woodentops.org.uk) Woodheads photos

https://plus.google.com/photos/110439573756197443848/albums/6081991104633989793?banner=pwa

 

[SimonJKH]

That is some fine photography given the conditions!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Yes, Dave photographs a lot of races (including his own - listed at top - when he can)

http://woodentops.org.uk/index.php?topic=home&subtopic=morephotos

Almost 199,000 images!!