Parkrun! (1 Viewer)

[GO]

Anybody else into this?

I am totally hooked..its fantastic! First run was 16 weeks ago..42 mins ..Gonna try for sub 25 tomorrow in St.Annes
Havent run all week though cos I twanged my knee last Saturday..but I feel fit today

Anyway if yer in St.Annes say hi!

 

[Lili Marlene]

pls explain wtf yer on about


I love St Anne's though, it's like a secret cool slightly wild park away from the tourist traps

 

[GO]

Parkrun..aww man..its great.

Its a weekly free timed run in parks all across the land..in fact all across the world..I'll be doing my first international one in Rome soon!

Its super simple..you sign up Home We organise free weekly timed runs all over the world. Held in pleasant parkland on weekend mornings, our runs are open to all – from juniors and first timers to Olympians and octogenarians… ..they give you a barcode..which you present at the end of the run and later that day your time appears on the internet!

Its not a race..just tip around at your own pace. Although you will find yourself racing against your old less nimble self in no time.

If you ever felt like getting fit..this is the way to do it. I havent missed a week since I started..and am actively trying to improve and in the process becoming super fit.
The fiittest I've ever been...at 46!

Awesome!

 

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[rettucs]

sorry, couldn't resist

 

[GO]

I absolutely love parks..and I love that tune so its all good

 

[nooleen]

i think i registered but never actually did it

i did a run for the first time in 4 and a half months yesterday, 5k in 39:45 which was pretty good for me

 

[Unicron]

2 pieces on this in UK papers in recent weeks, this How Parkrun’s 13 became five million and changed weekends for ever | Sean Ingle and Johnny Liew wrote something in the indy, it appears to be having a moment.

 

[GO]

Its the best thing ever!

I scored a new PB (personal best) on Saturday! Even after not running for a whole week due to a trick knee..shaved two seconds off! Huzzah!

 

[GO]

Absolute blew the doors off Saturdays run with a new PB of 25.34!

I'm getting quicker!

 

[nooleen]

you certainly are

 

[sleepy]

I do the one in Porterstown Park the odd time. It's a nice track and there's a decent group of people there. I haven't been able to make it down since about February because my kids have football training at the same time but funnily enough I do actually meet up with some of the dads from that to go running one night a week.
Gonna go for my first run in about 3 weeks at lunch time today, I'll let ye know how it goes.

 

[sleepy]

Kids' football was cancelled on Saturday because of the weather so I did my first park run in a few months. Did it in 25.54. Was happy out with that.

 

[GO]

Heres a picture of me and fellow Parkrun enthusiast the Lord Mayor of Dublin after a rain drenched run in Drimnagh on Saturday ..he's pretty quick for a lord mayor!

The photo was his idea

 

[sleepy]

I didn't go running for a few weeks because of an injury. I've done 4 5k runs over the last 5 days and it probably wasn't a great idea. I'm completely knackered now. So my advice is don't do what I just did.

 

[GO]

I'm only running Monday,Wednesday and Saturday now ..and I take it super handy except for Saturday(parkrun natch!)...although I go further on Monday and Wednesday.

Monday I run around the park in Dublin cos its lovely and flat and Wednesday I'm back home on the gruelling hills of Belturbet

I want to run more but I can't yet..my legs are just too weak,,I keep getting injured when I try consecutive days...but I hope to be able to run 5 days a week eventually

 

[Anthony]

Jayus good man Gaz. I'm scrambling trying to find time to get out on the bike these days.

 

[GO]

Thats kinda the trouble with cycling..it takes so long! In the summer I'll be all over it again..but running is so straightforward and quick and you can listen to music.

You can get a killer workout in the length of an album!

 

[Anthony]

True. This is the longest I've been away from a gym in 4 or 5 years. I'm wasting away. I'll be going back in November and it will be like DAY ZERO ALL OVER AGAIN.

 

[sleepy]

Thats kinda the trouble with cycling..it takes so long! In the summer I'll be all over it again..but running is so straightforward and quick and you can listen to music.

You can get a killer workout in the length of an album!

I used to find Nanogan Infinity by King Gizzard the perfect running album. Starts out real fast, slows down in the middle for Mr Beat before picking the pace up again at the end. Used to do a good 7k listening to that.