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FreeLitres said:
Gents, how do I go about getting my milestone t-shirt?
Do you get it as a freebie?
See here: https://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/2005...Do you get it as a freebie?
The t-shirt is free but you have to pay for shipping from wiggle unless you add more items to trigger the free delivery.
Cybertronian said:
Bit of a plug for my cousin Bruce who produced the official promo video from last week's Woodhouse Moor ambassadors' weekend: Woodhouse Moor event 462.
I was there! Wherever I went Bruce seemed to be there taking photos!Had a chat to him while we walked up to dinner on Sat night.
Hard work weekend, not so much the running (only parkrun Sat and a gentle 7k at 0700 Sun) more the continuous seminars, talks, socialising and dashing to the pub as soon as the sessions finished.
I did wimp out on Sat night though and was in bed by 1130 - the next group were still up at 2 and the hardcore still drinking at 5 am. Needless to say they didn't make the 0700 run!
Good weekend though!
john2443 said:
I was there! Wherever I went Bruce seemed to be there taking photos!
His speed at moving throughout a course doesn't translate as well to racing 
! He produced a short film of my wedding day and I was amazed at how much he managed to capture from different angles. You'd have assumed he had a second shooter, but it was just himself.I'm visiting another course this Saturday as a tourist - Kingsbury Water. The venue recently introduced parking charges for Parkrun to keep it in-line with charging other visitors at other times of the day, though offer a bit of a subsidy.
Cybertronian said:
His speed at moving throughout a course doesn't translate as well to racing ! He produced a short film of my wedding day and I was amazed at how much he managed to capture from different angles. You'd have assumed he had a second shooter, but it was just himself.
At one point he ran past me carrying camera and monopod, stopped and started taking pics. Not sure if he was on the same lap as me or whether he did all 3 laps.! He produced a short film of my wedding day and I was amazed at how much he managed to capture from different angles. You'd have assumed he had a second shooter, but it was just himself.KTF said:
FreeLitres said:
Gents, how do I go about getting my milestone t-shirt?
Do you get it as a freebie?
See here: https://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/2005...Do you get it as a freebie?
The t-shirt is free but you have to pay for shipping from wiggle unless you add more items to trigger the free delivery.
You have earned your 50 T-shirt and will be able to claim it soon
How long do you think I will be waiting?
Went to Kingsbury Water Parkrun this morning for yet more tourism. Was bloody warm and definitely went out too hard on the single lap course, where I simply ran out of runners to work with in the second half for a slow deterioration of pace.
Bit of drama there where a runner's dog went berserk and ended up biting a couple of people!
Bit of drama there where a runner's dog went berserk and ended up biting a couple of people!
Cybertronian said:
Went to Kingsbury Water Parkrun this morning for yet more tourism. Was bloody warm and definitely went out too hard on the single lap course, where I simply ran out of runners to work with in the second half for a slow deterioration of pace.
Bit of drama there where a runner's dog went berserk and ended up biting a couple of people!
Bit of drama there where a runner's dog went berserk and ended up biting a couple of people!
Good motivation to find that extra 10% effort!We had an amazing day at our run today - more than doubled our previous record attendance to 218 runners for our 200th event.
I'm recovering from a chest infection, so ran tail runner - and dragged a lady round to a PB by nearly 2 minutes! That was incredibly rewarding.
Had enough energy left to help with our Couch to 5k programme, too - again, an amazingly rewarding experience.
Amazingly, my TomTom racked up over 10km between parkrun and the C25K class.
Time for a slow 15km 'long run' tomorrow, though.
I'm recovering from a chest infection, so ran tail runner - and dragged a lady round to a PB by nearly 2 minutes! That was incredibly rewarding.
Had enough energy left to help with our Couch to 5k programme, too - again, an amazingly rewarding experience.
Amazingly, my TomTom racked up over 10km between parkrun and the C25K class.
Time for a slow 15km 'long run' tomorrow, though.
Ran in my local Parkrun this week and managed a 24:58 after not running for a year. I had a target of 25 mins in my head and nearly killed myself in the last km to his my target.
Last years best was 22:34 and hoping I can run a sub 20 before the end of the year although this is a tough target!
Last years best was 22:34 and hoping I can run a sub 20 before the end of the year although this is a tough target!
Dogbash said:
Ran in my local parkrun this week and managed a 24:58 after not running for a year. I had a target of 25 mins in my head and nearly killed myself in the last km to his my target.
Last years best was 22:34 and hoping I can run a sub 20 before the end of the year although this is a tough target!
24:58 sounds pretty good after a year's lay off. As you say, sub 20 is a huge step from there! (depending on your age and how hard you're prepared to train)Last years best was 22:34 and hoping I can run a sub 20 before the end of the year although this is a tough target!
I was knackered a week last Sat doing 24.45 (it was very hot) and this week felt good doing 23.09, I never understand it!
Mostly mental, although the slow week I set off with the 23 min pacer who did the first 2 k at 22:30 pace - I need to start a bit easy and pick the pace up so I had to let him go and was stuffed by 3.5k!
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