With parkrun off for the foreseeable future, but people still allowed to exercise outside, we cam up with our own 'non-parkrun parkrun'.
I wasn’t sure if my daughter would do another Parkrun, as she found her first one quite hard, so I was pleasantly surprised when she said she wanted to do it again. It helped that her best friend was running it. Her friend, who she ran the cross country with last year, is incredible. She ran […]
A few weeks ago, while I was away at the MAD Blog Awards, my husband managed to convince both boys to join him and my daughter on the Parkrun. Ever since, I’ve been trying to persuade them both to join us again. While my eldest had done a couple of runs, alternately encouraging daughter to […]
We used to see them running when my daughter went swimming. It looked good fun – serious runners and fun runners, adults and kids, all running together on a Saturday morning. ‘We’ll do that when you finish swimming lessons,’ I told my daughter. She finished swimming lessons a year ago. We never did it. She […]
I was feeling genuinely proud of getting my whole family out for Parkrun and really hoped it would happen again soon. But it soon became clear it wouldn’t be happening the following week. Not even my number one Parkrun companion, my daughter, was going to make it. She had felt dizzy the night before, gone […]
50 Parkruns is the first milestone Parkrun for adults (kids also hit a milestone at 10 Parkruns and all my kids have got their 10 Tshirt). It is marked by earning a red Parkrun 50 Tshirt and, at our Parkrun at least, you get your name read out by the run director and a round […]
Every time either me or the kids do something good at Parkrun, I blog about it. But I’m aware I’m blogging about Parkrun quite a lot and it’s pretty niche. I suspect most of my readers aren’t interested. I’m not saying I’ll never blog about Parkrun ever again, but I’ve decided to collect these small […]
Tune in to Brad Beer's interview on parkrun adventurers
Following our earlier post on Parkrun triumphs, here’s another round-up of my family’s Parkrun achievements. On 12th March, my husband told me he was going to beat my PB. This must have been like red rag to a bull because somehow I found it in me to beat the PB I’d held for five months […]
On our first morning in Copenhagen, we did what we always do on a Saturday morning - parkrun! We ran at Amager Faellad, the first parkrun outside the UK.
It's been a busy year of parkrun for my whole family. Here's our parkrun triumphs of 2018 - from PBs to milestone parkruns...
Saturday mornings for us are always busy. In fact, pretty much all of our time is busy. The last time we did Parkrun, we realised we wouldn’t be able to do it again for four weeks. But we would be able to manage it last weekend – the boys were on Scout camp and the […]
PBs, milestone parkruns and volunteering - a year of triumphs at parkrun for my family from my 4 year old nephew to my 74 year old dad.
A year of parkrun triumphs for my extended family - from PBs to milestones, finishing as first lady and some volunteering...
I love Parkrun and try to run it every single week. I want to reach 100 Parkruns by Christmas. But, over the summer, I missed three Parkruns, due to visiting friends, our holiday to Padstow and the kids going on Scout camp. Missing these runs coincided with our Parkrun changing its course. It was a […]
2023 was a good year of parkrun triumphs for my whole family from my 8 year old nephew to my 78 year old dad...
How did you start your Christmas Day? A 4am wake-up call from the kids or crawling out of bed at 9am with a hangover? Did you have a fry-up for breakfast or salmon and bucks fizz? After our 6am wake-up call and present unwrapping, we did the Parkrun! As soon as we heard that there was a […]
I started parkrun in May 2015 and in May 2022 I ran my 250th parkrun - a big milestone for any parkrunner...
Cupcakes made with a parkrun theme. All toppers are edible
