Yay Parkrunday

I do love Saturdays when I'm not working, I try and take part in my local parkrun at Gorleston Cliffs. Today was the 9th Anniversary of my local parkrun apparently it started with 10 runners, now we generally get over 300 runners. This is amazing to think that so many people come out to run or walk the free timed course. It's a fun run, it doesn't matter how fast or slow anyone is, it's just about taking part and getting moving. To celebrate the 9th anniversary the mayor of Great Yarmouth started the run.

Today was my 62nd parkrun and I loved it as much as I loved my first. It's the feeling of being part of something. I do all my training on my own so it's nice once a week to join others with the same passion as myself.

I had quite a good run today considering I still have very sore toes from running the London Marathon 6 days ago. For the last few weeks I've just been using parkrun as a easy run running with my daughter. Today I ran alone and tried a little harder. I thought I was running pretty fast but I was still no where near my best time although a lot faster than I have run for a long while.

The weather wasn't the best, it was a bit damp, not very warm and fairly windy especially along the bottom of the cliffs when it was a headwind. We had to do that bit twice, the second time was where the finish is so it was quite hard work. My time 26.53, I'm pleased with that I haven't been in the 26's for a while, hopefully now I'm not marathon training I can improve on this.

Here's the stats from strava.