This is one of my favourite runs and this year there were quite a few Striders taking part. It was a beautiful day for a race, still, sunny and not too cold. It was a bit muddy and parts of it felt very like cross country. The first half contains quite a bit of uphill, … Continue reading Jolly Holly Jog
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Jon’s turn for relative visiting saw us heading north via Eastbourne after Christmas and never one to miss either a parkrun or a parkrun tourism opportunity we decided to give Eastbourne parkrun a go after a very nice evening spent with his Aunt and Uncle. It’s a reasonably small parkrun with only around 100 regulars … Continue reading Eastbourne parkrun
Two lap course, twice up quarry side. The stretch along the moor edge tested everyone with gale force wind. Pulled head buff down and neck buff up to leave only an eye slit. Thought of the day was ‘Eat more mince pies’ – to weigh me down as blown sideways. Mike Bennett,1st MV55 and I, … Continue reading Guisborough Woods Fell Race
Basically, see last years report for Lower Hutt parkrun, December 2012 but imagine Santa outfits, Christmas hats and a 9:00 am start. We arrived early at the course and met the race director Richard McChesney. Richard, a very keen runner, had been living in the UK for a number of years and was very excited … Continue reading Lower Hutt parkrun
Leading up to Christmas we were asked the usual question of ‘what are your plans on Xmas Day’. I do not think some people quite expected the answer of ‘parkrun’ and gave us some odd looks. However we turned up, on what was a crisp but sunny morning, to find over 100 other people with … Continue reading Sedgefield Christmas Day parkrun
Jon and I were down on the South Coast visiting my family for Christmas and couldn’t resist squeezing in a parkrun while we were there. Due to a late arrival on Christmas Eve and general knackeredness we accidentally slept in on Christmas Day and therefore had to rush the present opening a bit to get … Continue reading Southampton parkrun
Alister … This is a fantastic run which I think would be perfect for a Grand Prix event and has been in previous years – as recently as 2008/9 in fact. I first ran this in 2011 although confusingly this was the 2010 event, delayed by weather conditions from its usual pre-Christmas slot. In my … Continue reading Loftus Poultry Run
It was a morning of, shall we say, varied weather conditions for which, has to be, a record entry for the 2013 Christmas Handicap. We had a record 40 runners entered, 33 of which started and 31 finishers. The theme this year was ‘Fantasy – however, you wish to interpret it’ – and Striders did … Continue reading Christmas Handicap
We’ve been waiting for a few years for Hamilton to put on a parkrun as we have visited Lake Rotoroa quite a few times for a walk and to see the Pukeko (a wading Bird). Finally we spotted (not that I’m stalking parkrun NZ or anything) that a parkrun was coming to Hamilton. Would we … Continue reading Hamilton Lake parkrun
Having done over 250 organised runs now, you’d think it would be impossible for me to find an established one I haven’t yet done. Turns out there are still plenty, including this, proudly billed as England’s oldest Road race. The weather was lousy for this one – rain, wind the lot – right up to … Continue reading Saltwell 10k