Running and Fitness posts
This is what parkrun 2025 looked like for my family. Including a quick summary of some of our achievements this last year. Joy’s parkrun 2025 Personally for my parkrun 2025 I took 101 seconds off my PB! My age grading went up from 58.41% to 62.23%. These I can thank my third born for helping … Read more
For the last event of the year we headed to Southwick Country parkrun. It was a special one as it marked my 100th location – known as a Cowell. Plus it was my 55th parkrun this year. Giving me a Platinum Obsessive badge! It was also the last S I needed for the Snakes Challenge. See … Read more
We headed to Leamington parkrun for Christmas Day. It was just the four of us and a last minute decision. The first thing I did when waking Christmas morning to was to check the traffic and it was saying that we would need to leave by 6:30 to get to our original destination – that … Read more
Bryn Bach parkrun is the highest one in the UK. It is also a very nice course and somewhere we would definitely return to. We visited on the Saturday before Christmas. Parc Bryn Bach, Merthyr Rd, Tredegar NP22 3AY Facilities at Bryn Bach parkrun Bryn Bach parkrun boasts easy parking, toilets, food, a play area. … Read more
It was a real last minute decision to attend Daventry parkrun. In fact it wasn’t until 6:30am Saturday morning a decision was made at all. However, it meant that our youngest would finish off his alphabet challenge! Daventry Country Park, Eastern Way, Daventry, NN11 0QB. What3Words: ///prettiest.counts.lingering Facilities at Daventry parkrun Parking Okay so we … Read more
We headed to Birmingham for a gap in my floating Wilson and one of my NENDYs. Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun is in Ladywood, which is where I used to live when I lost my brother in a road traffic accident. Edgbaston Reservoir, 115 Reservoir Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 9EE. Facilities at Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun Easily to … Read more
We headed to Perry Hall parkrun for my 50th event this year. Having to needing to be back for work I needed to look at my NENDY list. Plus it was also their 11th anniversary we headed there. They were marking this occasion by collecting for the food bank! Perry Hall Park, Perry Avenue, Perry … Read more
It was quite a late decision to attend Marlborough Common parkrun for the tu-tu weekend! That is because it was the 22nd of the month!! See the thing is I didn’t have work, and now our son who works Saturdays can’t go at all (he’s switched to the morning shift) it meant we weren’t as … Read more
We headed to Ludlow Parkrun as I needed to be in Hereford for work and it was the NENDY to there. Offering up my time to volunteer as a park walker so that I wasn’t too tired for the 12 hr shift ahead. Little did I know that I wouldn’t actually be getting back to … Read more
We headed to Warwick Racecourse parkrun. Not only was it our NENDY but it is one near a University that our third born is considering so always nice to get a feel of the area. As it turned out he has had to swap when he works. Plus our youngest wasn’t well. So in the … Read more