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It is getting increasingly difficult to find any new parkrun venues within driveable distance of home. The compulsion to add just one more to the list however remains strong within me and so this morning I was up early and headed up the M1 towards the ...
One of the good things about parkrun tourism is that it gives me a chance to see some of those places that I had always meant to visit. I must have driven past the village of South Petherton hundreds of times on my way down to Devon or Cornwall, but I ...
It’s getting harder and harder to find new parkrun venues to visit. I have completed all the events in London and the southeast and now have to accept the need for a long journey to get to any new venue. This morning I decided to make the effort and h...
It is getting increasingly difficult to find new parkruns to go to. I have completed all the parkruns in London and the south east and so any new additions on the list will require a long journey on a Saturday morning. Weymouth is on the outer limit ...
I was back on the parkrun tour bus today, after a short break, with a visit to Tidworth.
Tidworth is a small town in Wiltshire, on the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain. This is an area with strong links to ancient history. Stonehenge is only a few mil...
Another away day this weekend. One of my other interests is going to the theatre and at least once a year I try and get myself up to Stratford upon Avon to see some Shakespeare (It was Richard the Third on Friday evening). It does give me the chance ...
I’ve been away … in Cornwall! My mother’s family are from Cornwall so I have many fond memories of childhood holidays there. Still to this day I try to get down there at least once a year to check up on how my folks are doing. I love visiting Cornwal...
It was a return journey to Kent for my parkrun today. I thought I had seen the last of Kent, having done all the parkruns in that county. And I hadn’t foreseen a return to Maidstone, having previously done Maidstone parkrun (along the River Medway). ...
Well that was a memorable day out in Gloucestershire. One of the main drawbacks of the pandemic was that for many months we were unable to get out and reconnect with old friends. I had almost forgotten the pleasure of linking up with some familiar fac...
Back on the tourist trail today with a visit to Edenbrook Country parkrun, which is on the western side of Fleet in Hampshire. Fleet is only a short journey for me as it is just the other side of Hampshire. I know the town pretty well and its surround...
A bit of a longer journey today. Having done nearly every parkrun within easy reach of home, I have to travel further and further to find one I haven’t done. But there are some places which I fancied checking out so today I made the journey down to th...
Well I thought I should get myself back on the parkrun tour bus. It’s been a few weeks. The trouble is … having completed over 250 parkrun events I am running out of places to go that are within a reasonable driving distance. I have done nearly all t...
Well … you can’t win them all! At my age you are lucky to win anything at all! To explain - I had hoped to run the London Marathon in April 2020. This would extend my marathon running career into a sixth decade. As we all know, there was no London M...
So off I went to another parkrun venue. It is getting very difficult now to find a parkrun venue which I haven’t visited before, within easy reach. I have thus far visited 252 different parkrun events and have made it to all the parkruns in London and...
I was delighted to be heading back to Oxford for my parkrun today. I have been to the city twice before to take part in parkruns but on those occasions the events were on the outskirts of the city. University Parks parkrun would be right in the middle...
So where do you go once you have completed 250 different parkrun events? Obviously you head off for number 251. There are always other targets to aim for. I would like to get my outright total of parkruns up to 300 (currently on 291) And I would lik...
When parkrun restarted back in July I considered what my targets should be and my first aim, I decided, would be to get my total of parkrun venues up to 250. I wanted to crack on and get the next 33 done (I was on 217 venues at the time) because I coul...
It was time for another trip across the Dartford crossing today with a visit to Wickford Memorial parkrun.
Wickford is a medium-sized town (pop. 33,000) in Essex, adjacent to Basildon. There is evidence of habitation here going back at least two thous...
This week parkrun is celebrating International Women’s Day, a cause I am always happy to support. When I started running back in the 1970s, you would not see women taking part in running events. Indeed they were barred from running longer distances; i...
So here we go again. In recent months a couple of new parkruns have started up in the Greater London area, so if I wanted to maintain my LonDone status I would have to go up there again. Thus it was that this morning I was headed for Southall.
Southa...
So on we go! I looked at the weather forecast for this week and thought it might be best to stay fairly local. So I took a short trip down the A3 to Portsmouth to attend the fifth running of Great Salterns parkrun. A lot of parkruns have been cancell...
I have decided to continue on with my parkrun reports. They help to keep my mind usefully occupied and I like to have something to look back on. I’m still intent on getting to that 250 venues target by the end of March and so today I was headed to Gra...
So on we go with the parkrun tourist trail and this week I was headed for the town of Swanley.
Swanley is on the south-eastern edge of Greater London. Technically it belongs in Kent but it is inside the circle of the M25 so it could also qualify as a ...
So off I went on my second parkrun of 2022. There was one slight difference though in that, since last Saturday, I have had my 65th birthday and am therefore in a different age group. I can’t honestly say that I enjoy getting older but I can be grate...
