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For today’s parkrun I headed northwards up the M1 in the direction of Northamptonshire. I have seen quite a lot of the county in the past year. Today my destination was Irchester Country Park.
This particular country park is just outside Wellingborou...
It was another long trip along the M4 this week in the direction of Bristol. There are five parkruns within the Bristol area and so far this year I have visited four of them. I completed the set today with a visit to Ashton Court.
The Ashton district...
It was a return trip to Colchester this morning for today’s parkrun. You may have thought that I had done Colchester having visited Colchester Castle parkrun a couple of months ago. But no! There is a second parkrun in the city at Highwoods Country P...
For my parkrun this morning I headed back up the M40 in the direction of Royal Leamington Spa. I had been this way only recently when I visited Warwick Racecourse. The towns of Warwick and Leamington Spa have pretty much merged together to form a smal...
Another early start this morning as I headed westwards along the M4. Most of the available parkruns are a long drive away but there is a cluster around the city of Bristol which I haven’t visited yet. Thus it was that this morning I rolled up in the t...
Where to parkrun this week? Technology came to my aid in that there are now apps which will tell you which is your nearest event not yet done (NENYD) In my case that would be Wolford Wood, near to Moreton in Marsh. I have been asked if I will stop tou...
There was a last minute change of plan for this week’s parkrun. I had intended a trip along the M4 with the aim of doing one of the parkruns in the Bristol area and I had settled on Thornbury. However late in the week the Thornbury team were reporting...
Where to go for this week’s parkrun? A study of the map showed that there are a few at the top end of the M40 which I haven’t visited yet. So this morning I was headed in a northwesterly direction, heading for Dallas Burston Polo Club. This wouldn’t ...
After my long trip to Cornwall last weekend I fancied a shorter journey to parkrun this week. The problem is that I have done nearly all the parkruns in London and the southeast so most of the unvisited events are a long drive away. There is however o...
I’ve been away! I’ve been back in my beloved Cornwall. I had a number of reasons for returning here. The first is that it is one of my favourite places in the world and I love to spend some time on its beaches and in its lovely towns and villages. T...
Last week I headed to Bath, an ancient city, founded two thousand years ago by the Romans in the west of England. This week, for a change, I headed to an ancient city, founded by the Romans two thousand years ago … in the east of England. I was making ...
One of my aims in my parkrun journey is to visit places I have never been before. Today’s destination however was an old friend - I have been to Bath many times and know the city well. During the 1980s I lived and worked in Somerset and frequently vi...
There are many different reasons for choosing a new parkrun venue. Maybe to visit a part of the country unfamiliar to you, to see the sights, perhaps to celebrate an anniversary, look for a new personal best or else to meet up with friends. And someti...
For today’s parkrun I headed back along the M4, in the direction of Bristol and the town of Keynsham. I have run once before in Keynsham, albeit a long time ago. There was a cross country event, the Mike Sully Races, which was quite a major event in i...
Well it’s been a while since I last went on a parkrun journey. When last seen, I was making a misguided attempt to run around a park in Bristol, despite having done my back in a couple of days earlier. That set back my recovery and it’s only in the la...
It was another trip to Bristol today, this time to the suburb of Eastville. Bristol is quite a long way to go for a parkrun, but once you’re on the M4, you can get there relatively swiftly.
I gave you the history of Bristol on my last visit so today ...
I wasn’t sure where to go for my parkrun this week. My nearest event is getting further and further away. In the end I opted to head northwards, in the direction of Northampton, and to visit Brixworth Country Park.
I had never heard of Brixworth befo...
For my parkrun today I headed back over the Dartford Crossing and into the county of Essex. On my parkrun journey I have visited many of the major towns of Essex but today I was headed for a more rural location - the Markshall Estate near Coggeshall.
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My parkrun journey today took me on a long drive along the M4 and the city of Bristol. During the 1980s I lived in Somerset and would occasionally visit Bristol but I have never taken part in a running event there and my knowledge of the city is rathe...
My parkrun today took me on a long trip up the M1. Having completed all the parkruns in London and the south east, I am finding it increasingly hard to find new parkruns within driveable distance. I do have an ambition of bringing my total of parkrun ...
It’s the bleak midwinter! Frosty winds may moan. Ground as hard as iron. Water like a stone. Nevertheless parkrun tourism carries on. Just when you think that you have completed all the parkruns in London, another new one pops up. And so today I w...
For my first parkrun outing of 2023, I made a return trip to the town of Romsey. People with an extraordinary memory will recall that I visited Romsey to run my 200th different venue at Mountbatten school. The bad news is that the Mountbatten School e...
So here we are! It’s the final day of 2022, the final Saturday and the last chance to run a parkrun this year. It’s been a pretty successful year with regards to parkrunning. I have managed to run a parkrun on every single Saturday of the year, inclu...
Since my little detour to Australia there have been a few new parkruns starting up in the southeast and, always feeling the urge to add to my total, I chose to head off on Christmas Eve to Leavesden Country Park.
Leavesden is on the north western edge...
