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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...
So on to my third week in Australia. After leaving Adelaide, I headed back towards Melbourne but this time along the southern route, along the coastal road which is known as the Great Ocean Road.
There are some lovely drives to be had, in many differe...
My second parkrun report from Australia comes from the city of Adelaide. After the first weekend in Melbourne I set off in my hire car for a journey westwards. Driving in Australia does impress on you how vast the country is. Adelaide and Melbourne a...
I am back with you! Did you miss me? If you follow me on Facebook you will know that for the last three weeks I have been on the other side of the world in Australia. I had been planning to go to Australia all year but I had put off booking anything ...
Well time is moving on, we’re nearly in November, the clocks go back this weekend but still I have the urge to notch up another parkrun venue. This week I was headed back to Essex and to Great Notley.
Great Notley sounds like it ought to be a venerabl...
Well I keep touring. You’d have thought that I would have run out of parkrun venues to visit and, in truth, I have to travel a long way nowadays to find one that I haven’t done before. But the urge to notch up another venue remains strong and so this ...
I’ve been enjoying a weekend away in Exeter. Regular readers will know that I have a long association with this part of the world starting in 1975 when I attended the University of Exeter. I subsequently spent quite a few years living and working in t...
I had another trip down to Somerset this morning. I lived in this part of the world back in the 1980s and I like to pop back every now and then to see how they are managing. The answer is always … perfectly well without me, but I like to revisit some ...
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). ...
