11/8/2022 0 Comments You will never get the cake![]() ![]() I’d love to do it with her but it’s a fair distance away from me and I haven’t been able to get there so I was really excited that I was finally able to see her (and join her!) running. Such a good cause. Ellie is almost six years old and has been doing Junior parkrun quite a bit lately with her dad. It was a charity race for Ben’s Heroes and entry was £3. Very pleased!!Īfterwards my sister, her fiancée and Meg and Ellie, her two daughters, met up with me so Ellie could run a children’s fun run which was happening in the park at 10.30am. My label said Anna Jayne Smith ( *sighs*) so the person didn’t know me that well but they knew me well enough to get me very posh Strawberry and white chocolate cake and a Christmas pudding shaped chocolate slab. Thanks again to my official blog photographer, Mark, for the photo □ We all crammed into the café and exchanged gifts. Jeeze that’s a challenge! Maybe in a few months… I did do some investigation on Strava to see what my fastest time on this course was and found it’s 21:57 in March this year. ![]() I think if I was really pushing for a specific time I might wear some motivating music, but at the moment I’m enjoying ‘naked’ runs. I’ve taken a minute off my faster time from a few weeks ago. I’ve found it distracts me and makes me feel claustrophobic. It’s funny because I’ve stopped listening to music at parkrun now. I really kept my mind focused on the effort. However I was really chuffed with some very even splits. I got 22:59 which I’m over the moon with. I think I stayed with her for all of about 100m before she was like a blip in the horizon! Even my friend Chris who I used to be faster than pre-injury zoomed away despite being hungover having not left the pub last night until 1am. At the start I was quite concerned that I was stood next to my super speedy friend, Michelle, but she assured me she was taking it easy having run eight miles already. There were loads of guys from the running club running as well because it was our club’s Secret Santa. It was great to see so many familiar faces. There’s something about running that just brings people together in a good way. They were all really supportive when I had my rough times earlier in the year as well. They’re all just so lovely and we have a good laugh. ![]() I love setting up parkrun with these guys. ![]() A few us had our parkrun Volunteer 25 t-shirts on as well which worked out nicely. We decided to get a photo of our usual set-up crew which was lovely. The weather was ridiculously mild, albeit a bit windy. The next morning, as usual, was parkrun at Netley Abbey. There was even a Michael Jackson tribute singer so a few of us had a boogie. Annoyingly this pub was walking distance from my new home but I had to house(dog)-sit for my parents while they were in London over the weekend, which meant I had to drive instead. Anyway it was a great evening with most people wearing Christmas jumpers and just having a nice natter. This weekend past was pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. It was a great balance of being ridiculously busy and then nice and chilled.įriday night was a casual Christmas drinks evening with some running club friends at the pub. ![]()
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