Any Runners On Here??
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Parkrun in Trondheim was cancelled this morning due to ice so went for a run along the waterfront where the paths were clearer. Still some ice in places but were easily avoided.
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Spent the day travelling to Bodø so went out for a half hour run in the snow before dinner. Only minus 6 Celsius but felt like minus 12 with windchill.
The winter Spine Race is on at the moment, you can track it here.
https://live.opentracking.co.uk/spinerace24/
https://live.opentracking.co.uk/spinerace24/
Jameshow
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Ouch that's going to get nasty over the next few days into the dales?
Chislenko
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So Parkrunners.
People have (believe it not) called me a miserable so and so in the past but I have a few gripes about Parkrun and wondered if I was alone.
1. Dogs. (Trip Hazard)
2. Go Chairs. (Paths are not wide enough to accommodate and someone usually ends up with a clipped heel)
3. The stop start runners who invariably stop and start directly in front of me.
4. Posers who because they have finished quickly decide to run back up the course directly into the path of us slower runners who are still trying to get to the finish line. (Furthermore they usually utter some patronising comment like "great running" Smug bas--rds.
People have (believe it not) called me a miserable so and so in the past but I have a few gripes about Parkrun and wondered if I was alone.
1. Dogs. (Trip Hazard)
2. Go Chairs. (Paths are not wide enough to accommodate and someone usually ends up with a clipped heel)
3. The stop start runners who invariably stop and start directly in front of me.
4. Posers who because they have finished quickly decide to run back up the course directly into the path of us slower runners who are still trying to get to the finish line. (Furthermore they usually utter some patronising comment like "great running" Smug bas--rds.
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It's a run not a race, it's free, it's all inclusive. Agree that the dogs on a short lead should be more rigorously enforced. Buggies are ok, I start well towards the back and the buggies are all in front of me so it's easy to navigate past them. I have been up the sharp end but am very much bringing up the rear. Sometimes a few runners doing a cooldown will pass me coming the other way, many of them I know, they're not necessarily being "smug " just generally encouraging. If they are genuinely obstructing the flow of runners out on the course have a word with the run director who will almost certainly make an announcement at the next parkruns. Above all volunteer for one of the many roles, they're fun and you get to meet the other volunteers and get to appreciate just how much work and organisation goes into your weekly free running event.
It may not be listed as a race, but for the people up front it's very much a race, but these runners shouldn't be bothered by buggies etc, the last park run I did I was passed by someone pushing a buggy, it didn't bother me I was in awe at the speed he was pushing it.
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Stuck the yaktrax on for a 5k run today as it’s gone a bit icy in Svolvær. Strong wind from the ENE giving a wind chill of minus 19C.
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A mate of mine regularly does sub-19 runs while pushing his daughter…🤪
A bloke at our local parkrun used to do around 19 to 20 minutes pushing a buggy, then one Christmas he turned up with a mate and they ran a low twenties dressed as a pantomime horse. 😂
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Yaktrax donned again today for another 5k, this time in Narvik.
-17C, feels like-26C. Hands were like ice after 2k but warmed up by the time I got back to the hotel at the 5k mark.
-17C, feels like-26C. Hands were like ice after 2k but warmed up by the time I got back to the hotel at the 5k mark.
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A mate of mine has done a long '21' like this:
