Another Saturday, another lovely morning to enjoy a parkrun! Harry Mawdsley is certainly enjoying his parkruns at the moment – indeed, he is making a habit of winning and setting PBs! He did both this week with a fantastic run at Denton Dene. We had female success too, with Niamh Garratt finishing as 1st lady at Windy Nook.
There were PBs for Anna Round, a recent parkrun enthusiast, on the Town Moor and for Aoife Campbell at Leazes Park.
A few miles up the coast at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, there was a rare parkrun outing for NIna Jensen – as part of a longer run, of course! Not sure that that counts as tourism, but we did spread ourselves as usual.
Luke Woodend ran on the west coast along the prom at Morecambe, where he spotted Tyson Fury in the field = bet nobody tried to overtake home in the finish funnel! In Yorkshire, Jim Crinnion was at Rothwell, where he is a frequent visitor, and Chris Jones the latest sky blue to sample the delights of Fountains Abbey.
Gill Milne and I (Tom Tinsley) had an early start so that we could fit in a Scottish parkrun en-route to a short holiday in Fife – thanks goodness they start at 9:30 north of the border! We chose Vogrie, partly to get a “V” for our alphabet, and we were very glad that we did. It is a nice course on trails and grass around Vogrie Country Park; the two laps wind their way through scenic woodland. There are a few ups and downs, but it is fair to say that there are hillier courses and the recent dry weather meant that the trails were rock hard, so suitable for road shoes. The cafe is in the manor house, very close to the start and finish line, and offers 20% discount to parkrunners, so we treated ourselves to a 2nd breakfast. Sitting outside in the warm sunshine (In shorts and t-shirts! In Scotland! In April! I know!), what was not to like. A bit far for a club tourism day, but a destination that I would recommend to anybody travelling north.
However, this week’s tourism award goes to Antony Darne, who travelled a bit further than the rest of us, running at Gqeberha (formerly known as Port Elizabeth) in South Africa.
