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resolve10 said:
I did Fountains Abbey (near Ripon) at the weekend. Been meaning to do for years but never got round to it, even though it's only 40 minutes away from me.
Stunning course, 56th different event but goes right to the top of my list of favourites. Highly recommend if you're in the area.
Two tips if you're considering it:
Looks a beautiful course! We are lucky that the landowners of places like this allow us to run around them.Stunning course, 56th different event but goes right to the top of my list of favourites. Highly recommend if you're in the area.
Two tips if you're considering it:
- Don't leave home with minutes to spare - 15 minute walk from the car park to the start (they even advise this on the page, my error!)
- Make sure you have a barcode on your person, I left my keyring in the car and didn't have a pdf downloaded on my phone. Zero data signal on the course so had to walk right back up the hill to the visitor centre and then back down again to get scanned...
I was back running after 2 weeks away on holiday, just cruised round chatting to a friend enjoying running in the sunshine. Somehow managed to get a Strava segment PB on a segment that includes a brutal hill (anyone who has done Colney Lane parkrun in Norwich will know the hill!) which I really don't understand as my overall parkrun time was about 90s behind my PB.
MesoForm said:
Looks a beautiful course! We are lucky that the landowners of places like this allow us to run around them.
We are indeed lucky. Hopefully the café takings go some way towards contributing to the upkeep of the facilities.Another local favourite of mine, Castle Howard, never returned after the Covid pause due to organisational difficulties so you can never assume they'll be here forever. Even more reason to get out and do any 'bucket list' runs you want to do whilst you can.
Got down to my local parkrun- first time since 2021. Malling in kent which is two laps on gravel paths around a big lake. Went out to hard on the first lap and was suffering on the second! Just about hung in there though.
19:12 (was aiming for around 19:30 so can't complain). Would be nice to get back near my parkrun PB from 10 years ago but it seems harder as the years go by! 45 seconds to find from somewhere.
Was nice to read on the email that I was 2nd in my age group but then realized 4 or the 5 guys in front of me were actually older. Which is encouraging in a way, still many years ahead of me to carry on improving.
19:12 (was aiming for around 19:30 so can't complain). Would be nice to get back near my parkrun PB from 10 years ago but it seems harder as the years go by! 45 seconds to find from somewhere.
Was nice to read on the email that I was 2nd in my age group but then realized 4 or the 5 guys in front of me were actually older. Which is encouraging in a way, still many years ahead of me to carry on improving.
I'm aiming to get back running soon, but the weather is too nice so I keep going out on my bike instead, if I'm running a bit, I'll start doing Parkrun as it'll fit in far better with all the kids stuff than trying to do local road races.
Anyway, my son did the Riverside Parkrun in Chester-le-Street last week, it was his 9th Birthday on the Saturday and he was born at 10:04pm, so technically still 12 hours under 9. So I reckon he's the probably the youngest ever Parkrunner to run the 5k race, which is cool!
Anyway, my son did the Riverside Parkrun in Chester-le-Street last week, it was his 9th Birthday on the Saturday and he was born at 10:04pm, so technically still 12 hours under 9. So I reckon he's the probably the youngest ever Parkrunner to run the 5k race, which is cool!
paulrockliffe said:
Anyway, my son did the Riverside Parkrun in Chester-le-Street last week, it was his 9th Birthday on the Saturday and he was born at 10:04pm, so technically still 12 hours under 9. So I reckon he's the probably the youngest ever Parkrunner to run the 5k race, which is cool!
I think the minimum age for parkrun is 4 isn't it? Just checked my eldest's first and she was 8 years 3 months. She was pestering me to do a 'proper' one for ages before but I wanted her to be comfortable with the 2k Junior parkrun before she did one.
Well done to your lad though, I hope he enjoyed it!
Edited by resolve10 on Monday 24th June 10:53
resolve10 said:
paulrockliffe said:
Anyway, my son did the Riverside Parkrun in Chester-le-Street last week, it was his 9th Birthday on the Saturday and he was born at 10:04pm, so technically still 12 hours under 9. So I reckon he's the probably the youngest ever Parkrunner to run the 5k race, which is cool!
I think the minimum age for parkrun is 4 isn't it? Just checked my eldest's first and she was 8 years 3 months. She was pestering me to do a 'proper' one for ages before but I wanted her to be comfortable with the 2k Junior parkrun before she did one.
Well done to your lad though, I hope he enjoyed it!
Edited by resolve10 on Monday 24th June 10:53
Oh well, yeah he really enjoyed it, said he much preferred it to the Junior events which is cool.
paulrockliffe said:
Ha ha, what? Who on earth told me it was 9 to do the 5k? He's wanted to try the longer distance for about a year now!
Oh well, yeah he really enjoyed it, said he much preferred it to the Junior events which is cool.
Sounds like he's super keen which is great to hear! Still plenty of years of parkrunning ahead of him. Oh well, yeah he really enjoyed it, said he much preferred it to the Junior events which is cool.
paulrockliffe said:
Ha ha, what? Who on earth told me it was 9 to do the 5k? He's wanted to try the longer distance for about a year now!
Oh well, yeah he really enjoyed it, said he much preferred it to the Junior events which is cool.
The age limit to sign up is younger (4), but the only other rule I'm aware of:Oh well, yeah he really enjoyed it, said he much preferred it to the Junior events which is cool.
Children under the age of eleven must be accompanied (within arm's reach) throughout the event by a parent, guardian or appropriate adult of the parent's choice.
And that's specific to the 5k. For junior there's more marshalls supervising the course.
To be fair its probably sensible waiting to let the younger ones do the whole 5k. Younger kids joints are not developed enough to be running longer distances. Under England Athletics guidance the furthest an under-13 athlete is allowed to race is 3.5km, and for 9-10 year olds it's currently 2km max. In cycling events the younger kids have to use easier gearing to protect their knees. I think in reality there is some leeway and a 9 year old will be fine doing 5km but I'd be careful how much mileage they are doing.
my first run in a month after tearing my hamstring a month ago. Only jogged round, and strolled a couple of hundred metres towards the crest of a long hill, so a crap time, but happy to have got round and had another reasonable run this morning.
Hopefully I can have a good few months injury free.
Hopefully I can have a good few months injury free.
downthepub said:
I see Rishi Sunak volunteered at Northallerton juniors, and fair play, he’s got a volunteer credit. Wonder what role he did. The cynic in me thought he might have donned the high-vis for a photo op and then buggered off. He does have prior!
He was a marshal and did quite well apparently.He's volunteered there before as well as running the 5k at Northallerton and Catterick. Not very good at remembering his barcode though.
lufbramatt said:
To be fair its probably sensible waiting to let the younger ones do the whole 5k. Younger kids joints are not developed enough to be running longer distances. Under England Athletics guidance the furthest an under-13 athlete is allowed to race is 3.5km, and for 9-10 year olds it's currently 2km max. In cycling events the younger kids have to use easier gearing to protect their knees. I think in reality there is some leeway and a 9 year old will be fine doing 5km but I'd be careful how much mileage they are doing.
The cycling rule changed. No restrictions any more.https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20...
Master Bean said:
lufbramatt said:
To be fair its probably sensible waiting to let the younger ones do the whole 5k. Younger kids joints are not developed enough to be running longer distances. Under England Athletics guidance the furthest an under-13 athlete is allowed to race is 3.5km, and for 9-10 year olds it's currently 2km max. In cycling events the younger kids have to use easier gearing to protect their knees. I think in reality there is some leeway and a 9 year old will be fine doing 5km but I'd be careful how much mileage they are doing.
The cycling rule changed. No restrictions any more.https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20...
I'm sure "youth" age groups (16 and under) still have gear restrictions. Certainly in cyclocross races I did last season they were checking cassettes and doing rollback tests for the kids bikes.
lufbramatt said:
To be fair its probably sensible waiting to let the younger ones do the whole 5k. Younger kids joints are not developed enough to be running longer distances. Under England Athletics guidance the furthest an under-13 athlete is allowed to race is 3.5km, and for 9-10 year olds it's currently 2km max. In cycling events the younger kids have to use easier gearing to protect their knees. I think in reality there is some leeway and a 9 year old will be fine doing 5km but I'd be careful how much mileage they are doing.
My son is fit from being constantly on the move since he started crawling at 5 months, plays football a few times a week, occasionally cycles with me, doesn't do any running training. He does maybe 10 events a year, just filling in when there's a quiet weekend.The UKA guidance is terribly conservative though, it's really appropriate to kids training to be the best they can be at that age and with an eye on them making it as good senior athletes later rather than being a sensible limit for occasional athletes. I mean when I was running half marathons over the Lakes Fells at 14 it didn't do me any harm, no way that would be allowed now!
I've seen countless kids train from an early age and struggle to keep going when they get to their late teens or when the have to compete against seniors and stop winning races so I deliberately don't push my kids to be anything other than fit through sport. If they want to join the local club when they're a bit older, great, but not yet.
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