With a long run with some of my fellow PWRs and Marathon trainers planned for tomorrow morning, it was an ideal opportunity to continue getting my kids involved in parkrun. My son did his first last week but didn't really fancy it this week but at 5, there's plenty of time available to him. My daughter is on her way to reaching her first parkrun milestone of 10. She is really positive about wanting to come along but can sometimes be ready to stop on the way around. Time for a proposal! Let's do parkrun together and later we can all go swimming. It worked, and not only did it get her out, she bagged herself an all time PB! Some delicious cakes afterwards, courtesy of some runners reaching their own parkrun milestones of 100 and 250 runs, and it was time to head off to the track for a coaching session. The title mentions two proposals, and for a short while, I thought my proposal was a pretty good effort at enticing a little lady around this morning's 5K. However, at around 9:00am, I was royally trumped! Run Director David took to the mic to conduct the pre-run briefing, all the usual stuff of thanking the volunteers, showing courtesy to other park users, etc. He then moved on to talk about how he had met his girlfriend as a result of a pile of logs he had shown interest in, and how he had contacted the local council about perhaps taking some of them. A quirk of fate later, and the person he had originally spoken to wasn't the person he eventually met! How different things could have been! He then went on to talk about various things in the park and of his girlfriend's involvement in some of the ongoing work. I initially wondered what other new work could be about to take place, but as he continued, it became apparent he wasn't really interested in the park at all, but his own next milestone. It was easy to sense the anticipation around the 565 runners in attendance as he called Pherenice forward, and as she reached him, he climbed down from his platform and proposed to her! The perfect environment for two lovely people who love their parkruns and even more fitting that it took place alongside what used to be the pile of logs which were the original the object of David's desires! All in all, the perfect start to the weekend.
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ABOUT MEHaving completed 5 marathons between 1999 and 2016, I decided this year, I would try to do it properly and plan my training! Alongside, I wanted to keep a blog as it went along, partly to look back on, and partly to help anyone else who may benefit from my own experiences. Archives
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