My first newcastle park run

I heard about parkruns a few months ago, but hadn’t had a chance to get to one until this week. They are a weekly 5k run, ran in parks around the Uk.  They are free to enter,  you simply sign up, on the parkrun website, print off your barcode and turn up ready to run.

5k is a little shorter that I would normally run, being more of a distance runner, but i surprised myself by running a 21:55. There was pretty mixed field with a few really fast runners and a few beginners, but i was pretty with the time for a first 5k.

I also set a PB for my 12 mile run home this week at 1.43 shaving a mere few seconds of my previous time, but a pb is a pb even if only by a few seconds. This pushed the total mileage for April, up to a total of 192 miles.

In many ways I had expected to be running further, with the amount of training i’ve been doing, but I hadn’t expected to be improving my speed as well.