parkrun, lap two

Please be advised we have had to cancel Lees Road parkrun in Ennis this week

I'm sure everyone knows this already, but yesterday I discovered an app called Garmin Connect IQ which allows you to download different watch faces for your Garmin watch (in my case Forerunner 45).

There's one that displays your Parkrun barcode (& emergency contact details).

I haven't tried to scan it yet, hopefully will on Sat., but it seems cool & handy enough.

Garmin watches scan fine for my experience with them.

Did Lees road today, was totally fine with buggy.

Not a Buggy PB course but very doable. Lovely event, and sheltered from weather a fair bit.

Had great fun, only noticed after I could have been getting free charge for me EV too!

I did make the trek out to Bushy a few weeks back in London and was glad to have made the journey. I finished in 356th place out of 1384 runners. A friend said that to me that the start is like the grand national and very much the case. For anyone looking to make the journey, what worked well for us was the district line out as far as Wimbledon and then changed over to the overground to Hampton Court and it's about a 10 minute walk to the start area from there. Had a nice breakfast in a cafe the village of Hampton Court afterwards.

Mungret isn't particularly great. It's three or four laps of a smallish park with a big hill in one corner. You can see the whole course from everywhere on the course so can be a little boring. Easy to get to though. I never did UL or the one in Clare I'm afraid.

Had the pleasure of saying hello to the male and female world record holders, for the highest number of parkrun locations ran this morning. The female runner was doing her 450th different location in Donabate this morning, the bloke was finishing his 517th different location, another one of their group was doing his 600th run, and I ran with a lady who was doing her 80th different location.

They try and head off every weekend, they flew in from the UK this morning and were heading back this afternoon. Check out this morning's results, to see all of their different locations, even more remarkable, is that the male record holder has done nearly 200 volunteer runs, on top of over 600 runs.

I like a bit of parkrun tourism myself, but 517 different locations, I didn't even know there were that many.

New parkrun started in Fethard on Sat, three laps of what looks like a very new park as lots of building work still going on. Wishing them lots of success for the future.

I did Wormwood Scrubs parkrun in London last Saturday, a smaller parkrun (avg. 61 runners per week, 100 there last week) but very enjoyable run and a very friendly bunch. It's just about a kilometre from East Acton tube stop on the central line so very convenient to get to. The whole course is on grass which is something I've only come across in parkrun a few times, there is nice pull in the course as well that you get to do twice over 2.5 laps so not a fast course but a good run. You can have a look (at the outside) of the nearby famous prison of the same name adjacent to the Wormwood Scrubs park.

Where's the other one?

Excellent. I'm in Ballinasloe but I make the trip to Portumna because although Athlone is closer (and still will be) the Portumna route is more weather robust. Mountbellew is very doable.

Did no one tell them about the all lower case rule?

Is Marley park run off tomorrow?