The XC Season is Over - Hooray!

Underground Parkrun perhaps?

This is the second Parkrun run we've done at a venue that used to be a colliery, in this case it was the Rising Sun Colliery at Wallsend, near Newcastle on Tyne. One of the world's largest deep coalmines, it contained over 60 miles of tunnels and coal was hauled to the surface by pit ponies. Now it's a wildlife park home to various species of plant and birdlife, oh and a very popular Parkrun. Not much sun rising on this dark wet February morning though but we did scoot round quite rapidly to the finish to get out of the wind. I topped the age graders with 80.23% and a time of 21:05 - I thought I'd gone very well and the organiser told me that the course was actually "a wee bit over distance". Vicky  rushed round in 36:21 and promptly got changed into her work gear for a 10 am start at the office!

Certainly the muddiest cross country season I've ever encountered and we both completed all five fixtures earning first male V65 first and third lady V60 awards. I was also surprised to get a medal for our club being second team in the men's 2nd division hence gaining promotion - we turned out in force in the final fixture at Oswestry to pip Wrexham to the post.