Ireland and Wales on the run

And beer seller!

A rerun for me of Queen's parkrun in Belfast. The night before we'd considered walking to meet our George and Fiona at Bob Stewart's for a nice meal but changed our mind and caught a cab - thank goodness we did as it was a long two miles drive and we'd have suffered at the parkrun. I finished in 23:13 which was down a couple of minutes or so on three years ago but I'm still in recovery mode - Vicky enjoyed her run in 33:49 and still looked sprightly on our walk round Castlewellan park in the afternoon. A surprise for us was the sign which announced the walk@castlewellanparkrun which is alternative to the couch to 5K movement which has brought so any people into parkunning.

Can we all have one?

The following week we found ourselves up early on our way to Anglesey listening to Tony Blackburn playing 'Sounds of the Sixties'. This time he came up with a gem that we'd not heard before by The Supremes - who remembers 'Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'? Admittedly not one of Diana Ross's best but the title alone should have ensured success - what went wrong? Perhaps the film failed to inspire! Of course we were headed for a parkrun, a fairly new event this was the Newborough Forest parkrun which threads through the pine forest by the very nice beach at Newborough. At event number 8 we were joined by fellow outfitter Joe, who was making his parkrun debut - from the start he shot off into the distance finishing in a creditable 12th position. I was 34th in 23:01 and Vicky completed the run with Skip in 32:51. This was a fairly warm humid day but it will be great to run this on a cold frosty winter's morning (when the tourists are no longer around perhaps!)

Outfit we are!