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Oak Hill Parkrun #2

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Grey, gloomy, and raining. Although, like most British weather, it cleared up soon after starting the run.   No records broken this week, but did get two trophies.

You finished in 41st place and were the 37th male out of a field of 75 parkrunners and you came 9th in your age category VM35-39. Take a look at this week’s full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.

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Oak Hill Parkrun #1

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parkrun logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My first attempt at a Parkrun. Official results: #63 overall, #47 male, #8 in age-range 35-39. Total participants: 102. Official time of 26:15.

You finished in 63rd place and were the 47th male out of a field of 102 parkrunners and you came 8th in your age category VM35-39. Take a look at this week’s full set of results on our website. Well done on your first run. We have set this as your PB.

It was in familiar surroundings – Oak Hill Park is my local park and I’ve spent many hours running through it. It may not be as big as some other local parks (e.g. Trent Park) and does suffer from clouds of flies in the evenings, but in the early mornings, pounding the paths is great fun.

My phone’s GPS fritzed again, so my Endomondo and ZR tracks were messed up. Lucky I had my SportsWatch. And the run, with the semi-competitive environment meant I destroyed my 5K PB, and managed to just get a sub-8min mile

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See you next week?

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR, Nike+

Weekday Run #10

First run after a long break with diminished lung capacity. Finally felt good enough to give a 5K a try. Whilst I was at it, I tried changing my running posture.

And busted my 1K PB by 12 seconds. I guess this proves (if proof was needed) that your posture helps your running.

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Tracks: Endomondo, ZR, Nike+

Weekday Run #9

As with run #8, no target. Just trying to recover. Felt better today. Faster, and lasted longer. Still nowhere near what I used to be able to do a few weeks ago. The pollution must had wreaked havoc on my lungs, and its taking time to repair.

Found my Fitbit – it was still clipped to my PJs.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR, Nike+

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Weekday Run #8

No target, just constantly trying to recover my lung capacity and fight some kind of sneeze/cough combination cold. Difficult to run any major distances. Not helped by the fact I’ve lost my Fitbit somewhere, and can’t find it either in my house or on the 3K route. Guess I’ll have to use Fitbit solely for weight tracking now.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR, Nike+