Parkside Runners

SUNDAY SOCIAL RUN
Tesco Extra Highwoods
30/01/22

After Parkside having a weekend off to attend The National Running Show it is time to roll up the sleeves and resume with training for spring and put a solid block of training in.
Our focus until May is the half marathon distance, with a choice of progressive schedules to build up to the 13.1 miles.
This week the choice is 7 or 10 miles, or if you just want to do a 5k why not come along for the first loop, any company is always appreciated.

Here are the routes and start times.
0900 3 MILES
https://gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4673505.html

0930 7 MILES
https://gb.mapometer.com/running/route_5336194.html

See you there.

300122. Mapometer.com running route #5336194 300122. Sport: running, Distance:6.92 miles / 11.13 km, route no: 5336194. See route map, elevation profile and description

Things I learned this weekend at The National Running Show.

I look fab in pink animal print leggings.

Ex-Olympians can still shift if they find themselves alone in a Gents with a man in pink animal print leggings.

My son is the King of Freebies. That's definitely the Yorkshire genes on show. From race entries to stress balls he racked up the goodies, I don't think.he came back empty handed once. It's those eyelashes.
And the fact he's a total chancer.

Standing up for 8 hours is harder on the old feet than running for that long.

This week coaches in athletics clubs up and down the country will be hearing things like "Steve Cram says......" or "The man at the Expo said...." from runners they've been saying the exact same advice to for ages without success.

Caffeine chewing gum is meant to "energise" you. It certainly encouraged me to run to the nearest bin if that counts. Bleurgh.

The people of Birmingham are super friendly, but less keen on signposts. Seriously, it's the NEC, it's a footpath to the NEC. Why not let people know.
Even Google Maps doesn't know how to walk there. Let a few people know about it.

Designed By Sports not only makes great, sometimes bright pink leggings. But for some reason everyone they know is slightly bonkers, myself included. It makes for a great weekend