Fairview parkrun | Fairplay to a First Class Fairview parkrun
According to the econonmist the word of the week is “revenge travelling”, to describe pent-up demand for getaways after time spent at home in the pandemic. Julie and I are definitely revenge travelling. We’re personally sticking it the Vladmir Putin by cycling to parkrun, work and anywhere that keeps us from buying oil. We’ve been to Pompeii, Naples and Rome on Honeymoon. We’ll be in Stormont in three weeks (we’re taking the train) and Aer Lingus have flights to Paris going for a song in November 2022. In keeping with my random sprinkling of politics in this blog revenge has travelled to Number 10 Downing Street this week where Boris Johnson felt the brunt of it. Most importantly it feels way better if you’re revenge travelling around parkruns in Ireland.
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Poolbeg parkrun | Cool in Poolbeg
On June 25th 2022 Julie and I continued our wild parkrun adventure at Poolbeg parkrun. Like most people around the country we’re looking at the price of fuel and mentally selling off the car before it bankrupts the family. With this in mind Julie and I have both registered for the cycle to work scheme and we’ve started cycling to parkrun (amongst other places work etc). The irony of cycling to Poolbeg was not lost on us. The parkrun is right next too an oil reserve.
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Tymon parkrun | An 8 Year Triumph
Julie and I visited Tymon parkrun on June 11th 2022. If you’re obsessed with fast, flat, gently curved and slightly downhill then this is the place to go. I’d go so far as to say this could easily hold a parkrun world record if a burgeoning Olympian has a free Saturday morning to cut loose with a barcode.
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Cafarella parkrun | Rome | Italy | May 7th 2022
Julie and I are now married over two weeks. Yes everything has changed. Julie now insists that I run behind her at every parkrun…..I’m kidding it’s weird running with my wedding ring on and any advice on that would be appreciated? Otherwise we’re on honeymoon and this is our tall parkrun tale from Italy.
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Clonakilty parkrun
For 4 laps I slugged it out on this course eventually finishing in second in an abysmal time of 23:12. Thank god I beat the ten-year-old in the sprint finish. To put this in context in 2019 at Glen River an 11 year old thundered past me in the last 5 meters. I never saw him coming. The Glen River crew have never let me forget it since.
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Mallow parkrun | Magnificent Mania in Mallow
The week before Glen River came back I had a walk through with John and met the Mallow parkrun crew. I thought to myself I need to visit them they’re fun.
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Ballincollig parkrun & Glen River parkrun : New Years Day Double
In what seemed like 30 seconds we knew we could deliver a New Years Day Double. Ballincollig quickly agreed to go early at 9:30 am and we would go off at 11 am. The New Years Day Double was on.
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Glen River parkrun
When I am Run Director at Glen River if you so much as move a cone to help the parkrun I document a volunteer credit in the run report for you. I never let an opportunity to give encouragement pass me by at parkrun.
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