Date: 28 October 2017
Distance: 5km
Time: 32:10
Previous: 2015

217 (in 2017 :-)) participants turned up for the inaugural Palmy Parkrun.

Kate doing briefing.

Starting at the Fitzherbert Bridge, participants run/walk upstream for 2.5km, before turning around and running/walking back.

The Bridle Track is the perfect course for this event.

A sunny, warm and windless day for the first one.

A beautiful course next to the river.

The out-and-back course makes for a very social outing.

The fast runners zooming past.

The track is still open to the public, but we didn’t see many people around that early.

The turn-around point.

One of the friendly marshals on the course.

Next up, Feilding Moa’s Marathon, and shorter distances.

Suzanne busy scanning Gerry’s barcode.

As I’ve mentioned before, parkrun has started in 2004 already, and has worldwide been on the scene since 2007. The only other parkrun I’ve done, is the one in Hamilton some two years ago. The stats have changed considerably since then with the amount of locations (more than 1200) nearly double what it was in 2015! Continue reading →