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Parkrun on Saturday was good. I came 20th out of a field of about 350 with a time of 20:54, and 5th in my age category. For someone who doesn't really think of themselves as a runner, or especially fit, this is pleasantly suprising. 1st place was a sickeningly fast 15 min something!
A sub 20 min 5k is something that I consider really fit people/good runners able to do, so to come within 1 min of that after a heavy week (legs were definately nowhere near fresh at the start line) has made me think "maybe I'm alright at this running lark".
Obviously I now want to go sub 20 min, but I think I'll have to limit my parkrunning because running an all out 5k every week will probably not help too much with marathon training. Maybe run to parkrun, around course, off into distance and back home will help though?
My girlfriend and son came along and she said she'd happily go to another as the atmosphere was really friendly and inclusive, double win!