Brody The Runner

  As a parkrunner , volunteering is a great way to give back to the communit y. For me volunteering is as big a journey as running p arkruns . You get to talk to people you don’t normall y talk to, and you get to see your favourite course at a different angle. Anyways, this is my experience of volunteering at Park run.   (Image description: Me with my parkrunner of the month shirt. I got it in a month where I volunteered regularly. I might fit into it someday)  So, for the first year at Parkrun I did not volunteer at all , the idea of not running for one week put me off from volunteering.  My mum would always remind me to volunteer, but I still wouldn’t do it.   However, on the same week I was running the Portadown 10K, I decided to volunteer as a way to give back to the community and get something off my bucket list. A benefit of being a volunteer that week was partly the number pick up for the Portadown 10K was at City Park . Kill two birds with one...

  While making these blogs, I reflected on the training I was doing at th at time. It was interesting how different my training was and if you remember back in my first parkrun post, to me, it didn't make sense . This got me thinking about how my training plan progressed and what were the key events tha t changed it.   So, let’s take a look at the evolution of my training.   Now, at beginning, just before my first parkrun I had no idea how to make a training plan. I knew that some days should focus on speed , and some should focus on distance, but that was about it. I didn’t know what a recovery run , intervals or tempo run was. So, for the first month my training was all over the place. There wa s ver y little consistency between weeks, and for the most part it looked like I did what ever I felt like . Notable things I would do during this period included  not run ning over 5k, running on a Sunday, and a strange ob session with the 1 mile, since I like...

Over the last two years I have done over 100 parkruns . Therefore, I have had a lot of random experiences during these parkruns . However, a lot of these stories are not that long to have their own blog post. So, I have decide d to combine these stories together into one blog post, as I do find them interesting, and wish to t ell them.   Alright , the first story took place in the University of Stirling parkrun back in October of 2023. Now, a little background. This was my second attempt at the University of Stirling parkrun since my first time was back in the summer of 2022. I wasn’t happy with my first attempt, so I was very determined to get a huge Pb. However , the previous weekend I was sick, so my fitness took a bit of a dro p.   (Image description: Me before the start of the University of Stirling parkrun) Now, on the day I was feeling good. I managed to recover some of my fitness during the week. So, during the first 3k I was running fast, and was ahead of...