My Running

I started serious exercise some years ago after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and diverticulitus in the same week- control for both is diet and exercise, so I lost some 35 kilos and started going to a free, local council-run program called "Fitness in the Park." After a few years I started running to supplement fitness in the park- now I mainly do middle-distance running, supplemented occasionally by fitness in the park. My main distances are 5 and 10k, with the odd half-marathon to stop me getting complacent. The photo is after my first-ever half marathon, at the age of 70.

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2020 in 2020

This year I signed up for the Strava challenge of running 2020Km in the calendar year 2020- this is my progress table.

Update mid-May 2020.

Due to Plantar Fasciitis all my running has had to stop for a while- for now it's just cycling & rowing.

Day #	Target (Km)	Km to date	Difference (+/-Km)	Difference (+/-Days)
295	1268.14	962.96	-665.18	-120.52
	Monthly	Totals	Km/day	from now
	January	221.1	14.89
	February	203
	March	201.1
	April	201
	May	75.38
	June	25.33
	July	10.62
	August	13.76
	September	11.67
	October	0
	November	0
	December	0

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My parkruns

Due to the COVID19 pandemic, as of March 18th, all Australian parkruns have been cancelled until further notice

Excellent news- as of October 17th, Bellerive parkrun has restarted.

In January 2016 my step-daughter introduced me to parkrun, https://www.parkrun.com.au/, a worldwide, free, timed, non-competitive, weekly 5k walk/jog/run.

You may notice some of my times are around an hour- these are when I volunteer as Tailwalker, whose job is to be the last person on the course, to carry a first aid kit, and act as first responder to take care of any problems that may occur on the run.

Parkrun relies completely on volunteers- without volunteers every week there can be NO parkrun. If every parkrunner volunteered just 3 times a year, we would always have enough. Sadly, this doesn't always happen, putting a much bigger load on the people who do volunteer, so please consider giving up just three runs a year to volunteer. The jobs are easy, fun and rewarding, and training for the various roles is given.

Ken JOHNSON (174 parkruns)

Most Recent Runs

Event	Run Date	Gender Position	Overall Position	Time	Age Grade
Bellerive parkrun	14/03/2020	89	191	39:34	45.11%
Bellerive parkrun	07/03/2020	113	234	48:49	36.57%
Bellerive parkrun	29/02/2020	104	212	36:45	48.57%
Bellerive parkrun	15/02/2020	137	333	59:37	29.94%
Bellerive parkrun	08/02/2020	117	248	39:29	45.21%
Bellerive parkrun	01/02/2020	118	289	61:53	28.84%
Bellerive parkrun	25/01/2020	109	170	31:43	56.28%
Bellerive parkrun	18/01/2020	85	131	32:11	55.46%
Bellerive parkrun	11/01/2020	183	380	73:36	24.25%
Bellerive parkrun	04/01/2020	137	287	68:01	26.24%

Event Summaries

Event	Total Runs	Best Gender Position	Best Position Overall	Best Time
Hobart parkrun	74	17	28	00:32:03	All
Bellerive parkrun	71	33	48	00:29:06	All
Nuriootpa parkrun	8	7	9	00:31:16	All
Montrose Foreshore parkrun	3	42	63	00:31:24	All
Nightcliff parkrun	3	38	51	00:32:50	All
Clare Valley parkrun	2	8	9	00:34:12	All
Launceston parkrun	2	98	160	00:31:12	All
Darwin parkrun	2	70	114	00:36:43	All
Windsor Precinct parkrun	1	23	30	00:30:02	All
Kingston Park parkrun	1	91	136	00:31:58	All
Burnie parkrun	1	39	50	00:30:10	All
Queens Domain parkrun	1	80	115	00:31:38	All
Wynyard Foreshore parkrun	1	13	20	00:30:27	All
Torrens parkrun	1	153	221	00:34:02	All
Railton parkrun	1	8	17	00:31:58	All
Palmerston parkrun	1	35	49	00:33:06	All
Geeveston parkrun	1	25	49	01:00:31	All
Totals	174	7	9	00:29:06	All

Volunteer Summary

Volunteer Total = 34

Year	Role	Number of Times
2020	Tail Walker	3
2020	Barcode Scanning	1
2019	Funnel Manager	1
2019	Pre-event Setup	1
2019	Tail Walker	13
2018	Barcode Scanning	1
2018	Funnel Manager	1
2018	Marshal	1
2018	Tail Walker	6
2017	Barcode Scanning	1
2017	Marshal	2
2016	Marshal	2
2016	Tail Walker	1

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