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.
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.
| Event | Run Date | Gender Position | Overall Position | Time | Age Grade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bellerive parkrun | 02/01/2021 | 91 | 153 | 32:28 | 55.70% | Bellerive parkrun | 01/01/2021 | 62 | 101 | 32:45 | 55.22% | Bellerive parkrun | 26/12/2020 | 64 | 119 | 32:49 | 55.10% | Bellerive parkrun | 25/12/2020 | 72 | 135 | 33:21 | 54.22% | Bellerive parkrun | 19/12/2020 | 95 | 177 | 35:59 | 50.25% | Queens Domain parkrun | 12/12/2020 | 61 | 122 | 34:28 | 51.79% | Bellerive parkrun | 14/03/2020 | 89 | 192 | 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% | |
| Event | Total Runs | Best Gender Position | Best Position Overall | Best Time |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellerive parkrun | 74 | 33 | 48 | 00:29:06 | All |  |
| Hobart parkrun | 74 | 17 | 28 | 00:32:03 | 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 | |
| Darwin parkrun | 2 | 70 | 114 | 00:36:43 | All | |
| Clare Valley parkrun | 2 | 8 | 9 | 00:34:12 | All | |
| Launceston parkrun | 2 | 98 | 160 | 00:31:12 | All | |
| Queens Domain parkrun | 2 | 61 | 115 | 00:31:38 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Wynyard Foreshore parkrun | 1 | 13 | 20 | 00:30:27 | All | |
| Torrens parkrun | 1 | 153 | 221 | 00:34:02 | All | |
| Totals | 178 | 7 | 9 | 00:29:06 | All |
| 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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