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 Launceston Running Festival in 2018, at the age of 69.
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.
Point to note- when referring to the event, parkrun always starts with a lower-case p, never an upper-case P, even at the begining of a sentence.
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 during the run.
Or when I pick up the occasional injury and have to revert to walking and/or using the deadly treadly...
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose Foreshore parkrun | 26/11/2022 | 30 | 39 | 30:04 | 61.03% |
| Bellerive parkrun | 19/11/2022 | 117 | 269 | 57:38 | 31.84% |
| Queens Domain parkrun | 12/11/2022 | 88 | 140 | 32:10 | 57.05% |
| Bellerive parkrun | 05/11/2022 | 92 | 148 | 32:40 | 56.17% |
| Tynwald Park parkrun | 29/10/2022 | 13 | 22 | 32:48 | 55.95% |
| Montrose Foreshore parkrun | 22/10/2022 | 34 | 46 | 31:42 | 57.89% |
| Our Park parkrun | 15/10/2022 | 6 | 9 | 31:34 | 58.13% |
| Montrose Foreshore parkrun | 08/10/2022 | 41 | 61 | 31:14 | 58.75% |
| Montrose Foreshore parkrun | 01/10/2022 | 50 | 115 | 65:25 | 28.05% |
| Montrose Foreshore parkrun | 24/09/2022 | 19 | 27 | 30:22 | 60.43% |
| Event | Total Runs | Best Gender Position | Best Position Overall | Best Time |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellerive parkrun | 148 | 33 | 48 | 00:28:57 | All |  |
| Risdon Brook parkrun | 75 | 17 | 28 | 00:32:03 | All | |
| Montrose Foreshore parkrun | 13 | 19 | 27 | 00:28:49 | All | |
| Nuriootpa parkrun | 8 | 7 | 9 | 00:31:16 | All | |
| Nightcliff parkrun | 5 | 37 | 51 | 00:30:40 | All | |
| Queens Domain parkrun | 4 | 61 | 115 | 00:31:38 | All | |
| Our Park parkrun | 3 | 3 | 6 | 00:31:34 | All | |
| Torrens parkrun | 2 | 86 | 128 | 00:30:38 | All | |
| Palmerston parkrun | 2 | 26 | 41 | 00:30:34 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Tynwald Park parkrun | 1 | 13 | 22 | 00:32:48 | All | |
| Railton parkrun | 1 | 8 | 17 | 00:31:58 | All | |
| Geeveston parkrun | 1 | 25 | 49 | 01:00:31 | All | |
| Windsor Precinct parkrun | 1 | 23 | 30 | 00:30:02 | All | |
| Total/Best | 273 | 3 | 6 | 00:28:49 | All |
| Role | Number |
|---|---|
| Marshal | 6 |
| Pre-event Setup | 1 |
| Barcode Scanning | 5 |
| Funnel Manager | 2 |
| Tail Walker | 41 |
| Event Day Course Check | 2 |
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