Brooks Ghost Amp heißt mein neuer Laufschuh. Er hat die mit Abstand beste Passform für meine schmalen Füße. Und die ersten Laufenkilometer haben damit richtig Spaß gemacht 🤗
Da Brooks auch den Parkrun global unterstützt, war der Kauf am Ende in doppelter Hinsicht sehr gut 👍🙂

#laufen #running #brooks #parkrun

Parkrun 04: Sittard (Niederlande)
Mein erster Parkrun außerhalb von Deutschland 🥳 Und das direkt auf so einer Highspeed-Strecke mit einigen ziemlich schnellen Teilnehmern. Das war auch der Grund, warum ich mit 25:19 eine - für mich - unglaublich schnelle Parkrun-PB gelaufen bin.
Das tolle Wetter, der schöne Park und die netten Mitläufer haben das Ganze abgerundet 👍 Aber irgendwie sind die Niederlande doch immer eine Reise wert 🙂

#laufen #running #parkrun #sittard

Exciting to collect my “Q” #parkrun on Saturday at Queen’s in Glasgow.

A lovely lapped route (hilly yes but down as well as up) with the utter cherry and icing on top being a catch up with the fabulous Matt who I first ran with in 2017 as part of my #PeoplePowerRun.

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Selfie of Matt and Emily running. He is wearing his green parkrun 250 milestone tshirt. Emily is wearing her apricot Longrun Meadow parkrun tshirt.

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Photo of a parkrun volunteer holding up a sign that reads “HAUD YER WHEESHT TRANSLATION: PLEASE BE QUIET AS THE RUN DIRECTOR IS TALKING”

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Photo of Emily and Matt running. Emily is gesticulating widely with her arms. The spire of the Baptist Church is in the background.

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Photo of Emily, Matt and Tabitha with the “Queen’s, Glasgow” parkrun sign.

I ran my fastest #parkrun in 2026 today and celebrated parkrun's 22nd birthday! (Tutu, get it?) Official time was 22:12, 8s faster than the 2026 best I got from August, and was my best since Nov 27, 2025 Turkey Trot. It's still 1+ min off my 21:05 PR, but I'll take it!

Thank you parkrun, for leading me into the wonderful world of #running and for all the friends I've made along the way, 117 parkruns and counting!

#5K #pnw #photo

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Pre-run briefing at the Perrigo Park shelter in Redmond: the run director, in an orange tutu and a blue volunteer vest, reads from a sheet beside the START sign while runners and volunteers in hi-vis vests gather under the covered picnic shelter.

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Me in an orange tutu, orange cap, sunglasses, black compression socks and red racing shoes, hands on hips by the finish sign at Perrigo Park, with bright gold fall trees and other runners behind.

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Fall at Perrigo Park: a row of trees in gold, yellow and green along the parking lot fence, dark firs behind them, under a cloudy blue-gray sky.

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Left: route map of the Perrigo parkrun, the track colored by heart rate from green to red, above a chart of heart rate and pace against distance, HR climbing to about 160 by half a mile and holding 160 to 164, pace mostly 7:00 to 7:20 per mile. Right: per-mile splits, miles at 7:07, 7:09 and 7:19 with HR 153, 161 and 162 and cadence 195 to 197, above CoachMiles's notes: 22:12 official, 8th of 83, 69.22% age grade, the best parkrun of 2026, and a full minute under the predicted 23:12.

For this week’s #parkrun I pulled both calf muscles roughly 800 metres into the run and had to walk-jog the rest of the 5km. Still sore tonight but applying a cold press and will be back next week! #mastodaoine

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Image displays performance stats for a running event. Key details include: - Location: Glen River - Time: 36 minutes 53 seconds - Pace: 7:22 per kilometer - Position: 50th place

Still feeling a bit wiped out by Tuesday's covid vaccine (yesterday's 5k felt like I'd never run in my life), but I wasn't about to let the bigots win, so cycled to my usual #parkrun in the drizzle (I'm a fair weather cyclist). No sign of any Reality Rules Runners (why do bigots love the same letter three times?) and no-one with it as their club listed in the results.

Still glad to wear my Trans United FC top (still a bit too warm for a t-shirt, particularly such a thick one) and trans flag wristband.

Recalibrating effort post-vaccine so couldn't run to feel and just ran for a solid 23:30, which was my highest age grading here since the end of August (68.99%). On Run Director duties next week.

#running #RunnersOfMastodon

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A woman in a pink, blue and white football top and sunglasses takes a selfie in front of the Ashton Court mansion and parkrun sign. Overlaid are running stats: 4.98km distance, 23:30 activity time, 287kcal, 4'43"/km average pace.

My 222nd #parkrun on their 22nd birthday. And I finished in 22:22.

No, that's a lie. I'm not that fast, but imagine if I had! Anyway, I went to Crystal Palace for the second time. Quicker than I was three years ago, beautiful weather. Nice start to the weekend.

Another #parkrun ticked off in the Lake District at Penrith. A good time too.

#running

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I donned the hi-vis at #parkrun this morning, to hand out finish tokens at Hillsborough, in Sheffield. I've not volunteered in that role before, but it's a nice one to do - you get to see all the runners all full of pride and achievement, and tell them well done, it's a nice feeling :)

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A man with long hair, a beard and glasses, wearing a pink hi-vis jacket and standing on a path next to some green railings in a park.

Locke Park was looking a bit moody when we turned up for #parkrun today, and there was definitely a proper chill in the air for the first time.

Possibly related, I had great success with my pacing today and not only hit my target time but felt like I could've kept sprinting for a while more.

Maybe all that struggling to run through the summer is about to pay off!

#Redcar #Running

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A wide, straight path leads away from the camera, fallen autumn leaves scattered across it and covering the grass on either side. Along both sides of the path are various bushes and trees stretching off into the distance, mostly still green but definitely on the turn. The low sunlight is giving extra contrast between the shadows and lit sections on the path.

Pleased to report absolutely no sign of any bigots protesting at our #parkrun today. Just lots of lovely people having a run/jog/walk in the park together #community

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View across the park towards the start of parkrun. Lots of participants are gathered on the tarmac path next to the playground. The ground is wet from previous rain and the sky is overcast

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My feet in running shoes with blue and pink trans pride laces

Blackpool #Parkrun

4 minutes faster than last week.

Turns out I still have my pace & stamina when on a non undulating parkrun ran largely on tarmac that is busy so I don't fly off like silly buggers at the start, and less time running means more time playing retro video games. Who knew?

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Blackpool Parkrun

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#parkrun
#running
#Hastings
Happy Birthday parkrun !
I'd like to buy Paul Sinton-Hewitt a beer.
Enjoy your running.
#PaulSintonHewitt

The statue in the photo could be the GF picking me up after running - but it's actually Edith Swanneck finding the body of Harold after a local battle !

September #running recap: fewer but faster miles. 251.7 → 217.0mi, pace 9'44" → 9'32"/mi. I'm at 1,882 of 2,500mi for the year, now 11.7mi *ahead* of plan (yay)!

The month opened w/ the Redmond Harvest Half, then a planned recovery week. VO₂max hit an all-time high of 55.47, and the longest run was a 20-miler before Snohomish. I also ran my 900th 5K in the latest #parkrun!

The Snohomish River Run #marathon is on Oct 11, onward! 💪

(#photo highlights in the link)

https://benjaminhan.net/posts/20260930-september-running-recap/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#pnw

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/117347113352349696

See also the legal threats against #parkrun another charity whose weekly events are facilitated entirely by unpaid volunteers.

They provide a course for anyone to run or walk around at a specified time and will provide participants with their time upon presentation of an identifying barcode.

What anyone links to that barcode in terms of name, age or gender is not policed by parkrun (no 'papers, please' or medical tests required), and for that it is targeted by those wishing to eradicate trans people from public life.

The only restriction is 'We prohibit the registration of names which include rude, offensive, political and/or inappropriate language, which may incite and/or reference any kind of violence and/or hate towards others, contain sexual connotations and/or bring parkrun into disrepute, and our decision is final.'

I would love #parkrun to be more explicitly trans-inclusive, but for their lack of desire/ability to enforce participants use their government IDs (which can (at least currently) be changed to accurately reflect gender rather than sex assigned at birth anyway) and all of the privacy concerns that such verification entails - they are threatened by a well-funded and rabid mob of literally a handful of people.

#CoachMiles prescribed an easy #parkrun today (a 20-miler is waiting for me tomorrow), and it turned out to be my 900th 5K run! I behaved for the first 2.4mi (9'14"/mi), but couldn't help but splurge on the last 0.7mi at 7'11"/mi, finishing at 6'37"/mi!

#running #5K #pnw #photo

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Start of the Redmond Central Connector Trail parkrun: a smiling volunteer in a blue parkrun vest stands by a yellow START sign under sunlit trees while runners gather on the path

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The giant mosaic REDMOND letters on a plaza in downtown Redmond, backlit by a bright morning sun in a clear blue sky, their shadows stretched across the pavement

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Route map of the 3.15-mile parkrun on the Redmond Central Connector Trail, the track colored by heart rate from green to red; below it, heart rate and pace against distance, both flat through 2.4 miles and then climbing to HR 165 and 6:38/mi pace at the finish

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Per-mile splits table: 9:13, 9:21, 8:06, then 6:37 for the last 0.14 mile, with HR 133, 136, 147, 164; below it, CoachMiles' notes on the capped first 2.4 miles, the quick finish, and a third quiet calf run in a row

Photographic evidence.

#parkrun #MS #MultipleSclerosis #FuckMS

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A photo of a tall man wearing a t-shirt with a cow wearing mirrored sunglasses (from the MK half marathon in 2017) crossing the line at parkrun with the funnel visible to one side and one of the timers in a high viz vest to the right. I look knackered.

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A group of runners on a path through a wood. I’m in the middle wearing a white t-shirt and white sunglasses. My wife is on my left hand side in a dapple of sunshine and there are various other runners around us. This is about 1km in, so I don’t look that knackered at this point. I’m wearing a big brace on my left leg to try and stop my weaker side making me fall over when I don’t lift my foot up properly.

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First parkrun in quite a while this morning as had a free day from my training block so took a trip to the St Helens one, just a 20 minute drive away. Things didn’t go quite to plan as I ended up only running 4k instead of the full distance as I was directed the wrong way by one of the volunteers. Oh well! #Running #parkrun #polarrunning #runnersofmastodon

#parkrun number 315 for me this morning. I don’t run much these days and my body has been struggling this week (3x1k on the erg at 26, 28, 30 and some leg presses in the gym last night maybe didn’t help). By 4k, I was dragging my left leg… but I made it round in about 36 minutes. My PB days are behind me, but I fucking got it done. 💪

A 45 minute nap after my shower was well earned, I’d say.

#MS #MultipleSclerosis #FuckMS

Parkrun tempo

Run · 9.03 km · 51:06

My first speed session in two weeks. I wasn't going for a particular time, just relaxing into it and trying to dig deep at the end. Official parkrun time of 21:49. #parkrun

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Run titled "Parkrun tempo". 9.03 km, in 43 minutes 53 seconds, pace 4:51 per kilometer, elevation gain 4 meters, average heart rate 161 bpm. Homerton, United Kingdom.

Not volunteering this week but both of us are running #parkrun today at #Waverley Lakes, (border of #Rotherham / #Sheffield).

I was marshalling last week at the turn around halfway point and here's a pic of the set up that I forgot to share.

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Three smaller cones lead to a larger cone where there are two signs. One says "You're half way there!" with an image of Bon Jovi and the other says "Turn around!" with an image of Bonnie Tyler

I did my first #parkrun today 🏃#ballincollig #mastodaoine

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Image displaying running performance metrics: location is Ballincollig, time is 32 minutes and 18 seconds, pace is 6:27 per kilometer, age grade is 43.91%, position is 222, and event number is 443.

Walked our local #parkrun this morning as I didn't want to run the day before the #sheffield10k - it's a completely different atmosphere as a walker, with so many people saying hello and calling out to encourage us ❤️

5km in 49:43 - not bad!

#running #runnersOfMastodon #parkwalk

Nice and easy at #parkrun this morning, ahead of a race tomorrow. Allowed myself to push from easy to steady on the uphill, then coast on the way back down (with a pickup in the last 50m as I could hear someone behind).

In retrospect still too warm for a t-shirt.

#running #RunnersOfMastodon

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A woman in a blue parkrun 500 t-shirt and sunglasses takes a selfie in front of the Ashton Court mansion and parkrun sign. Overlaid are running stats: 4.99km distance, 24:54 time, 289kCal, 5'00"/km average pace.

Feeling rough. Nowhere near enough sleep again = no parkrun for me this morning 😞
Hope everyone else had a good one
#Parkrun

#parkrun
#Bedgebury
#running
A trip to Bedgebury Pinetum for parkrun this morning. A beautiful setting on a day like today. The course was undulating (a bit hilly) but running through the forest more than compensated.
Thanks to all the volunteers - a warm and friendly welcome.
Enjoy your running.

Joe Wicks, of YouTube and early pandemic fame, was at Figges Marsh Junior #parkrun this morning. Much bigger turnout than usual, but all appeared to go smoothly. Wicks was very patient with all the selfies and enthusiastic with the warm-up.

I'm having a slight disagreement with my left knee about whether we should be #running or not, so compromised today with a very pleasant low-effort run/walk at #parkrun.

It's easy to take for granted how you can just turn up and walk and nobody there thinks it's weird and you get the same support as everyone else. What a great thing.

Also Locke Park in #Redcar has a fenced bit where dogs can run around and generally be mental, definitely recommend taking your walk breaks past there to watch them live their best lives 👍

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A lake in the middle of a green, tree-filled park, under a cloudy but still quite blue sky. To the left of the lake a path with a few eager runners on it leads to a green hut with bright yellow pedalos parked on the water out back.

Gave #parkrun a miss today and took part in a relay race! My first one. We had 2 men’s and 4 women’s teams from my Running Club. Sutton Park is quite a challenging course. Ended up running it tempo and not letting the team down too much. I really enjoyed it.

Good luck to everyone on running adventures this weekend. I know there’s a some #RunnersOfMastodon doing Copenhagen Half. Go for it!

#running

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Strava screenshot. Pace was 4:17 per km. Not shown is that my km splits were all pretty much that time… for once!

Not enough sleep and overdressed for the cycle (straight into a headwind) to #parkrun this morning. Felt awful so started nice and easy, running to feel. Felt better by the time I’d reached the plateau and then had a little bit of fun on the way back down, trying to get Filip a good time, and getting involved in a sprint finish. #running #RunnersOfMastodon

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A woman in a floral running vest and 500 parkrun neck tube takes a selfie in front of the Ashton Court parkrun sign. Overlaid are running stats: 4.99km, 23:50, 285kCal, 4’47”/km.

#parkrun no. 280 and volunteer credit 75 today (there’s probably a T shirt for that now 😆). We were at Ross-on-Wye and I’m doing the run report. Really nice wide, mostly flat, trail run. Great volunteers and comedy RD.
We went to a scenic riverside cafe for breakfast with excellent hazelnut pain au chocolat.
And first time out in the #TransInclusive laces.
Parkrun is for everyone. It’s not a race.

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Me and Ceri next to the Ross-on-Wye parkrun sign at the start. Behind us is the Sports Club where participants and volunteers in pink hi viz are gathering.

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Cafe tables set out on a stone verandah next to the Wye riverside path

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View from the riverbank towards Ross-on-Wye. The spire of the church is prominent and the house are painted in various colours. It’s a very pretty town.

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My feet in my trail shoes laced with light blue and pink laces - the trans flag colours

I didn’t realise I had a #parkrun milestone (only 25) until the results came in so missed it at the announcements but yeah me anyway. Nice course by the seaside at East Mersea. #running

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Me running towards a finish funnel under a grey sky with clouds backlit by sun. I’m wearing bright striped leggings and a neon green top.

Up for #Parkrun! And I’ve overslept so it’s all a bit of a rush. Multitasking may save the day…

@sus sounds a bit like #parkrun to me 👍😁

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We're up in #Aberdeen visiting friends, so obviously had to do the new-to-us #parkrun. It's so nice having the half hour later Scottish start, we even had time for breakfast today!

It was forecast to rain quite heavily at one point but came out nice in the end, the route is sort of an out and back (out along this top path, back along the beach promenade) and I imagine could be quite grim in windy weather but it was lovely today. Lots of tourists, but we were all beaten by someone from Australia as per usual.

Got back to our hotel, immediately ran into another parkrunner in the car park. We are legion.

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View from a wide path full of runners and walkers, following the line of a beach. To the left of the path is a strip of grass and then a lower down path full of runners coming back the opposite way, then beyond that the beach and sea. The sky is a lot bluer than expected, and in the distance further down the beach is a large ferris wheel

First outing at #parkrun today for fresh new trail shoes.
Friends tried to stamp on them, as per.

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My feet encased in Hoka Challenger 8 trainers. They have light blue uppers with a darker blue and yellow chunky sole. They’re still relatively clean.

#parkrun
#Hastings
Another beautiful Saturday morning.
I'm going to be so miserable when the weather changes.
Lovely bunch of volunteers - many thanks.

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Seafront in the sunshine with runners warming up for parkrun. Blue sky, calm sea and a shingle beach.