I'm sure they never guessed they'd get to letter Z when lockdown started and here we are going into Lockdown 2!

Stuart and Carole Page completed their personal virtual alphabet challenge with a run up to the Zoo. Other notable efforts include Dan's Hareem visiting Hang Lane (the olden days were harsh times), Claire Hallessey treated herself to pumpkin pancakes (which are new to me and sound very yummy) with the bonus that the pic she submitted with three pancakes in a pan looked like a radioactive warning sign! Dave Cary terrified Marsworth as part of his 10k route, Lucy Clutton ran her first ever Half Marathon (in very poor conditions) and Giles Monks also clocked up the 20k+ of a Half Marathon. Like the week before we had a several virtual parkrunners go on to add a lot more kms than the required five. Pencil was going for a scary, vampire, Count Drac' look - but failed miserably! There was no doubt that Blaz would pitch in with a good effort and Andy Evans too dug deep in the Snapchat filter locker.

We had a surprisingly good costume effort, although it has to be said no one was seen running along Tring High Street or through Tring Park dressed in something outrageous. One of our most popular special events is Halloween and so there was no doubt about the theme as October came to an end. Lynda was the first female in the 55+ category, 2nd if you take into account those over 45 and 14th female overall. Congratulations to Louise and Stave Bladen, Carole and Stuart Page, Helen Tullie and to Lynda Hembury. Top marks for powers of observation go to Louise Brooks who spotted an appropriately named Beach Hut on her virtual tourist parkrun at Lowestoft and to Lucy Brittain (and Dan's Hareem) for cleverly homing-in on Dark Lane (as it will be getting dark an hour earlier now) and to Martin Bishop who spotted 'Sundial Cottage' on his virtual run around local villages.Īnd a very special mention for several of our regular parkrunners who stepped up their Saturday morning virtual 5k a few levels, by running more than eight times that distance on the challenging Beachy Head Marathon. Lee Robinson had his eye on his Garmin, and was pleased to finish his virtual 5k in less than 30 minutes after a wee injury. Gio and Pencil both got in on the act again with Gio checking out the marshal point at the old 'Gate 2' and Pencil was keeping a keen eye a Felix looking cat clock.

It was a great excuse to invent routes that passed church and school clocks in and around Tring, Northchurch and Pitstone, and the Leybournes were out clock spotting in Cornwall. To brighten things up and act as a bit of an incentive our 32nd virtual parkrun had the theme of time or, more specifically, 'Clocks, Watches, Egg Timers and Sundials'. It's colder, darker, wetter, there is no end to all this miserable Covid situation and, to make matters worse, we had to put our clocks back and endure an extra hour of 2020. It's getting a bit more challenging to get out for a run these days. We have a bumper double week issue, we explore time and halloween, we have spooky (and real!) local tales of witchcraft and murder, we have a spooktacular look-back, we have (not) parkrun, AND a few words about our sixth birthday and how you can help. There is only one correct answer, 'treat', of course.

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