Our first run for five weeks, and we hadn’t seen Paul and Jeanette for just as long. Jeanette was sporting her new ‘250’ shirt after reaching that target whilst on a visit to Shetland; Paul’s is quite old. They have completed 566 parkruns between them, and their son Greg has managed a further 379.
It was a lovely morning. I jogged a slow first kilometre to warm up, before speeding up to finish in a respectable time, albeit position 83, just ahead of Jeanette, some way behind whom Sue ran in with Cary. She had intended to walk, but her Achilles problem doesn’t seem to have affected her too much today and she enjoyed a chat with Cary.
It’s a red letter week for the hall, damaged by fire in March 2016. The bell tower has been repositioned in its rightful place.
Here’s what it looked like immediately after the fire.
So there’s hope for the future behind all that scaffolding. I think the work is supposed to be completed in January 2019.
It’s great to see so many bikes at the parkrun these days. The message really does seem to have got home to a good number of people that parking is limited and cycling to the event is the perfect way to digest your breakfast on a Saturday morning.
We were also pleased to see that there’s a new, more convenient for us, run at Orleans in Ottawa, where friends took part in the inaugural run on Saturday. We look forward to joining them on our next visit. 38 people took part, which is encouraging.
3 comments:
You will like the Orleans course!
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Good to see the hall being restored. It has been covered on North West Tonight - we saw the bell tower being lowered on piecemeal by crane.
Yes Conrad, we noticed the hall on the news. Hopefully it will emerge from the scaffolding looking good at some point.
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