Saturday 23 March 2019 – Hull parkrun number 475

This parkrun was by of being an ‘aperitif’ for a walk, on a weekend based in Beverley, near Hull.

 

Sue, Keith and I got to East Park in good time. There’s a café here, which was open by the time we finished the run. Lots of seating. Slow service.

Anyway, it was a fine morning and Sue and Keith warmed up energetically outside said café.

We found various things to do before starting the run amongst 655 runners and walkers who had assembled for this popular event.

Keith muscled his way to start near the front, whilst Sue and I started well back amongst the masses, costing us a good few seconds. Not to worry, it’s not a race, but it did take me a while to catch up with Keith.

The course is wide and flat, on a firm surface, so once escape has been made from the crush at the start, runners can expect to enjoy fast times.

With only two scanners in operation, some finishers had a long wait in a funnelled queue. Sue is pictured below in that queue, by coincidence next to one of her colleagues at work.

The queues for the two scanners can be seen to the left and the right of the photo below of Sue’s colleague, Chris, and his dad, also Chris, flanked by Sue and Keith, on the sunny morning before we adjourned for coffees.

All three of us were pleased with our times, Sue breaking the 25 minute barrier, a rare event, and Keith and me getting satisfactorily below 23 minutes and just scraping into the top 100!

Full results are here.