Wythenshawe Park was the venue for my 250th parkrun, but more importantly it was an occasion on which to celebrate Paul Muldoon's imminent marriage to Kirsty - a saga more like a hurdle race than a parkrun, if truth be known. Paul was largely responsible for setting up the Wythenshawe parkrun ten years ago.
The 'management' took the above snap for their
Facebook page at some point - thanks for that. The next six of my snapshots were taken as we milled around, socially distanced as best we could, in the large field next to the sart of the 'Dino' course - three laps around the football pitches.
Ruby takes centre stage
Then we ran around the 5 km course, finishing with a sprint across the field. Andy Wright is usually ahead of me, but today he got lost on the way to the start!
The wedding party arrived soon after I'd finished in 26:04 - a good time for me on the slowish course, and happily first home in my age group (out of 2).
The groom receives his token - "OK, I can go and get married now, via the dry cleaner!"
There were more 'family' pictures, once everyone had got their breath back (or not).
Then a large group of 'regulars' adjourned to the Courtyard Cafe for a rehydration chat, before the 'management' arrived and plonked 231 finish tokens on our table for us to willingly sort into numerical order in preparation for next week's run. Unbelievably, there were no missing tokens - is this the first time in living memory that they have all been handed back after scanning?
Full results (Sue finished just behind me in 26:57) are
here.
2 comments:
Good for Ruby. I reckon in that second photo he/she is just rolling about with laughter at the absurdity of human activity.
Ruby was laughing, she has come a long way since starting life as a east European street dog. In contrast with the crammed stadiums of mask free spectators, there are still masks, and lots of hand sanitiser, in evidence at the parkruns.
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