Saturday 1 March 2025 - Severn Bridge parkrun

As we were staying nearby, it would have been inappropriate not to take part in a local parkrun. This one promised to be a bit different. We assembled in a huge underpass tunnel for the 250th running of this event.
 

The briefing turned out to be inaudible. Not to worry, we know the score. Except that in this case it wasn't clear where we started. Anyway we made our way up a long ramp, at the top of which I set my watch - nearly a minute behind the people who went through the start first. Never mind.

The mist slowly cleared as we ran over the bridge to a turnaround point.

On the return leg I met Carol and Melinda, who were walking, so as to conserve energy for the walk that followed.

After the run, Sue B kept warm by jogging out to join Carol and Melinda. They are pictured below descending the ramp up which we queued at the start. We made for quite a large welcoming party.

The finish is in the tunnel, where Keith has just cheered through the two walkers.

Someone kindly took this group photo before we all adjourned for breakfast in the Chatterbox Cafe.

The 5km route is shown below, the green blob being my interpretation of the start, and the red blob is the finish. (Click on the image for a better version - as always). The full results are here.

Here are our team's results. There's not much data for Melinda as she didn't have a bar code with her.