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A gentle warm up before the weekend's Cotswold 24 at Cirencester Park seemed appropriate. That the parkrun was only 20 minutes' walk away made it a no-brainer†.
Wendy, Ian, Simon and I wandered over there to find a really well-organised parkrun - there was even a marshals' briefing, which Andover parkrun Race Directors Ian and Simon thought a little over the top. In defence of the Cirencester team, this was only their 26th parkrun, so it's early days yet.
The first timers' briefing was a total scrum: amongst 264 finishes there were 144 "First Timer!"s at Cirencester, of whom only 9 were new to parkrun. Mind you, 264 missed Cirencester's record by 30 finishes.
The course is pleasant enough: absolutely pancake-flat run over 3 laps in the grounds of the Royal Agricultural University. Wendy and I were lapped before we'd completed our first one, which was gratifying: I wasn't going to be wearing myself out for later. Thrice round, encouraging a lady runner towards the end and chatting a bit about a training strategy for her, and then pausing 5 yards from the end, to the mystification of the finish funnel marshals, to quiz a chap about his Auckland Marathon T shirt. "Don't you want to finish?" (the marshals) "oh yes," trot, trot, trot.....
"255," I said, "that's all ones in binary!" "Oh yes," said the marshal.
It was getting ominously warm.
† it might be considered a no-brainer of a different sort
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