Not worth starting a 'running good news bad news thread'. Here seem appropriate.
Good news: I did my not as usual as I'd like Sunday 10k yesterday.
Bad news: My time was over an hour
GN: but only by 30 seconds
Even better news: my heart rate was under 140 for the whole run
GN: parkrun is coming back next month
BN: but not ours
Anyone who has read my posts in this thread will have seen references to the Park (with the capital). It's the parkland surrounding our local NT property, open to the public for free pretty well all the time. Our parkrun has been here for the past seven years. However, it is a grade I listed landscape which is not being improved by having 400 pairs of feet trampling it every Saturday and the logistics of getting said 400 people into and out of a village with a population of about 800, and finding them places to park their cars, was getting too much. I completely understand the NT's reasons for not wanting to restart...
...but the announcement left me feeling really down on Friday. As noted above, I run in the Park two or three times a week and one of the things which has been motivating me has been that's it's a practice for when parkrun returns. How much of a difference will starting the 5k in a different place make? How much of a boost will running with other people give me? That sort of thing. And now it's not going to happen.
OK it's not really that serious. It's only a (mostly) fun run. But Friday was hard. And I need to find some motivation for tomorrow morning.