Ive always enjoyed my Saturday morning sleep-ins, truth be told. Until a former work colleague, who I now consider to be a good friend, came and steamrolled over that comfortable habit.
Would you like to join me for a parkun tomorrow?, he casually enquired one Friday afternoon. Because clearly I looked like a sucker for punishment.
Will there be beer at the finish line? was my equally casual response.
Having given up smoking a few years prior and feeling keen to develop my fitness I took on the challenge and have never looked back.
I completed my first event, the Athol Oaklands parkrun, in 2018, finishing in about 33 minutes after considerable huffing and puffing, but in less than a year I had managed to shave almost 10 minutes off my Personal Best (PB) time.
