Storm Brian brought terrible weather with torrential rain and gale strength winds across Wales and some parkruns were cancelled as a result. I was soaking and freezing to my core even before the event started! But 9am came around Brian calmed down \u2013 almost like he knew it was parkrun time. I make Brian out to be a drunk fifty year old man, he\u2019s not of course he\u2019s a storm! So to all the Brian\u2019s out there \u2013 who I\u2019m sure are all lovely \u2013 I\u2019m sorry that the Met Office names these storms!<\/p>\n
So this Saturday, in my infinite wisdom, I chose one of the worst days of the year to run my first parkrun in over a month. Having said that, I still enjoyed it as no storm Brian can dampen the spirit at parkrun, and am quite content with my time of 29:44 as well! \u00a0Plus, I was first in my age category (even if I was the only one it still counts right?)!<\/p>\n
But to finish it all off, Brian did make a final appearance in the closing minutes of parkrun to make sure that he wasn\u2019t finished with us yet. Packing up was a challenge to say the least!<\/p>\n
Finally, I would like to unreservedly apologise to Brian for any foul language directed towards him, by myself, parkrunners or otherwise as he did pose us a challenging run!<\/p>\n
Saturday stared off waking up at the unholy hour of 7 o\u2019clock. Why? parkrun of course! Due to Storm Brian (I still laugh at that name) a course inspection was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n