My 150th parkrun

I couldn't resist the opportunity to bag my 150th parkrun at the sixth anniversary of the Glasgow (now Pollok) parkrun.  I missed the first Glasgow parkrun but I took part in the second one, on 13 December 2008. There's been a big change in the parkrun since those days, when only 24 of us ran the free 5k event, to today where there are numerous events over Scotland, including four in Glasgow itself, all attracting much more than 24, In fact the Pollok parkrun now regularly attracts 300 more runners per week than when it first started.

Not many of the 23 others that joined me in December 2008 are still regular attendees at the south of Glasgow event, in fact only one other ran the event on the 6th of December and that was  Dan Maher, who has now completed a massive 240 parkruns, hence his nickname "Dan, Dan the parkrun man"!

Happy Birthday!

Richard Leyton who set up the parkrun in Scotland is standing down and the running community in Scotland owe him a real debt of gratitude for his endeavours over the years in spreading the phenomenon north of the border.

I tend to tour the local parkruns these days and have completed 112 of my runs at Pollok but others
chose to run the same course most weeks and the annual Pollok parkrun awards were presented on Saturday to those that had amassed most points during the previous 52 weeks.  Congratulations to Al MacLachlan, who retained the male points competition prize and to Pamela Joss, who won the female points award.

Many thanks, as always, to all the volunteers and fellow runners for making another Saturday morning so special.