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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-28 at 13:37

Yesterday was my 1st #parkrun-iversary 🥳.

One year after my first parkrun:

41 running, 2 volunteering, 3 locations.

Did not expect 1 year ago that I would be going almost every week.

Here's to another year of #parkrun , and to # 50 in another 9 weeks.

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-25 at 16:27

Can it count as tourism when it's just across town? I guess yes (I got a shout-out as a tourist at the briefing, with a little laugh when they said where I'd touristed from).

3/2

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-25 at 16:26

Long flat straights (1km, 1.1km) are a bit confusing (it's impossible to tell how far is left by eye or feel). Nice to have a wider start with less chaos at the start (and fewer people didn't hurt).

Met a couple of familiar faces I know from the other one, and met a few new faces (👋 @cpamoa , @yodbha ).

2/2

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-25 at 16:22

More #parkrun "tourism" today.

My first time at the "other" parkrun in Munich -- Riemer -- on the site of the former airport.

Flat as a pancake (yay), with mixed surfaces. A little sandy in short parts (boo), dirt and tarmac elsewhere (yay).

Not so many folks, a bit harder to find a pace.

Watch time was PB +1s, official time PB+2s.

Considering I wasn't planning to push quite for a PB today, not bad.

I'll be back periodically, especially if I want to try a PB attempt.

1/2

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-18 at 16:02

[#]parkrun tourism this morning.

My second time at Unisee in Bremen.

This time was colder (boo), which meant the mud was almost frozen (yay), but they had an alternative course due to some building works at the lake.

This meant 2 laps of out and back (half way round the lake) with extra 180s (boo), and a slightly long course (5.2?) which means that my fast pace doesn't seem as fast as it really was.

Could have done without the snow on the last km, but otherwise nice.

[#]runnersofmastodon

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-02 at 12:24

@julienhillairet new instance?

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-02 at 10:16

Changed from my travelling clothes into my running kit (t-shirt and wind jacket) just before the briefing.

Realised that wasn't going to cut it, so legged it up the hill to do a jacket -> hoodie swap just in time. Left my gloves at home because I idiot.

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-02 at 10:14

New Year's #parkrun yesterday -- freezing cold. One might even say "saukalt".

Lots of festive greetings on arrival. Had my photo taken with my running swag of the year (nice idea -- get people to bring all their running medals from over the year at the end of the year).

Not feeling 100% and lacking rest (due to NYE fireworks stretching into the middle of the night :| ), I took it easy, jogging around not slowly, but >3 mins above-PB together with a running friend.

[#]runnersofmastodon

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-12-31 at 20:47

Thanks to @RHD , here are the #parkrun statistics from the 5K app.

My 5km PB started the year at just below 25 minutes, finished at 21:45.

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-12-31 at 20:36

After today's NYE 10k, my 2024 end of the year summary -- my first full year of running.

First #parkrun (ran a total of 36), first 2 10k races, first marathon.

Total balance, 1204.7km, not so evenly distributed.

[#]runnersofmastodon

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-12-17 at 15:45

Signed up for a 10km race on NYE.

Since it passes practically past our front door, I rather felt like I should, even if I'm not completely sure I wanna do a long run flat-out in 2 weeks.

Oh well, at least I'll have a special NYD #parkrun the next day.

[#]runnersofmastodon

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-11-30 at 11:13

[#]parkrun volunteering this morning. First time marshalling. Bloomin' freezing, but good spirits on the course.

Surprise of the day: not only chatting with my Firenze-Marathon-buddies, but also spotting someone I didn't know running in the t-shirt from the event "nice t-shirt, I've got one of those" was the best I could muster.

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-11-24 at 13:27

Done.

Exceeded expectations :)

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-11-24 at 05:46

Early start this morning -- my first marathon starting in under 2 hours.

🤞😱😱😱😅.

[#]runnersofmastodon

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-09-28 at 18:35

Wasn't quite sick when I crossed the finish line, but there was a brief doubt before I walked it off.

[#]toomuchinfo #runnerswillknowthefeeling

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-09-28 at 18:31

Nice cool weather at #parkrun this morning. Maybe a touch cold (I'd wager not much colder than last week, which felt perfect, but damper air today), damp but no rain (and not too many puddles).

New PB by 4 seconds ⏱️🏃 :)

Fewer people in Lederhosen and Dirndls than last week, but a good crowd nonetheless!

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2024-08-30 at 12:06

Writing slides for a conference talk.

Trying to decide how best to informally cite papers where I'm 2nd author?

[Author1, Me, et al.]

How about where I'm 4th author:

Would anyone argue with the same:

[Author1, Me, et al.] ?

Should I add an ellipsis to avoid claiming to be 2nd author?

[Author1, …, Me, et al.] ?

[#]academicChatter

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