London Fields Junior parkrun

An amazing Sunday morning in Hackney, I arrived midpoint during my Sunday long run to meet Steve and his daughters who set about organising the event. The London Fields park rangers are such great supporters and helped us get access to the kit so that we could make sure everything was in place for the runners. London Fields is one of the many gems of outdoor London. The Lido always seems to be popular whatever the weather and it was so good to see so many park users whether it is all the junior Sunday league football teams, runners, cylclists and scooterers, or those out for a morning constitutional. When the weather was as lovely as it was this morning anything seems possible and so it was for our enthusiastic horde of runners. Steve led the warm up and I felt the responsibility of being the time keeper. 3,2,1, and they were off. It is a timeless joy to see so many children charge across a field full of energy and excitement. The two girls who led from the start and romped home in first and second place were such great adverts for 'This girl Can'; but of course the real heroes are everyone who turned up and took part (and the adults, who go them ready and coached them round) Time keeping kept and all runners through we cleared up and put the kit away ready for the next week. Now for me it was just the small matter of the second 8 1/2 mile run back! All good preparation for the Big Half as a Good Gym runner!