2022 plans

 For 2022 my plan is to have another parkrun year.  Here are the aims:

Milage

This year aiming for 500 miles for the first time in a long time.  This works out at 41 miles per month or just over 10 miles per week.

Not parkruns

I will still keep recording these when I do 5ks outside actual parkruns but no aims.

parkrun events

This is a tricky one as I have 15 events left to do in Scotland but it has been ages since a new event in Scotland started. So I think it could be a year where a lot start and I have certainly heard of quite a few in the works.  I think a more realistic target would be to reach 60 different Scottish events and anything above that is a bonus.

No of parkruns

In total I finished last year on 245 parkruns so all being well I should hit 250 in early February.

Time

Usual target of trying to get under 30 minutes as much as possible. Particulary at Queen's where I haven't done it yet. 

2021 Summary

 I realised I have not posted in a few months and all of a sudden its the 29th December. So time to look back on the year.

Not parkruns

Not parkruns are still a thing and even though parkrun came back in July I have still been doing them throughout the year. Not to the same degree though as 2020 where I did 100 not parkruns in 6 months.   One of the reasons for this is that a lot of those 100 were walks and I when I have been going for walks I haven't been doing 3 miles.  Also when going out for runs with the Wednesday gang, if it wasn't bang on 3.1 miles I would just not bother recording as a not parkrun. Nevertheless I still did 81 thoughout the year meaning I am now on 181 not parkruns total.

Total Miles

This year I managed 468 miles which is the most I have managed in a year since 2016 where I did 472 miles. So the second highest total milage since I joined Strava.

parkruns

This year I managed 18 live events, broken down as follows

8 x Queen's (inc 2 tailwalks, fastest 30.48, slowest 31.58)

1x Pollok

1 x Tollcross

Then the new events, 2 in England 

Preston

Pontefract

6 new ones in Scotland taking my total Scottish events tally upto 44 Scottish events done and 54 overall

University of Stirling

Montrose

Faskally Forest

Polkemment

Levengrove

Perth

Out of the 6 new ones I did 4 were under 30, Levengrove was just over 30 by seconds. Then Faskally was a chatty 33 minutes.

Average parkrun time

I decided to just do the parkrun live events for average parkrun time this year.  So pleased that this is my 2nd fastest average year on record, especially with all those runs at Queen's.

2017 - 31.04 (35 runs)

2018 - 31.52 (46 runs)

2019 - 30.33 (44 runs)

2020 - 31.40 (64 runs)

2021 - 30.59 (16 runs)

Gernerally speaking

In general, I have been pretty happy with my running this year.  I have been a lot more consistent at getting out 3 times a week. One of the reasons for that is running with the Wednesday night gang and also had my brother to run with on Monday nights for part of the year.  Also delighted parkrun is back and fingers crossed next year that it stay's back. 

Plans for next year in the next post.