Congrats Terry on your weekend of special events! This from Terry in the newsletter :o) My Weekend By The Numbers by Terry Baker (a parkrun tourist) Last weekend my life was ruled by the following numbers: 31 – My 31st wedding anniversary. 25 – My 25th parkrun. 4 – The number of parkrun courses I have run at. 3 – The number of days away from work and home. 1 – The 1st birthday of five30runners, my running group. On Friday the 13th September my wife and I traveled 3 hours north of Sydney to Nelson Bay on the New South Wales mid north coast. We used Nelson Bay as our base for the weekend as there is accommodation for all budgets and your choice of food is covered by everything from fish & chips to caught fresh that day seafood. Not one chain store fast food outlet around. Saturday morning we took the 10 minute drive to Fingal Bay for my 25th parkrun. Arriving at what I thought was too early a time I was pleasantly surprised as the flags were up, finish funnel markers in place, turn around cones were out and the table for the finish tokens was set up. These people were keen. As the start time drew close cars arrived and runners appeared from all directions. Instructions and information was given then some warm up stretches and away we went. Fingal Bay parkrun starts by heading east from the start for approx 500 meters and then you turn around and head west back past the start/finish line. You then continue west for 1.5 k’s through native bushland. The trees forming a cooling canopy from the morning sun. The course is mostly flat with two small rises. From the second turn around you once more head east and pass the finish line again, so close but still so far. At the final turn around it is time to empty the fuel tank and go for broke in bringing it home, finally. Then all the runners are done, pack up begins and just like the morning mist by the time the sun tops the treeline parkrun has faded into the background leaving a pleasant memory behind. If you are traveling in this area of NSW or plan to make it a running destination drop in on the very nice folk at Fingal Bay and receive a warm welcome from the parkrun community here.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:30:12 +0000
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