Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ Runuary day twenty-eight
Up even earlier for parkrun today, on a quest to find some of the youtube influencer soft drink called Prime. The boy had heard that we can get it in Asda if we go there early and ask at the counter. They had a sign up saying "all sold out" but we asked anyway and a very kind lady went to check out in the back in case they had had a delivery. They had not. Still going very early to parkrun meant I got a great parking spot on the high street. After the Asda disappointment I walked T1 back to the bus station and pointed him at the right bus to get home. Nearly an issue when he had no signal and his online bus pass would not load for the day, but he hotspotted off my phone and made the waiting bus. Then I got a coffee and walked to a great parkrun!
Folkestone parkrun results for event #369. Your time was 00:23:30.
Congratulations on completing your 110th parkrun and your 99th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 57th place and were the 50th Male out of a field of 311 parkrunners and you came 10th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Congratulations on your fastest time this year.
Several points of interest today1 that have contributed to or otherwise affected this good time:
- Hella cold today, so I did not take my hoodie off. Basically running with my coat on.
- Small americano with an extra shot from Costa before the run.
- Other people just seemed slower, I started in what I thought was a good spot for me but did a lot of overtaking.
- We're back on the regular route now, the lower path has been repaired.
That's still not a fast time at 23'30, not even a fast time for me, see my best time is two and a half minutes faster, but it's a fast time for recently.
Only three more runs, three more days after today of runuary and dryanuary. Then on to Febrewery!
Speaking of coffee:
| date | ⚙️2 | ⏱ 3 | ⚖️4 | ☕️5 | ⏱6 | notes |
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2023-01-25|15|8.5|18|66|32|Still no idea what affects the expres time. 2023-01-24|15|9|17|58|27|Mixed it up again, not trusting the "smaller ground" theory, going back the other way. 2023-01-22|6|10|17|67|27|Out yesterday, did I measure my pre-parkrun coffee? Doesn't look like it.
Who knows what is going on with my adjustments.
I have a free afternoon today, Clare and the boys both out. I have repaired the side gate, it had banged itself loose, but will not be achieving much else. We're going for a curry at 5.30, it is T2's choice, as he says he always gets overruled. Back to Green Spice in Sandgate.
Going back in time now, in more ways that one. As part of dryanuary I had offered to drive some friends out to a rural pub this month. Last night was the night (yesterday, see time travel number one), and we went to the Red Lion in Snargate. It is a step back in time going into that pub, not sure to what time, but it is amazing with almost no compromises to modernity. Even the prices feel like from another era, not much more than three quid a pint. How do they do it? And it's not busy. It's a really great place. Time travel reference number three one of the beers was called "Hop back to the future". I did not have beer, I had only ginger beer. After we had a curry at Romney Spice, which is the same curry house we went to last time we went to the Red Lion. Very good and seemed pretty cheap too, came to £67 for the four of us, and that includes at least three beers. I had vegetable pathia and garlic mushrooms and coconut rice.
My friends I was with were quite keen on the idea of Febrewery though and will join me for at least part of my adventure. Not sure I will start on the 1st of February but I will fit in twenty-eight pubs across the twenty eight days and log them here. Here is the final list of the only time I actually did it in 2020.
- Oh yes I used the word "interest" advisedly.
- grind size
- grind time (seconds)
- ground coffee (grammes)
- espresso expressed (grammes)
- express time (seconds)
dryanuary: Not drinking for all of January.
runuary: Running at least 5k every day for the month of January.