I have had my eye on the Doncaster parkrun MV40 record for sometime, been close to it a couple of times.

The night before we enjoyed attending the lovely wedding reception of Chris Ward and Gemma Louise Tayler so I was fuelled up on lovely buffet food and Speckled Hen.

After a fairly late night I got up early and took the keys and timing equipment to parkrun, I then did a easy lap to warm up and see if the course was wet and muddy.  It was 90% ok so decided to use road shoes.  Did not feel great on the warm up, spotted some of my training buddies on the start line so knew I would have people to work with.  Set off with CM and PB, after a couple of minutes passed JW and took the lead.

JW pushed me all the way, gaining on the muddy bits (he had off road shoes).  On the last lap I kicked hard and about 200m from the finish, I realised I was close to a PB and the VM40 record so I sprinted with 100% effort and my official time was 17:32.  I was also delighted for JW who ran a massive PB of nearly 40 seconds.  Almost 240 runners did Doncaster parkrun this week, a free weekly event organised entirely by volunteers and the results go on Power of 10.