Neil's – parkrun journey from a land down under! | Chelmsford Central parkrun
The latter was of some concern when the run director wished me luck with getting back to the UK! It turned out that luck did play its part as we got the second last flight out of Perth to the UK and arrived back on lockdown day, the 23rd March! I first heard about parkrun from our son Graeme in Australia in 2012 and thought it was an Australian ‘invention’. ’50 runs and you get a tee shirt Dad’. I laughed! I was still playing cycling, but was no runner. A little bit of jogging had been done over recent years, on a 1.75 mile route, but I had no illusions about my jogging ‘prowess...