As always seems to be the case at parkruns everywhere, there didn't seem to be many people around initially. Today there was good reason though, as only one of the 2 pay and display ticket machines in the car park was working . . but as 9am approached so the area around the Tree of Information, and the start and finish, began to fill up with enthusiastic runners ready to go . .

The hold up in the car park led to a delay in starting, to give everyone a chance to get to the start, so some runners took the opportunity to warm up a second time . .

Soon it was time for the pre-parkrun briefing . . and for the last few marshals to take up their positions . .

And then the whistle blew, and the runners were running towards me . .