Run Report - Merthyr Parkrun Trial

Before I start, note the cahne from 'race' report to run report. This seems better for parkrun!

The day finally came, the trial run of Merthyr parkrun (fitting with correct branding) took place on a warm and sunny morning on the Taff Trail near the Leisure Center. The trail was dry and semi deserted, the runners were here... great stuff.

Look how official I look! (Right)

The course is a tricky little one, the term is undulating, but as this is Merthyr you'd have to do laps of a car park to get a flat one. Nobody wants to do laps of a car park... I assume.

It's all tarmac apart from a wooden bridge, so easily accessible. Yeah it's a challenging one but a good one. The trail is quite nice to look at, it has a big bridge, a sculpture, a call centre... In the right conditions it'll even have a waterfall!

Was the trial without issues? Of course not, otherwise there'd be no point in doing it! The course was a little short, which I verified by running it myself afterward, but this is sorted! I was sad it was short as I clocked it under 20 mins, I've never been under 21 1/2!




It was 2.79, that's very harsh Strava!

The core team are a good bunch this has potential!

Tonight I will re run the course to get an extra verification of the length and then it's a few weeks until:

Merthyr Parkrun #1

 



I'm not putting the date up, or the website etc as I don't think I'm supposed too yet.