This time of year Archie and I usually do a parkrun in order for him to get limbered up for his defence of the Tinto Tiptoe. However, he’s on cub camp this year on the Tinto weekend, but we still took advantage of staying with Old Mother Lynch to run the Kirkcaldy version. If anyone has run any of the Fife AC Beveridge Park Series, well they’ll know the course, sort of. There is an additional loop around the duck pond on the parkrun, which is different from the Fife AC version.
The aim was to get Archie under 23 minutes, but without my Garmin (which I’d left at the FRA Relays), pacing was a bit off-the-cuff, but we managed it, through some gentle cajoling and a carrot of £20 (the boy is a born capitalist). His time of 22.53 placed him 30th overall and 1st JM10. A really nice course with a couple of gentle climbs and a fast finish.
Results here: http://www.parkrun.org. uk/kirkcaldy/results/ latestresults/
Mike Lynch