What did I learn from my first XC?

What do you think of when you hear the words cross country? Ill-fitting PE kit? Being forced out in the winter? That’s what I thought too. So when the local XC series (Derby Runner Cross Country League) started it’s fair to say I was intrigued and was keen to give it a go. The first…

What parkrun means to me

I was recently speaking to someone about parkrun and it wasn’t until I spoke out loud that I realised what parkrun has meant to me over the years. I first heard about parkrun back in 2015. The same day I went to get my gait analysis done for my first pair of running shoes (I…