Tail'walking' #loveparkrun

We're in Scotland on holiday, staying in Aberdour for the festival and Donkey Brae run. On Saturday we were parkrun tourists and visited the Beveridge Park (named after John's family*) in Kirkcaldy. The course is two laps of the track running around the park and, as I've brought Mac McLaren with me, I (somewhat naively) thought I'd give it a go....

The Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy 

*Beveridge is a common family name in Fife 

So, at 9.30am** I managed to self-propel for maybe a couple of hundred metres before accepting more than a little bit of welcome help from one of the tailwalkers. We then turned the corner and started the ascent up Mount Beveridge. In theory the descent should have been easy, except that Mac (being a tail-dragger) has a habit of spinning out of control around corners or when attempting to brake. In the end I left steering to my assistant and concentrated on putting power in. John and Ali joined us as we completed the final lap. Fortunately, none of us had barcodes so the near hour it took is lost forever to historical record.

With tailwalker Sandie from Dunfermline 

**parkrun in Scotland starts at 9.30am in order to give everyone chance to recover from the indulgences of the night before.


Haha, next time it'll be a flat course, I'll take an assistant to steer, I'll wear gloves to avoid nasty blisters and just maybe I should one day invest in a real racing chair. Don't get me wrong, I've no desire to go fast, just get round parkrun without having to apologise to the tailwalker. But once completed, another run calls and before I know it I'll be a chair-parkrunner ever searching for my next PB..... #loveparkrun