FORDY RUNS Wakefield

Hi everyone, Sam here. It's time to show you your mid week runs.

Tuesday social:
We've got an easy out and back this week. You have an option to make this a "naked" run, the idea is that you decide how long it will take you to do a 5 or 7.5k, and then run to feel. It's supposed to be a bit of fun, and lots of the Fordy satellites are doing it.

For instance, I might want to do 5k in 40mins, I'd not wear my watch and see if I could get as close to that 40 mins as possible.

Or you can just do the run as normal 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anyway, what ever you do, despite the name of the session please wear clothes haha.

Wednesday Improvers:
Weather dependant, if it's okay it'll be Peel Ave reps. If it's a super hot one it'll be Kris' surprise 🙈

Tuesday routes and booking link in the comments.

Long Run Sunday time! Holly here, flying solo this week due to holidays, childcare… or apparently some weird race where cake is on offer!?

For those of you not affected by one of those blockers, I’ve got a 10K route for you this week. It’s the reverse of one we did a few weeks ago… someone suggested we should do it the other way round, so on their head be it 😅

📍 Thornes Park – Holmfield Arms entrance (lower car park)
🕤 9:30am
💷 Free to join – please book on via the app (booking link in comments)

As I’m the only run leader this week, there's no 10 mile option sorry.

Full route can be found in the WhatsApp community.

Good luck to everyone racing this weekend!

See you Sunday!

Wednesday improvers

Tonight was arena reps with a hill sprint

They where as bad as they sound but also really good fun!

Well done on the efforts tonight

We are back on Sunday for a 10k option only as a few of us are at the grim up north Cakeathon

Wakefield met for a really steady social 30 minute run in the park tonight.
We welcomed Cat and Evie from West Yorkshire Police who told us about Wakefields new Jog On campaign which is aimed at stopping the harassment of runners. We know they enjoyed meeting you all and we hope they'll be back again.

We're back tomorrow for our improvers session, we'll be keeping an eye on the weather so it might be a surprise session.

Hello folks 👋🏻
Hope you’re enjoying the sunny bank holiday weather☀️and not melting 🫠
For this Tuesday’s social run, we’re going back to one of our favourite runs - make it up as you go along 😂
Just buddy up and create your own route within the boundaries of the park and get back to the start by 7.15

We’ll also be joined this week by members of West Yorkshire Police to talk about the Jog On campaign. It’s a fantastic campaign to help make running safer. If you’ve not had the chance to take the survey yet, there’s a QR code in this post.

📍Meeting Point: Thornes Park, Holmfield Arms Entrance, Lower Car Park
🕤Time: 6:30pm
💷Cost: Free to join – please book on via the app or link in the comments.

It was a warm one this morning. Well done everyone, really proud of how we all slowed down and took it steady as we get ourselves used to the heat again.

Massive congratulations to Andrew Woodward who ran his first 10k since his many many injuries, of course we celebrated with ice pops 🥳.

A couple of reminders, lots of us are at Cakeathon next Sunday so there will just be a 10k option. And then from Sunday 5th June we will be starting our Sundays at the earlier time of 8.30 to try and beat some of the heat.

It’s set to be a scorching bank holiday weekend ☀️ so why not come along on Sunday and get your dose of vitamin D whilst running with your mates?

We’ve got 10k and 10mile-ish routes plotted. There’s a bit of undulation to start but then a nice flat, shady trail run back to the park.

As usual the routes are in the comments and in the WhatsApp group, please familiarise yourself with them before we set off 🙏🏻

As it’s going to be warm, please hydrate before, during and after your run. Don’t rely on the ice pop man being there 😂

📍Meeting Point: Thornes Park, Holmfield Arms Entrance, Lower Car Park
🕤Time: 9:30am
💷Cost: Free to join – please book on via the app or link in the comments.

Ps - don’t forget it’s Wakefield Thornes parkrun’s 500th run on Saturday, so get along if you can to celebrate 🥳

Wednesdays improvers

Another hilly one, with pyramid hills in Thornes park followed by some good stretching

We also welcomed Becky to her first fordy session having seen us all on Sunday at Pontefract.

We are back on Sunday for our 10k and 10mile social runs

We managed to avoid the rain but still went splish splashing around some lovely 5k and 7.5k traily routes 💦🦆

We’re back tomorrow for our improvers session which will be a bit more up and down than tonight. Same time, same place - book on for some horrible hills 🗻🧗‍♂️