Rose Park

It was the inaugural parkrun at Rose Park in Lenasia on Saturday, so I went and did that one.Lenasia is a huge, mostly Indian area south-west of Joburg city, and it's their first Parkrun, so I was surprised that there weren't that many poeple there. I'm sure it'll grow though. It starts in a pretty little park (with roses), and heads out across some not-so-pretty rough open land, and it's a double-lapper. It's nice and flat, and I managed it in 27:38, my second-fastest ever parkrun. That said, it's about 200m short; oops. Afterwards I was offered coffee by the Florida running group, and it was nice to chat with them. I see them reguarlary at races and new parkruns. One guy, in his 50s, generally does his parkruns in about 24 minutes. He was commenting that he prefers runs with hills because it's a bit easier to pick up speed. He mentioned that he's walked 8 or 10 times on the run - and there's me, running the whole way and still several minutes behind!

There was another inaugural at Kralinbergh, a few hours east, and I think a number of the tourists went to that one, staying overnight or driving 4 hours. Saldy for them, it was cancelled at the last minute due to lightning. :(

Yesterday I did 10K around the neighbourhood and along the river. Nice run.