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Parkrun Tourism: Fulham Palace

Fulham Palace parkrun

During my park run exploration I’ve run a few different courses, and love the concept – but I haven’t made it along to one of the free Saturday 5ks for a while.

 

Fulham Palace parkrun
So when Charlie offered the incentive of a free Puma t-shirt as well as the chance to catch up with friends, I jumped at the opportunity of adding a new park run to my tally.
It was a gorgeous morning – sunny and warm and I almost wished I’d worn shorts!
Fulham Palace parkrun
I met Charlie, Becs, Cara and several other of Charlie’s running friends at the start line of Fulham Palace parkrun – it was an easy 10minute walk from Putney Bridge tube station, and there were the usual marshalls in yellow jackets as well as a tarpaulin on the ground for people to leave their bags.
Charlie gave us all pink Puma Run Faster t-shirts as part of her #igniteLondon campaign to get people running – these were a great fit, cool and sweat wicking and comfortable to run in. I loved the slogan too even if I wasn’t running very fast!
Fulham Palace parkrun
Photo courtesy of Charlie
I ran without music and chatted to one of Charlie’s friends, who stuck with me even though I was a lot slower than her. She helped keep me going and pace me to a sub 34min 5k (11min/mile) which is good for me considering the lack of training I’ve been doing recently! My PB is 31:31 (10min/mile) from the Greenwich Xmas 5k which quite honestly I have no idea how I achieved!
Fulham Palace parkrun
The course of Fulham Palace parkrun is almost 3 laps, around the park and along the Thames Path next to the river. I love running in this part of London and have done several long runs around here. It was very relaxing running next to the water on a gorgeous Saturday morning, watching the sailing boats.
Fulham Palace parkrun
And of course, we followed up with coffee and cake at the nearby Fulham Palace Walled Garden cafe – I opted for a Little Miracles green tea and banana, pecan and honey cake as it sounded the most “breakfast-like” and slightly more acceptable than the gooey chocolate brownies at 10 in the morning…


Did you parkrun this weekend? 

Beki x 

 

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