St Albans parkrun - event 704
On the 7th November 2026 I ran St Albans parkrun, which was the 704th event held at the venue, my 310th parkrun and 221st different course I'd attended. In all of the times I've written these posts, there's not been often where I've had not much to say. I had quite high expectations of St Alban's parkrun, being partly on the grounds of an old golf course, being two laps around quite a wide area of park and taking in different types of surface. But there was two factors that I hadn't considered, one was the weather and two was the time of year. Parkrun events around the country have lots to contend with. Landowners who use their land for multiple different purposes, particularly council owned spaces like public parks whose grounds are used for all types of purposes. St Albans is partly in the grounds of Verulamium Park which was being used as for the towns firework celebration which took place on the 30th October and we're still taking down the last remnants...