Day 17 - parkrun day!

Before we arrived at this site, I’d had a look and mentioned to Charlie there’s a parkrun less than 30 mins away. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to go for a nice, flat run so we made plans to head over to Hockgraben parkrun. We checked out the parking situation days ago, so last night in preparation we just did a double check on Google maps, and what do we see..:.. a 1.8m height restriction and we are almost 3m. We messaged the parkrun team who were super helpful and suggested a side road we should be ok to park on. Alarms went off at 5:45 (shock to the system!), Marla had an early breakfast and we packed the van up and off we went. The site owner flagged us down as we got to the exit, he bought our bread rolls to us so they wouldn’t have to sit around on our pitch waiting for us. Very kind of him. We found the area easily enough, and did find a space but there were a lot of signs about limited and restricted parking, with signs that you will be towed away. We couldn’t see anything else suitable so left the van and hopped over to the start to check with the RD - they said it should be fine…
The volunteers were all very nice welcoming, the pre event brief was held in German then English by the Canadian RD, Gina. 3, 2, 1 and we were off. Charlie ran with Marla (handheld lead only) and I ran on my own - and I really was on my own. There was only 39 participants and finish times ranged from 20 mins to 50 mins, so we were al spread out. Charlie and Marla came 4th in just over 21 mins and I came 31st in 35 mins.
We made a quick get away once I finished just in case there was any issue with where the van was parked, thankfully all fine!
One cool thing we’ve noticed in Germany is they have some bridges they’ve built just for animals to cross, they look absolutely beautiful. Charlie managed to snap a photo as we went under one.
Back to camp for showers and do a load of washing, then the rest of the afternoon was spent hiding from the sun - it’s boiling here! Marla enjoyed laying in the road in front of our pitch and sunbathing.
Dinner tonight was supposed to have been a curry, but it was far too hot for that so we had some veggie bratwurst that I’d picked up.
We’ve packed up most the van stuff tonight ready to move camp tomorrow.Leggi altro